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
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Africa: 'Nigeria Will Surpass Africa's 2020 Renewable Energy Target'
Following the increased adoption rate of solar and inverter technologies in Nigeria in recent times, the Managing Director, Cloud Energy Photoelectric Limited, Theophilus Nweke, has predicted that the
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Nigeria: One Dies in Sokoto Rainstorm, 100 Houses Destroyed
One person died, while more than 100 houses were destroyed when a rainstorm swept through 15 villages in Illela Local Government Area of Sokoto State, Friday. The Council Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi
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Nigeria: Ebonyi Budgets N1.8 Billion for Primary Health Care
Abakaliki — The Ebonyi State government at the weekend said that under the first round of 2017 Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week, (MNCHW), 124, 900 children would be immunized against the polio virus,
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Drought and armyworm threaten Africa’s food security
The ongoing drought in the Horn and southern African countries and armyworms invasion, pose a major food security threat to the continent, official said. The African Union Commissioner of Rural Economy
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Ogoni leaders bemoan stakeholders’ inability to support cleanup
The Ogoni leaders have expressed displeasure over the inability of some stakeholders to contribute their own quota of the $1 billion cleanup deal, a situation, which according to them, was also delaying
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1.7m Nigeria women, 380,000 children living with HIV’
No fewer than 1.7million women and 380,00 children under age 15, are currently living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria according to the 2015 data by the National AIDS & STIs Control Program (NASCP) of the Federal
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Nigeria’s ranking on air pollution, green energy stirs controversy
The impact of Nigerians and their activities on the environment became a subject of controversy yesterday as a global study ranked the country high. A new study from MoneySuperMarket on how people impact
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Ogoni widows file civil writ accusing Shell of complicity in Nigeria killings
The widows of men who were hanged by Nigeria’s military government in the 1990s have launched a civil case against Shell, accusing it of complicity in their husbands’ executions. Esther Kiobel, the
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With 1,166 deaths, Nigerian govt formally declares meningitis outbreak over
After the disease had caused about 1,166 deaths over 23 weeks in 25 states, the Nigerian government has finally declared the meningitis epidemic over in the country. The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole,
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AfDB president Adesina named World Food Prize recipient
This year’s World Food Prize will go to Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), whose name was announced earlier this week in the United States. The prestigious USD$250,000