The newly appointed Minister of State for the Environment, Mr Udi Udom, has expressed his commitment to contribute to the on-going efforts to secure a quality environment. Udom said that environmental issues deserved a prominent response in national development,…
Stakeholders Set To Hold Policy Dialogue To Strengthen Nigeria’s Health Security
By Sylvester Onoghase Against the backdrop of how countries including Nigeria were particularly affected and caught unprepared for a pandemic of the speed and scale witnessed by the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the leading advocacy health platform, Nigeria Health Watch,…
SPP, CCCD, GECCI To Engage Civil Society Leaders On Climate Change Law
The Society for Planet Prosperity (SPP), in collaboration with the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike (AE-FUNAI) Centre for Climate Change and Development (CCCD) and Global Environmental and Climate Conservation Initiative (GECCI), is hosting a virtual workshop for stakeholders in…
Abuja’s State High Court halts Seplat Energy’s acquisition of Mobil Producing Nigeria
Last week, the State High Court of the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja made an ex-parte order of interim injunction restraining Mobil Producing Nigeria and its shareholders from completing the Share Sale and Purchase Agreement previously signed with Seplat Energy. In February…
Decongesting Nigerian Correctional Facilities through Technology
The Nigerian Correctional centres are currently overcrowded with unconvicted inmates occupying 73% of the facilities. In this Solutions Journalism piece, BLESSING OLADUNJOYE unravels how Headfort Foundation has been deploying technology to decongest the correctional centres by securing the release of…
Partnerships: Impacting Africa beyond COVID-19 pandemic to achieve SDGs
By Fabian Ekeruche, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) When the United Nations (UN) adopted the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) in 2015, it did not prefigure that a devastating COVID-19 pandemic will emerge few years later to become a clog in the…
Group calls on stakeholders to embrace climate-smart agriculture
The Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG) has called on stakeholders in the agricultural sector to reduce climate change impact on agribusiness with climate -smart agriculture (CSA) approach. CSA is regarded as an approach for transforming and reorienting agricultural development under the…
National Youth Council to Partner Asteven Energy Institute, BlueCamel to Empower Youths On Renewable Energy
In the bid to empower Nigerian youths and deepen access to renewable energy across the country, Asteven Group and Bluecamel Ltd, has rolled out a nationwide training programme for youths across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)…
Africa and Nigeria must wake up to emerging technologies.
Emerging technologies in the areas of genomics, artificial intelligence, automaton, and block chains are driving new forms of extraction and re-ordering African society, economics and ecosystems with similar disruptive shocks to previous colonization waves. Due to the weak or no…
Ricoh rewards innovation: High school student awarded scholarship for invention to strengthen clean water access
17th annual Ricoh Sustainable Development Award winner recognized for water purification systems made from local plants Ricoh USA, Inc. today announced Muhil Thendral of Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Md. is the winner of the 17th annual Ricoh Sustainable Development Award (RSDA) presented at…