In South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, livestock equals livelihoods. Here, animals are valuable currency. However, owning livestock is not easy, as the Toposa community of Kapoeta, Eastern Equatoria reveals to visiting peacekeepers from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan…
Nigeria: Stakeholders endorse African Development Bank country strategy, urge greater engagement with Diaspora
Representatives of Nigeria’s Diaspora, national networks, and youth and women groups have hailed the African Development Bank for supporting transformational projects in the country and across Africa. The African Development Bank forum, which took place in early August, is part…
Osinbajo Launches Energy Transition Plan; Says Nigeria needs $10 Billion a year to attain development ambitions
* $410 Billion to deliver Energy Transtion by 2060 * Complementary Launch of Universal Energy Grant Facility * Solar Companies urged to participate Nigeria’s Vice President, His Excellency, Prof Yemi Osinbajo is leading efforts towards an energy and development…
Kano CARES project distributes solar-powered water pumps to farmers
The Covid-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (CARES) programme, a Word Bank assisted-project, has bought solar-powered water pumps, worth N33 million, for distribution to farmers in Kano State. The project’s Technical Officer, Mr Nasidi Datti, disclosed this on Sunday in Chidari, Makoda Local Government Area…
African nations meet on ‘critical’ nature conservation
Delegates from across Africa launched Monday in Rwanda the first continent-wide gathering about the role of protected areas in ensuring the future of our planet. The IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) is being held just a few months before…
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…
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…
NCF Engage Stakeholders on Sustainable Land Uses to Protect Kainji Lake National Park
The decline of species within protected areas have prompted the need to pursue species conservation and protection with the consideration of both the protected areas and the surrounding communities. This informed the decision of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) to…
