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Agric & Biotech

RDI, groups petition World Bank to stop financing factory farming projects

The Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI) has delivered a letter to the World Bank Group at its Lagos office urging its executive directors to end...
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Climate Change

World Bank, IMF deepen efforts to scale up climate action

The World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will deepen cooperation to help countries scale up action to confront the threat...
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Climate Change

COP28: World Bank strengthens commitment on financial ambition to drive climate action

The World Bank Group says it is helping people in developing countries better withstand the devastation of climate change and create a better world...
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Climate Change

MDBs deliver record $60bn climate finance for low and middle-income economies in 2022

Climate finance by Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) for low-income and middle-income economies reached a new record of $60.7 billion in 2022, up 46 percent...
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World Bank, IMF meetings: 10 MDBs commit to boost climate action

As the World Bank and IMF annual meetings ended in Marrakech, Morocco, on Sunday, October 14, 2023, no fewer than 10 Multilateral Development Banks...
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Key expectations as Marrakech hosts World Bank, IMF annual meetings

As the Moroccan city of Marrakech prepares to host the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from October 9 to 15,...
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Water & Sanitation

CSOs seek inclusion in $700m World Bank water, sanitation programme

The Society for Water and Sanitation (NEWSAN) has called for the inclusion of its members in the implementation of the $700 million World Bank-funded...
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Climate Change

Africa’s growth remains low, transition to low carbon economies needed – World Bank

A new World Bank report says economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is set to slow from 3.6 per cent in 2022 to 3.1...
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Cross River Assembly passes open defecation prohibition bill, Lagos apprehends five offenders

The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed a bill prohibiting open defecation. The bill aims to outlaw open...
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Human Settlement

Lagos launches online system for building permit

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has launched an electronic system that will simplify the process of obtaining physical...
Conservation

Nigeria committed to sustainability of biosphere reserves, ecological research – FRIN DG

Director-General, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), Prof. Zacharia Yaduma, says Nigeria is strengthening policy and legal frameworks to...

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Pollution

Cross River Assembly passes open defecation prohibition bill, Lagos apprehends five offenders

The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed...
Human Settlement

Lagos launches online system for building permit

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has launched an...