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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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 rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. According to the report, the combined climate pledges of 193 Parties under the Paris Agreement could put
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From Dare Akogun, Egypt Two reports by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have warned that a narrow window of eight years is left to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. The reports are the Emissions Gap Report and the Adaptation Gap Report, where Unep says COP27 must be the place and now must be the time for Member States
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As the world prepares for another United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 27, to be hosted by Egypt in November experts looking at Africa to provide possible solutions to the climate crises. Nigeria, the self-styled giant of Africa is leading the way with the launch of Nigeria’s Energy Transition Plan, a roadmap to tackle the dual crises of energy poverty
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From Dare Akogun, Egypt Countries aorund the world launch a package of 25 new collaborative actions to be delivered by COP28 to speed up the decarbonisation under five key breakthroughs of power, road transport, steel, hydrogen and agriculture. Historic support by three COP Presidencies for COP26, COP27 and COP28 drives forward implementation from Glasgow to Sharm El Sheik and into
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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.
