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World Rivers Day: Don urges legislation against water pollution

Head of Department Geography, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Prof. Sheik Abubakar, has called on the National Assembly for a legislation to  prosecute any person...

Oyo warns communities against drinking from contaminated streams

Oyo State Government has warned residents of five communities in Oke-Ogun area of the state against drinking water from the contaminated streams in their localities. Mr...

Stakeholders raise alarm over pollution of Osun River by artisanal miners

An NGO, Urban Alert, and other stakeholders in environmental sector on Friday, September 2, 2022, expressed concern over the pollution of Osun River by...

Reps call for independent evaluation of Lagos underground water pollution

Respite may be on the way for residents of Akoka in Lagos as the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has called for...

Africa, Asia, Latin America face health risk from water pollution

Water pollution has risen across three continents, placing hundreds of millions of people at risk of contracting life-threatening diseases like cholera and typhoid, the...

Scientist decries Petronas’ activities in South Sudan

“Horrifying.” “Scandalous.” Those were the responses by Professor Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker to the situation in South Sudan and to the alleged role played by Petronas, the...

How Michigan’s Flint River is poisoning the city’s residents

To date, over 25,000 children in Flint, Michigan, have been exposed to lead contamination from the city’s water supply. How did the water get...

Who will clean up Abidjan’s Ebrie Lagoon?

Abdulahi Traore, a fisherman, scouts the Ebire Lagoon that windless December morning, a forlorn look on his aging face. It’s about 10am in the...

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Renaissance Africa Energy welcomed to oil & gas standards body, IOGP

Nigeria’s Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited has become the third Nigerian company and the fourth in Africa to be...
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Group plans dialogue to fast-track APC’s climate goals

Environmental rights activists today think that citizens' participation in political activities is one of the finest methods to translate...

Health reform aimed at saving lives, reducing pains – Pate

The Minister of Health, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, says the ongoing health reform in Nigeria is designed to save...

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Renaissance Africa Energy welcomed to oil & gas standards body, IOGP

Nigeria’s Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited has become the...

Group plans dialogue to fast-track APC’s climate goals

Environmental rights activists today think that citizens' participation in...
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