The Kwara State Government has restated its commitment to promoting safe mining practices in the state and ensuring the well-being of workers in the mining sector. General Manager, of Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency, Alhaji Saad Ayuba Dan-Musa indicated during the agency’s visit to the China Kaidi Quarry site, along Eiyenkorin-Ogbomoso Road, Ilorin. The General Manager, who said
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“Every person on Earth today is living in a crime scene,” Covering Climate Now’s executive director Mark Hertsgaard wrote in 2021 at the launch of the Guardian’s “Climate Crimes” reporting series. “The fossil fuel industry’s 40 years of lying about climate change,” he added, “have… blunt[ed] public awareness and governmental action against what scientists say is now a full-fledged
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United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has called on the international community to cooperate towards tackling climate change in spite of existing geopolitical divisions. Guterres made the appeal on Tuesday in a video message to the Petersburg Dialogue held in Berlin, as the environmental situation and rising global temperatures may surge by 2.8 degrees Celsius (over 5 degrees Fahrenheit) by
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UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for the COP28 Presidency, Razan Al Mubarak, has underlined the significant work non-party stakeholders are doing to accelerate progress towards a net zero and resilient world by 2050. Speaking during her opening address to government Ministers and representatives at the 14th Petersberg Climate Dialogue held in Berlin, Ms. Al Mubarak outlined the ambitious vision
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The President-Designate of the 28th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Dr Sultan Al Jaber, has called for climate actions that tailored towards 2030 targets. He made the call on Tuesday May 2, 2023, at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, where he presented
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The vice-president-elect and former governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima has claimed that the first person to have a woman as deputy governor and also appoint a woman as a chief justice of a state is the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In a report by the News Agency Nigeria, Shettima made the claim on Saturday, April 29 in Abuja
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President Muhammadu Buhari at the Unveiling and Presentation of New Colours ceremony of the Nigeria Army’s held on April 27, 2023, made several claims regarding Nigeria’s army progress under his administration which began in 2015. The president in a thread post tweeted on his Twitter handle on Saturday, April 27, 2023, claimed more than 60,000 soldiers have been recruited
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Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has approved the termination of the appointment of the Project Coordinator of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, Dr Giadom Dumbari. He also approved the appointment of Professor Nanibarini Zabbey as the new HYREP Chief. The news of the changes was announced on the official Twitter handle of the Nigerian Presidency, @NGRPresident, which announced the change
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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.
