Kraton Corporation, a leading global sustainable producer of specialty polymers and high-value biobased products derived from pine wood pulping co-products, announces the release of its 2021 Sustainability Report. It highlights Kraton’s progress and approach to driving the integration of sustainability throughout the…
UNESCO-Huawei Technology-enabled Open Schools for All Project Progress Reviewed in Cross-country Seminar
A three-day cross-country seminar hosted in Accra, Ghana on the subject of the Technology-enabled Open Schools for All (TeOSS) project drew to a close on July 7. The project was put together to ensure the continuity and quality of learning under…
Dangote Cement plants 7,205 trees to commemorate 2022 World Environment Day
In its bid to promote environmental sustainability, Dangote Cement Plc has planted 7,205 trees across Africa to commemorate the 2022 Environmental Day. The company made the disclosure in a statement signed by Mr Francis Awowole-Browne, Media and Communication Personnel, Dangote…
National MSMEs award recipient seeks govt intervention
By Bashir Rabe Mani Dr Zayyanu Tanko, a winner of the National Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Award, has solicited for grants and soft loans from the Federal and State Governments. Tanko, who is also the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of…
Pan-African coalition ‘ll advance just energy transition — Osinbajo
By Chijioke Okoronkwo Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says a Pan-African position articulated and promoted by leaders of the continent on global Net-zero emissions target by 2050-2060, will further advance quest for a just energy transition. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in…
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…
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…
Environmental sustainability experts seek more effective policy on e-waste
Some environmental sustainability experts on Friday, July 1, 2022, urged governments to put in place efficient systems to enforce regulations that would eliminate e-waste in the country. The experts made the call at Students Sustainability and E-waste Awareness Programme (SEAP) held at the…
Asteven Energy Institute obtains approval to offer Diploma degree in Solar Energy Technology
To partner with Renewable Energy Associations in Nigeria First Innovation Enterprise Institute in Solar Energy Technology approved by NBTE To offer National Innovation Diploma degrees to Students The Asteven Energy Institute, a wholly owned indigenous subsidiary of the Asteven Energy…
