By Dare Akogun The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the governorship and state house of assembly elections scheduled for Saturday, March 11 by a week. The polls have now been rescheduled by one week to March 18, 2023. The news was contained in a statement signed the by the National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Commission
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By Dare Akogun The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), has thrown it’s support behind the second term bid of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq. The Vice President North Central Zone of the council Amb. Akoshile Mukhthar in a statement made available to newsmen today in Abuja it is throwing it’s weight behind Gov AbdulRazaq because of the unprecedented number of young
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By Dare Akogun The Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Sen. Gbemi Saraki, has debunked reports that she has joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Saraki, in a statement signed by her media consultant, Moses Bello, and made available to newsmen denied joining PDP and supporting its Kwara state gubernatorial candidate, Shuaib Yaman. Mr Bello further added
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By Dare Akogun The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has constituted a legal team led by Lateef Fagbemi and twelve other Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) to defend the victory of its candidate, Bola Tinubu, at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. This was disclosed in a statement posted on the party’s official Twitter handle on Tuesday, March 7. The team
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From Dare Akogun, Egypt Nigeria has secured a $2.4 million support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at the ongoing climate financing negotiation at COP27 taking place in Egypt. Minister for Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi disclosed this our Correspondent Dare Akogun on Wednesday in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, venue of the global climate change conference. He said the pledge was
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By Dare Akogun Stakeholders have called for development of priorities based on local peculiarities to tackle the menace of climate change in Nigeria. The call was made at a one day Interactive session tagged Post cop 27: Reflecting on Promises , Negotiation and the Way Forward, organised by the Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative, BBYDI, in Ilorin the Kwara State capital. The
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By Dare Akogun The launch today in New York of a 17-signature Ministerial Declaration calling for recognition of the Local Climate Responsive Living Fund as an existing Non-Commercial Approach under the Paris Agreement could, unlock significant additional climate finance for adaptation to the impacts of climate change. In the statement, made by some of the world’s most vulnerable nations to
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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 dynamic media innovator, strategic communication professional, and seasoned climate and environmental sustainability journalist with over 10 years of influential contributions to the media industry.
He Currently serving as the Head of Digital Media, Senior News Editor, and a presenter at Sobi FM 101.9, a leading radio station in Ilorin, Nigeria.
Dare is on a mission to leverage his media innovation expertise and project management skills to produce high-quality, accurate, and engaging content, while advocating for reduced fossil fuel consumption, especially coal, to combat effect of global warming.
He has covered comprehensively environmental issues and COP conferences, including COP28 in Dubai last year , COP 27 in Egypt, and the United Nations Least Developed Countries conference in Doha, in 2023.
He is a recipient of fellowship to be part of a 15 team of journalists selected worldwide to cover the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2024.
He has a Master's Degree in Mass Communication, from the University of Lagos, a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from the Lagos State University and also a
Certification in Business Administration and Management, from the Babson College, Massachusetts, United States of America.
