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Post-2015 MDGs amid housing, urban development outlook

With less than two years to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline in 2015, the United Nations, state parties and partners have been collaborating...

Michael Simire - February 28, 2013

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Community participation as a way out for Makoko

Makoko is a slum settlement that is home to fishermen and other low income earners, which the authorities see as a blot on the...

Michael Simire - February 25, 2013

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Forced migration: Concern over displaced persons’ status

Makoko community is a clustered community of mainly fishermen and artisans that live on the shores of the Lagos Lagoon. With population explosion in Lagos,...

Michael Simire - February 20, 2013

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Ogoni and the agony of a delayed clean up

When the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on the assessment of the Ogoni environment was released in August 2011, the world was astounded...

Michael Simire - February 12, 2013

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Oil spill: Nigeria at threshold of new era

The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) was established by Act No. 15 of 2006 as a deliberate and articulate response by...

Michael Simire - February 7, 2013

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Activists list blemishes of Biosafety Bill

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), who recently took a look at the current National Biosafety Agency (Establishment) Bill of 2010, have warned that the Nigerian...

Michael Simire - January 30, 2013

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Ogar: Ekuri Community is languishing

Against the backdrop of the Equator Prize bestowed on it by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Ekuri Initiative has lamented that the...

Michael Simire - January 25, 2013

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UN decorates Smallholders Foundation, Ekuri Initiative for providing sustainable solutions

A couple of endeavours aimed at providing sustainable solutions to local people in Nigeria have become a shining light in the annals of the...

Michael Simire - January 18, 2013

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