By Dare Akogun An initiative launched in 2018 by Boehringer Ingelheim, LastMile, in partnership with the Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has reached over 40,000 smallholder farmers in six African countries on access to veterinary medicine and prevention of animal diseases. The initiative aims to bridge the gap
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By Dare Akogun Ecobank Nigeria Limited has revealed that it has entered into a partnership with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA, to train and provide support services to about 16,000 Nigerian youths on wealth creation through agriculture. The bank said in a statement that the training was targeted at young Nigerians between the ages of 18 and 40
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By Toyin Ayinde The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board has appointed Mafalda Duarte as its new Executive Director. According to a statement announcing the appointment, the decision was reached following an extensive global recruitment process the Board made the selection during its thirty-fifth meeting at the GCF headquarters in Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea. Mafalda Duarte has been the Chief
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By Toyin Ayinde The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has finally broken its silence saying the old N200, N500, and N1,000 banknotes remain legal tender till December 31, 2023. The apex bank’s Acting Director of Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin disclosed this in a statement on Monday. This is coming 10 days after the Supreme Court ruled that old naira notes
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By Dare Akogun The International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD has stated that the Africa continent needs a cumulative sum of $614bn by 2030 to address its rising challenge of food insecurity and transform the food system. The Associate Vice President for External Relations and Governance, IFAD, Satu Santala, gave the inddication in a recent report titled “Financing
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By Dare Akogun The World Bank has donated an estimated $12bn, almost half of which was disbursed to Africa, to help the recipient countries deal with food shortages. In a recent study titled “Food Security Update | World Bank Response to Increasing Food Insecurity,” the bank noted that domestic food costs remained high across the world, particularly in low and
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By Toyin Ayinde The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, has said that more than 25 million Nigerians will likely face acute food insecurity this year, higher than the 19.5 million projected for last year. The organization also said the impact will be most felt between June and August and will be caused by continuing conflict in northern regions
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By Dare Akogun The Central Bank of Nigeria has said that the total loan repayments under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) stood at 52 percent in February. The CBN was speaking in reaction to a report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which claimed that only 24 percent of loans disbursed under the ABP had been repaid. In its recent
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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.
