Environment
1 Aug 2016
The Aichi Biodiversity Targets are part of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, an overarching framework to protect biodiversity and enhance its benefits for people, approved by governments in 2010...
18 Jul 2016
The intrigues that have characterized a devastating outbreak of lead poison that killed 28 children and left over 300 hundred others with high level contaminants ...
18 Jul 2016
Plans are now underway to implement the Paris accord and Nigeria’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), as the federal authorities have began moves...
18 Jul 2016
Given the media’s pivotal role in the society, a Non-Government Organisation (NGO), Coastal Cities at Risk (CCaR) Project is seeking effective communication and agenda ...
18 Jul 2016
The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) and the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) have signed ...
18 Jul 2016
In recognition of its role, the federal government has resuscitated the environmental health officers through sanitary inspectors who would make the enforcement...
18 Jul 2016
With several houses already swallowed by erosion, the House of Representatives has enjoined the authorities to tackle the menace of gully erosion bedevilling Ankpa local council of Kogi State.
11 Jul 2016
Concerned that recurring ocean surge and coastal erosion is threatening several coastal communities in the Niger Delta, Environmental Rights Action (ERA), has raised alarm on the imminent extinction facing the people.
11 Jul 2016
Environmental and health issues have been a major challenge in the state, following Boko Haram insurgency in the state.
11 Jul 2016
In a move to ensure more meaningful environmental compliance monitoring and enforcement, the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has partnered the Nigeria Police force in the training of officers.
11 Jul 2016
Stirred by the need to improve Nigeria’s prospects for sustained growth and development, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has selected seven States for its project, which will improve food insecurity in the country.
11 Jul 2016
The stakeholders’ position was encapsulated in a communiqué issued at the end of a recent Stakeholders’ forum on Phasing Down of Amalgam-The Alternatives in Nigeria held at Old Great hall, University of Lagos, Lagos.
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Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, has cancelled a concert in Morocco to mourn last week's tragedy on the border of Spain's Melilla enclave in which at least 23 African migrants died. Saxophonist and singer Kuti had been set to play on Saturday at the Jazzablanca festival in the Moroccan port city of…
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Inter Milan have signed former Borussia Dortmund attacker Henrikh Mkhitaryan from league rivals AS Roma, the Italian Serie A runners-up confirmed on Saturday. The 33-year-old Armenian Mkhitaryan has signed a two-year deal to 2024, according to media reports, after leaving Europa Conference League champions Roma on a free transfer. Mkhitaryan played from 2013 to 2016 for…