An estimated seven million people die every year from indoor and outdoor air pollution. That’s more than died from Covid-19 over the last two years. Often invisible, air pollution receives little attention compared with other public health emergencies, but the threats to health are every bit as real
NGO sensitises inmates to fundamental human rights, freedom Rights
Fabian Ekeruche Headfort Foundation, an NGO, has sensitised the inmates of Oregun Boys Special Correctional Centre to their fundamental human rights, privileges and freedom before the law. Mrs Oluyemi Orija, Executive Director of the Foundation, stated this while speaking with…
FAO welcomes $83 million USA contribution to emergency and resilience programmes
Funding to boost efforts in Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Sudan; Sahel and Coastal West Africa also among the list of recipients The USA funds will be used to supply aid and technical assistance to smallholder farmers and livestock-dependent communities. The Food…
PACJA submits input into CBD Framework
The Chair of Technical and Political Committee of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance was early Thursday invited to give a CSOs view on the a post-2020 biodiversity framework At a meeting in in Libreville, Gabon, Dr Augustine Ndjamnshi joined…
Climate Resilience Agriculture: CFM Seeds for the Future Transformative Impacts Highlighted
The Seeds for Future programme, a signature value chain development initiative of Crown Flour Mill (CFM) Limited, a top flour-milling firm and subsidiary of Olam Agri, has been showcased as one of the innovative solutions to food security and climate…
Hydrogen as the Future of Clean Energy
Is Hydrogen The Next Big Thing? Time flies. It’s been six years since we reported on the introduction of Toyota’s hydrogen-powered passenger car, the Murai. A lot’s happened since 2015, and for most of us, we’d probably assume that the…
Groundbreaking water management digital tool gets global boost
Support from the Netherlands allows FAO’s WaPOR portal to expand geographical coverage An innovative water management tool will expand to become available around the world thanks to a contribution from the Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Netherlands to the Food…
Adamawa confirms 11 cases of Cholera
The Adamawa State Ministry of health has confirmed 11 cases of cholera disease in Guyuk and Shelleng local government areas of the state. This was contained in a statement signed by Dr Celine Laori, Director, Public Health in the ministry…
Environmental crisis: Organisations call for urgent intervention
The Global Initiative for Food Security Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP), Coal Free Nigeria and 350Africa.org on Wednesday, called for urgent intervention to mitigate environmental crisis across the country. The Executive Director of GIFSEP, Mr Michael Terungwa, made the call at a…