Monthly Archives: August, 2018

Business

Shell boss calls for diversification roadmap

The Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo), Bayo Ojulari, has harped on economic diversification as a panacea for job creation...

admin - August 15, 2018

Cover

Nigeria: From fossil fuel to a sustainable future economic model

While the industrial revolution raised the standard of living for Western states as early as the 1920s, Nigeria’s discovery of crude oil was not...

admin - August 15, 2018

Agric & Biotech

Global tree cover increasing, study finds

A team of researchers from the University of Maryland, the State University of New York and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre has found that...

admin - August 15, 2018

Cover

GOCOP, CPJ demand immediate release of Premium Times journalist

The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has demanded the immediate release of Premium Times Security Reporter, Samuel Ogundipe, detained by the Nigeria Police...

admin - August 15, 2018

TV Reports

Video: Why is California always on fire?

Wildfires are intensifying in California – but “wild” fires might be a misnomer at this point, because humans are responsible for why they’ve gotten...

admin - August 15, 2018

Cover

Sokoto to plant 100,000 economic trees

Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 flagged off planting of 100,000 varieties of economic trees across locations of the...

admin - August 14, 2018

Health

Bloomberg launches $20m global tobacco industry watchdog

Global health organisation, Vital Strategies, on Monday, August 13, 2018 congratulated Bloomberg Philanthropies on the launch of its new $20 million global tobacco industry watchdog, STOP (Stopping...

admin - August 14, 2018

Climate Change