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Cross River lawmakers ask govt to lift ban on logging

Cross River State lawmakers have called on the state government to, as a matter of urgency, lift the embargo on logging to usher in...

Deforestation: Adamawa bans indiscriminate cutting of trees

Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa has banned indiscriminate cutting of trees for charcoal production to avert deforestation in the state. Fintiri announced the ban when...

Desertification and Drought Day: 40% of planet’s land degraded – UN chief

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, says up to 40 per cent of the planet’s land is degraded thereby endangering food production, threatening biodiversity...

Charcoal producers pledge to address high forests deficit in Nigeria

The National Association of Charcoal Producers, Dealers, Exporters and Afforestation of Nigeria (NACPDEAN) says it is committed to sustainable forest development that would address...

Reps task govt agencies on erosion in Enugu north

The House of Representatives has urged the Ministry of Works and Housing to complete the reconstruction work on the Ugwuonyeama 9th Mile Road, to...

Cross River governor-elect urged to tackle deforestation

Environmental and ecology group, We The People, has charged the governor-elect of Cross River State, Senator Prince Bassey Otu, to take the issue of...

28 CSOs, Cross River community petition govt, UN over illegal logging

Worried over incessant deforestation due to illegal logging activities in Ekuri forest in Cross River State, 28 civil society organisations (CSOs) and members of...

Earth Day: Soludo, experts parley over continuous loss of Anambra landmass to erosion

The environmental disaster bedeviling Anambra and the need to address it was the crux of the matter at a town-hall meeting held in celebration...

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Concern as COP29 fails to deliver sufficient climate finance for developing countries

The UN climate talks ended on Saturday night in Baku, Azerbaijan, following two weeks of intense negotiations, whose primary...
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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...

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...

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Concern as COP29 fails to deliver sufficient climate finance for developing countries

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