The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has advised residents of riverine and flood-prone communities across the country should relocate to higher grounds before flooding starts this year. Nigeria experienced intense flooding in 2022, which caused loss of life, displacement of people, and extensive destruction of houses, farmlands, and infrastructures. The disaster affected over 2.8 million people across 34 states, leading
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Health and environmental advocates today called on communities, school boards and governments at every level to accelerate the electrification of school buses, replacing tens of thousands of diesel-powered school buses spewing toxic fumes that can seriously harm child health and interfere with learning. Led by the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE), a coalition of 34 organisations made
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An increase in Nigeria’s local rice production has led to a drop in foreign rice importation from 1.2 million metric tons in 2014 to 438 tons in 2022. Andy Ekwelem, the Director-General of the Rice Processors Association of Nigeria, RIPAN, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him, over 100 large-scale integrated rice processing facilities are domiciled in
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development said it has directly invested $604.6 million in Nigeria’s agricultural sector through domestic and international co-financing from 2016 to 2023. It said that 5,144,805 persons across 28 states of the country benefitted from viable interventions initiated by the programme. The Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser, FGN/CPAT-Country Programme Advisory Team, Mr. Abdulhameed Girai, disclosed this on
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Some local and international organizations have expressed concerns over the menace of human trafficking and the plight of refugees across the globe, saying there is a need for concerted efforts by every stakeholder to check the growing trend. The concerned organizations include the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking
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Governor of Osun state, South Western Nigeria, Ademola Adeleke has approved a comprehensive climate change agenda to address emerging concerns about climate change and its impact on the state. The approval is contained in a statement by the spokesperson to the governor Malam Olawale Rasheed, on Saturday in Osogbo the state capital. According to the statement, the climate agenda is
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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 in 2020 by 15.20 ppb and 17.75 ppb in 2021, with humans having little control over ecosystems that emit methane due to global warming. Carbon dioxide emissions continued
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Relying on the provision of the Freedom of Information Act, a Kwara-based journalist Toyin Ayinde (not real name) who was writing a report on the school renovation project of the state government, had approached the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development to provide information on the actual contract sum, the identity of contractors, and the funds released for the
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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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