Nigeria’s elephant population has fallen to an estimated 400 animals in the wild, placing one of Africa’s most important ecosystem engineers at growing risk from habitat loss, illegal ivory trade, human-wildlife conflict and insecurity, conservationists have warned. The warning came ahead of World Elephant Day, marked annually on August 12, during a virtual media engagement organised by Wild Africa and
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FactCheckAfrica (FCA), with support from the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) Sustainability Grant, has organised an election information integrity workshop to equip journalists, newsroom editors, bloggers and other information stakeholders with the skills to identify, verify and counter information disorder ahead of the 2026 Osun State governorship election. The one-day workshop, themed “Preparing Osun Citizens and Information Stakeholders: Gathering 70 Newsroom
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Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre and Africa’s fastest-growing megacity, generates thousands of tonnes of municipal solid waste every day. Managing this enormous volume of waste requires more than routine collection; it depends on resilient infrastructure capable of ensuring that refuse moves efficiently from neighbourhoods to treatment, recycling and disposal facilities. Recognising this challenge, Zoomlion Nigeria Limited has intensified its collaboration
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For six weeks after returning from the 2026 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, I struggled to write about the experience. It was not because there was nothing to say. Quite the opposite. There was simply too much. Cannes Lions is often described as the Olympics of creativity, but for anyone experiencing it for the first time, it is something
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Zoomlion Nigeria Limited has completed the rehabilitation of the 1.2-kilometre access road to the Olusosun Disposal Facility in Lagos, a move expected to improve waste evacuation operations and reduce truck congestion at the state’s largest landfill. The project, completed in 26 days, was unveiled during a close-out ceremony attended by government officials, environmental stakeholders, waste management operators, civil society organisations
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Countries that are parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity have begun a two-week meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, to review the first global assessment of progress towards the 23 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The meeting is expected to examine the progress made halfway into the implementation of the historic biodiversity framework adopted in 2022, while negotiating recommendations
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Nigeria has emerged as one of the leading markets for small-scale solar investment in Sub-Saharan Africa as rising electricity prices and unreliable power supply drive households and businesses towards renewable energy solutions, a new report by BloombergNEF has revealed. The report, released on Wednesday, analysed clean energy developments across 16 Sub-Saharan African markets. The report, titled ‘Sub-Saharan Africa Clean Energy
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A climate expert and member of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Dr Parvana Valiyeva, has warned that the deadly heatwaves that swept across Europe in June and early July underscore the escalating human cost of climate change, calling for urgent investments in climate adaptation and stronger efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking in an interview with
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The UN humanitarian agencies have said that no fewer than 60 million people in the Horn of Africa were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) incident manager
Nuclear power is a solution to climate change because it is the largest source of low-carbon energy that produces minimal greenhouse gas emissions and can help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide
As part of it’s aim at cutting down greenhouse gases and replacing it with cleaner sources of energy, the governor of Lagos State South West Nigeria Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced the arrival
Adetokunbo Abiola Methane continued its upwards emissions spiral, as it recorded its fourth highest annual increase in 2022, rising by 14 parts per billion to 1,911.9 ppb in the past year, faster
The value of Nigerian soya beans in the global market has reached N462.2 billion ($ 1.18 billion) due to huge production which has led to the exportation of the according to recent
A new report from the UN Climate Change shows that countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward but underlines that these efforts remain insufficient to limit global temperature
Dare Akogun is a media innovator, strategic communication professional, and climate and energy transition journalist with over 11 years of impactful contributions to the media industry.
