Human development report 2023/2024
After a drop in its Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2021 and following a flat trend over the past few years, India’s HDI value has increased to 0.644 in 2022, placing the country 134 out of 193
After a drop in its Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2021 and following a flat trend over the past few years, India’s HDI value has increased to 0.644 in 2022, placing the country 134 out of 193
The federal government has lamented loss of N455 billion annually to poor sanitation saying it is equivalent to 1.3 per cent of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP). Permanent secretary of the Federal
Rotary International and its affiliates in Abuja are to spend some N39.8 million (around $200,000) to provide water supply through 79 boreholes in impoverished communities of Abuja. The club disclosed
Seeds without borders: Using and sharing plant genetic diversity to adapt to climate change in Africa 11 African countries gathered last week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to implement seed sharing and
Kampala — Maize production in the country is expected to drop by 19 per cent if government does not tame the effects of climate change, a senior government official has said. Speaking at the launch
– The Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Tuesday presided over the commissioning of a 30-megawatts wind power plant erected in Nouakchott, the capital. The renewable energy plant is made
Jigawa State’s Jama’atu Nasrul Islam (JNI) in northern Nigeria has said that it had planted 10,000 assorted seedlings to combat desertification in the state. The JNI Secretary in the state, Alhaji Muhammad
The government of Ireland on Tuesday announced that it will provide an additional €2 million to drought affected people in Ethiopia. According to Irish Aid in Addis Ababa, the latest announcement was
Sierra Leone`s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is mulling an idea for a new law to tackle an increasing spate of smoke-related pollution, the Acting Director of Policy Planning and Research at the
–Liberia’s Ministry of Health has confirmed the death of the 15 year-old who tested positive of the Ebola virus on Thursday in the Du-Port Road community in the northern Monrovia suburb of Paynesville.
Nkasi District Commissioner (DC), Mr Iddy Hassan Kimanta, told the ‘Daily News’ over the phone on his way to Kirando village along the shores of Lake Tanganyika from Namanyere Town. Reports from Kirando