In the rural community of Likpata, located in Edu local government area of Kwara state North Central Nigeria, a massive healthcare center lies in ruins, a symbol of government negligence and failing infrastructure. The Likpata Primary Healthcare Center, which was built over three decades ago, was intended to provide essential healthcare services, serving as a beacon of hope for the
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World leaders have called for better land rights for women and girls around the world as women are facing worsening droughts, raging wildfires, and other climate change impacts. The call was made at an event to mark Desertification and Drought Day held at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, June 16, 2023, where drought, land degradation, and desertification which
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A leading non-governmental organization in Nigeria Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative, BBYDI, has taken the lead in addressing global environmental challenges by carrying out an enlightenment program on climate adaptation in Sentu community of Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara state. The NGO organized a one-day program that aimed to educate the community members on the importance of climate
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At the 58th session of the United Nations Subsidiary Bodies (SB58) conference closing today, the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN) says developing countries’ efforts on adaptation must be recognised in the outcome of the Global Stocktake. Speaking during the closing session of the technical dialogue of the Global Stocktake in Bonn, Germany, AGN Chair Ephraim Mwepya Shitima
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The Director General, Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), Akin Olateru, says 106 fatalities were recorded in the Kwara boat mishap that took place late Monday night. The DG who made this disclosure during a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday, June 15, revealed that a total of 144 passengers were rescued. He stated that the NSIB is currently carrying out
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UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell has said that there are bridges to be built to realize the common ground that exists in the world as the Bonn Climate Change Conference closed today after two weeks of intense work that made progress on several critical issues. He spoke at the closing session of the conference which is organised to
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It has been almost ten days into the 2023 Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB58) yet progress on nearly all priority areas of negotiations is yet to be recorded. The midyear climate talks represent an important milestone on the road to the 28th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC -COP28) in Dubai, this December.
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The high death rate in the early Monday morning boat mishap in the Patigi local government area of Kwara state has been attributed to the negative attitude of people of the area toward the use of life jackets whenever they travel by water. Speaking at the inauguration of the 2023 subsidized fertilizers programme by the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development
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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
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