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31 Oct 2022
On May 25, 2015, l gave a keynote address titled ECOWAS at 40: The Driving Philosophy Of Multinationalism. It was on the occasion of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the creation of ECOWAS under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
14 Oct 2022
A new report from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), released yesterday, has warned that half of the world’s countries..
18 Jul 2022
In the face of mounting apprehension among residents over the consequences of flooding in several cities, especially Lagos, town planners, architects and state officials have weighed in to examine the effect on properties...
21 Apr 2021
The Earth’s temperature has continued to rise unabated, with 2020 being one of the three warmest years on record. Extreme weather events combine with COVID-19 pandemic to negatively impact millions of people.
11 Jan 2021
As 2020 ends, it leaves in its wake the warmest decade on record and one of the three hottest years ever measured, according to the UN weather agency.
30 Dec 2019
To mitigate the negative impact of continuous hotness of weather on biodiversity survival, environmentalists have advocated planting of provenance trees, criminalization of indiscriminate tree felling as well as effective design of urban.
11 Dec 2019
The United Nations Climate Change Conference commenced yesterday with a charge that the international community should tackle the climate crisis, change course and step up ambition to prevent the worst climate impacts.
4 Dec 2019
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has urged urgent action on climate change as the year 2019 concludes a decade of exceptional global heat, retreating ice and record...
18 Feb 2019
In a clear sign of continuing long-term climate change associated with record atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 have been confirmed as the four warmest years on record.
12 Feb 2018
The upward trend in global temperatures marked by record-shattering warmth in 2015 and 2016 kept pace last year, with the United Nations weather agency warning that continued pressure..
6 Nov 2017
UN says year 2017 is among the three hottest years on record in a new sign of man-made climate change that is aggravating “extraordinary weather” such as hurricanes, droughts and floods.
9 Jun 2017
Prof. Sani Mashi, Director-General, Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), said the agency has concluded all necessary details with the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) on its MobileMet as a frequency has been allocate to it.
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