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Agency warns that desertification may engulf Nigeria

The Director General, National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW), Mr Goni Ahmed, says desertification, if not tackled, will spread across the nation. Ahmed...

admin - May 18, 2018

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Lava threatens Hawaii exit routes, could spur more evacuations

Lava flowing from giant rips in the earth on the flank of Hawaii’s erupting Kilauea volcano threatens highways. The threat raises the possibility that officials...

admin - May 15, 2018

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Global economy will lose $23t to land degradation by 2050 – UNCCD

The global economy will lose a whopping $23 trillion by 2050 through land degradation, a review by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification...

admin - May 10, 2018

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Erosion: Communities want Buhari to declare state of emergency in Anambra

The people of Orumba North and Orumba South in Anambra State have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency to the...

admin - April 21, 2018

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Ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss cause of farmers-herders clash

The President, Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE), Nigerian Chapter, Sen. Bukar Ibrahim, said ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss were part of...

admin - April 21, 2018

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Meteorologist urges solution to desertification in the north

The President of Nigerian Meteorological Society (NMetS), Prof. Clement Akosile, said on Thursday, April 19, 2018 that the country needed to aggressively address the...

admin - April 19, 2018

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Group vows to resist proposed prison, cemetery in Ogoniland

The Ogoni Rights Advocates (ORA) is peeved that the Federal Government is contemplating building a massive prison and cemetery in Ogoniland, instead of the...

admin - April 8, 2018

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Ahead rainy season, Akwa Ibom begins flood control intervention

The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Environment and Mineral Resources, Dr Iniobong Essien, has said that government has embarked on various flood control intervention...

admin - March 29, 2018

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