A battery minerals industry is set to take off in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after a series of firm commitments were sealed at a two-day business forum in DRC’s capital, Kinshasa. DRC government and development banks and partners sign battery council establishment deal during the forum. Photo credit: ECA The government of DRC and several development banks and ...

Director of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka-based Resource and Environmental Policy Research Centre – Environment for Development (REPRC-EfD Nigeria), Dr Nnaemeka Chukwuone, describes the signing of the Climate Change Act as a concrete step towards environmental sustainability as well as low-carbon climate-resilient development Dr Nnaemeka Chukwuone We noted with delight the signing of the Climate Change Bill by President Muhammadu ...

The Edo State Government on Thursday, November 25, 2021 took to some major streets in the Benin City and communities hosting the state’s forest reserves to sensitise the residents against illegal logging and bush burning. Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State The Acting Team leader, Edo State Oil Palm Programme Implementation Office, Mr Churchill Oboh, while addressing journalists in Benin ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it building trust among the Nigerian electorate which had almost lost hope in the country’s electoral processes. Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu With the latest experience where new technology adopted by the umpire has proved effective and discovered multiple registration in the Anambra gubernatorial elections, the agency has further reiterated ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has been admonished to earmark adequate and proper funding into waste management system so that the challenges of plastic pollution will be reduced to the barest minimum. Mr. Anthony Akpan, President of PAVE The Pan African Vision for the Environment (PAVE), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), made the call during a roundtable with newsmen in Lagos ...

The Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP), an NGO, has urged traditional and religious leaders to join in creating effective awareness on impact of climate change in the country. David Terungwa Mr David Terungwa, Executive Director of the NGO, made the call at a book launch and capacity building in schools on climate change on Thursday, November ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday, November 25, 2021 named newly completed 480housing units of LagosHOMS at Ibeshe in Ikorodu after B.O. Benson who passed on at the age of 89 in 2020. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State The Ikorodu-born Chief Babatunde Olusola Benson (B.O. Benson), former General Secretary and President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), ...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has called on African countries to have clear-cut policies that will address the funding gaps in the sanitation and hygiene sector. Nelson Gomonda Mr Nelson Gomonda, AfDB’s Rural Water and Sanitation expert, made this call at the ongoing virtual Africa Water and Sanitation Week on Thursday, November 25, 2021. Speaking on “Driving National Progress on ...

Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, on Wednesday, November 24, 2021, said the oil spill at Aiteo Eastern Exploration Company, in Basambri, Bayelsa State, would be speedily addressed. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva The minister made this known when he undertook an on-the-spot assessment of the oil spill site of the AITEO facility in ...

The Ijaw National Congress (INC) on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 berated Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company over alleged poor response to the Nov. 5 spill from its oilfields in Nembe, Bayelsa State. Prof. Benjamin Okaba, President of INC The group noted that it was wrong for Aiteo to attribute the wellhead leak within its oil bloc in the Nembe ...