Environment
9 May 2016
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has challenged countries to concrete action to actualize their commitments, saying “it is time to take climate action to the next level.”
9 May 2016
“The truck is the first of its kind in Nigeria, just a year old. It is a truck for all needs,” Mrs. Folashade Omotosho Head, Corporate Services of Globetech Remedial Nigeria Limited enthused.
2 May 2016
Twelve months after the Response Planning Development Committee on Outbreak of Lead Poisoning in Niger State submitted its report, a non-governmental organisation...
2 May 2016
A new dawn may be in offing for residents in federal government owned estates and establishments in Lagos as the state authorities have indicated interest to rehabilitate all the existing ...
25 Apr 2016
Anietie Akpan, Calabar
25 Apr 2016
In an extraordinary show of support for the Paris climate agreement adopted last December, 175 countries signed the Paris Agreement at a ceremony at UN Headquarters that far exceeded the historical record for...
25 Apr 2016
Ahead of the second United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-II in Nairobi, ministers of environment and representatives of over 45 African countries have agreed to accelerate action on issues ranging.....
18 Apr 2016
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has decided the strategy and timeline for its next series of reports, the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), and the special reports that will be prepared in the next few years.
18 Apr 2016
A new study released by researchers has alleged that dangerous toxic chemicals in cosmetics are widely used in salons and beauty parlours despite their attendant health effects in disruption of nervous...
18 Apr 2016
Concerned over environmental sustainability with regards to private commercialized dredging of the waterways, the Nigerian Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has read out the riot act to operators.
11 Apr 2016
A record number of countries are expected to sign the historic climate agreement adopted last December in Paris at a signing ceremony hosted by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on April 22.
4 Apr 2016
With sustainable conservation of forest ecosystems being undermined by social-cultural and economic factors, a university teacher, Prof. Gbadebo Osemeobo has urged the governments to adequately.
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