The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has advised Nigeria to recruit additional 70,000 midwives to reduce maternal and child mortality in the country. UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem, in a statement commemorating the 2023 International Day of the Midwife, said in addition to hiring more midwives, health authorities should allow them to be more involved in health care services. IDM
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Nigeria has reaffirmed its commitment to the Montreal Protocol and its Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) phase-out program. The country’s Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, made the submission in Lagos on Thursday, at the Stakeholder’s Inception Workshop for the Stage III of the Hydrochlorofluorocarbons Phaseout Management Plan (HPMP) project. He commended the efforts of the project implementing agencies, especially the
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The Livestock sub-sector has been identified for accounting for more than 40 percent of the global agricultural Gross Domestic Product. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Ernest Umakhihe made this known at the opening of training for farmers on the utilization of low-grade grains, however, noted that the utilization of the cheapest and most available livestock
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has disclosed that $190 million is required to provide lifesaving food and nutrition assistance to the most vulnerable people over the next six months. The body said if urgent action was not taken, four million people in the northeast would go without food assistance during the peak of the lean season. n a
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Civil society practitioners have described the two-day Petersberg Climate Dialogue concluded in Berlin as a key opportunity to set a framework for delivering a strong outcome from COP28. The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is convened by the German government to lay the groundwork ahead of the UN’s Climate Change Conference. Executive Director, Climate Action Network Tasneem Essop, said the event was
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A recent study published by the international development charity, Christian Aid, has highlighted the devastating economic impact climate change will inflict on Commonwealth countries. The report coming on the hills of the coronation of long-time environment campaigner King Charles III lays out the grim economic future facing Commonwealth countries and underlines the deep climate inequality within the bloc. The
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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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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
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