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Day becomes night as solar eclipse engulfs US

Day turned to night for two minutes on Monday, August 21, 2017 as the first solar eclipse in the US in nearly a century...

Why ‘Liveable Cities’ rankings are wrong

Joel Kotkin, presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University and executive editor of newgeography.com, in this article published in Forbes.com says that the ranking...

Court judgment on local govt election academic, says A’Ibom AG

The Akwa Ibom State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Uwemedimo Nwoko, has described as academic the judgment of the state High Court that...

Helmeted hornbill: Saving the bird that’s more valuable than ivory

The helmeted hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil) has been classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2015. The bird, which was once common on Sumatra,...

Charcoal merchants, ‘vultures’ of Nigerian forests

As human population continues to inch towards infinity, the energy needs of households for domestic heating have more than doubled over the last few...

With World Bank’s $300m, housing scheme plans to make every Nigerian a landlord

Shifting from the tradition of borrowing with collateral to fund housing, My Own Home scheme of the Federal Government, with a loan of $300...

Lagos is world’s second least liveable city, says report

Nigeria’s commercial capital city, Lagos, has been ranked second on the World’s Least Liveable Cities. War-torn Damascus in Syria takes the bottom spot, just below Lagos,...

China to launch carbon emissions market

China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) plans to establish a national carbon-trading system and launch a carbon emissions market this November, according to...

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Dangote Refinery to supply 65m litres of petrol daily

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Geoinformation society seeks govt support to boost women’s participation in geospatial technology

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