Yearly Archives: 2021

Agric & Biotech

Consistency of Plant Variety Protection Law with Constitution challenged in court

The Registered Trustees of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) have filed a suit challenging a provision of the Plant Variety Protection Act 2021...

Michael Simire - August 13, 2021

Pollution

UK’s £500m oceans protection scheme to tackle plastic pollution in Nigeria, Ghana, others

Projects to tackle climate change and protect the world’s oceans have been given a major boost with the first £16.2 million of funding from...

Michael Simire - August 13, 2021

Cover

Shell waking up to its culpability: Groups hail Ogoni community’s victory

News of the agreement by Shell to accept liability for longest drawn case concerning pollution in the Niger Delta appears to have been warmly...

Michael Simire - August 13, 2021

Water & Sanitation

Govt, Gombe sign MoU to revamp regional water supply project

Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, and the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on collaborative funding of...

Michael Simire - August 13, 2021

Conservation

World Elephant Day: Groups collaborate to boost conservation

On the 2021 World Elephant Day, the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) Foundation and the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) have announced...

Michael Simire - August 12, 2021

Human Settlement

Lagos halts illegal estate project on Ojota-Maryland wetland

The Lagos State Government says it has halted construction on buffer zone area of the Wasimi, Maryland section of Ojota-Maryland wetland being develop into...

Michael Simire - August 12, 2021

Climate Change

UN weather agency seeks to confirm 48.8°C ‘record’ heat spike in Sicily

UN weather experts said on Thursday, August 12, 2021 that they were actively looking into a possible record temperature for Continental Europe of 48.8...

Michael Simire - August 12, 2021

Health