Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
Nigeria
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How effective is the global polio eradication drive?
An optimistic note, about wiping out polio from the six afflicted countries, was to be sounded at a conference organised by the World Health Organisation in Geneva on January 15. Instead, the sudden re emergence of the disease in two African nations Ben
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News snippets
• The Federal High Court in Lagos, Nigeria, has awarded (Nigerian dollar) N1.4 billion (Rs 45 crore) to three communities in the country's Bayelsa and Rivers States as ecological damages,
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How to respond to strikes
Nigerians have developed a unique response to strikes, as was seen on October 6, 2003. Thousands of panic-stricken people besieged banks to withdraw money and stockpile food even as the Nigeria
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Acute renal failure following accidental potassium bromate poisoning: A case report
<p>Accidental poisoning is common in children. Potassium bromate is a commonly used additive and raising agent in many edibles particularly break, a staple food worldwide, yet its accidental poisoning
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Scramble for the spoils
Oil politics has reared its ugly head yet again. This time in the tiny twin island African state of Sao Tome and Principe
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Slippery business
Oil major Shell has decided to publish details of its payments made to the Nigerian government, which amounted to us $900 million last year, following a campaign by human rights groups and the uk
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Major flare up
Multinational oil giants Chevron Texaco Oil Company, Shell and Total Fina Elf have shut down operations in Nigeria's trouble-torn southern Delta region. The companies estimate that the disruptions
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Crude world
The many little black deeds of oil
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Problem in the pipeline
Frequent oil spills are wreaking havoc on the delta town of Okpella in Nigeria's Edo state. In the most recent incident, a pipeline of Nigerian National Petroleum Company
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Dumping disincentives
The Nigerian government has soun ded a toxic waste alarm. It claims to have unearthed a plan by oil producing firms to dump 35,000 metric tonnes of waste in the country. The petroleum and