International Oil Companies highlighted Mozambique as an attractive investment destination during the African Energy Chamber’s Invest in African Energies: Mozambique Roundtable in Maputo on Thursday Global energy major, ExxonMobil has invested over $20 million in Mozambique as part of its…
Youth Empowerment Necessary to Attain Economic Destiny –Entrepreneurs
Some entrepreneurs have advocated the support and empowerment of young people if Nigeria and Africa as a whole, want to rise up to attain their social, economic and political destiny. The entrepreneurs made the call at programme for young people…
LASG Charges Estate Facility Managers To Be Innovative, Proactive
The Lagos State Government has charged facility management organisations engaged in managing the Government-owned housing estates to be innovative and proactive in managing equipment and facilities of the State Government estates in their care. The Commissioner for Housing, Hon. Moruf…
Anambra Govt. Suspends Two Health Workers for Negligence, Absenteeism
The Anambra Government has suspended a health worker, Mrs Njideka Ezeihejiofor, for negligence and refusal to attend to a pregnant woman who delivered a stillborn baby outside the health facility on Tuesday. The suspension of Ezeihejiofor was approved on Friday…
Customs Boss Seeks Unity Among Freight Forwarding Associations, Maritime Media
The Comptroller- General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, has decried the proliferation of associations in the freight forwarding industry as well as the maritime Media. Adeniyi disclosed that discordant tunes from the freight forwarders made it difficult for…
Water Minister Calls for Stronger Collaboration with Mining and Geoscience Society
The Honourable Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof. Joseph Terlumun Utsev, FNSE, FNICE, have emphasized the vital link between mining and water resources, stressing the importance of geophysical research in projects like dam construction and irrigation. He also called…
LAWMA Warns Property Owners Against Illegal Recycling and Scavenging Activities
The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has issued a stern warning to property owners, agents and private occupiers in the state, to henceforth desist from illegal recycling and scavenging in unlicensed facilities. It also advised them to halt indiscriminate sorting,…
Lagos Water Transport Project ‘Omi Eko’ to Gulp €410m
The Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) says its ‘Omi Eko’ water transport project will gulp €410 million. The General Manager of LASWA, Mr Oluwadamilola Emmanuel, said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Lagos. Emmanuel said…
LWC, WaterAid Award Contract to Rehabilitate Akilo Waterworks
* 100,000 Residents to Gain Access to Potable Water Within Six Months In a groundbreaking move to improve water access in Lagos State, over 100,000 residents of Ifako Agege are set to have access to clean and potable water within…
Bridging the Divide: A Land Tenure Approach to Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflict across Africa
By Christopher Burke A smallholder farmer in western Uganda stands helplessly as a troop of chimpanzees raid his banana plantation. Similar conflicts are common across the continent: elephants trampling crops in Kenya, lions killing livestock in Namibia, chimpanzees in Guinea…