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Yearly Archives: 2012

Eleri: Govt funding of pro-poor energy access on the decline

According to Ewah Eleri, Executive Director, International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development (ICEED), the Financing Pro-poor Energy Access project that his organisation is involved in...

The HYPREP hype in Ogoniland UNEP report

Environment and social activist, Nnimmo Bassey, describes the formation by government of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project (HYPREP) towards the implementation of United Nations...

Professionals in fresh bid to address building collapse menace

By 3.00 am last Wednesday in Dutse Alhaji, a district of Abuja, it happened yet again. A building collapsed, albeit with fatalities. The unsuspecting victims...

Makoko: The tragedy, the intrigues

Environmental science writer, Tina Armstrong-Ogbonna, relates her experience as the controversial Makoko demolition saga unfolded in Lagos   I recently participated in the filming of a...

Mailafia grants Park Rangers paramilitary status

Nigeria's Minister of Environment, Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia, has said that all Park Rangers in National Parks nationwide will be upgraded to paramilitary status. She made...

UN endorses Rio+20 outcome document

The United Nations General Assembly, at its 66th session a week ago in New York, adopted a draft resolution by the President of the...

UNEP thumbs-up Nigerian govt’s stand on Ogoniland clean-up

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to proceed with a major oil contamination clean-up of Ogoniland in the...

Enhancing Nigeria’s response to climate change

Youthful Abuja-based Information Technology analyst and advocate for change, Hamzat Lawal, makes a case for the National Climate Change Commission, urging the Presidency to...

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Jigawa sends 30 technicians to China for agric mechanisation training

Governor Mallam Umar Namadi of Jigawa State has flagged off the departure of 30 newly recruited “master technicians” to...
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COP29: Giving entry to carbon markets makes dangerous step backward for climate justice – Campaigners

In what observers have described as a disappointing and dangerous outcome at the UN's climate change conference COP29, governments...

UK unveils £239m new funding to help forest-rich nations tackle climate change

The world’s forests will be better protected after support announced on Friday, November 22, 2024, by the UK to...

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Jigawa sends 30 technicians to China for agric mechanisation training

Governor Mallam Umar Namadi of Jigawa State has flagged...

COP29: Giving entry to carbon markets makes dangerous step backward for climate justice – Campaigners

In what observers have described as a disappointing and...
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