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 an analysis of historical data, climate forecasts, hydrological modeling and the report identifying varying degrees of flood risk across different regions and …
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, has said that the Nigerian government and the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited ought to be ashamed of their conduct in Ogoniland rather than speak of cleanup plans for Ogoni as an achievement. MOSOP spokesperson Mr Fegalo Nsuke …
Nigeria has approved a $150 million loan from the World Bank to help eradicate polio and scale up immunization, Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said on Wednesday. After a global effort to wipe out polio, there were just 22 cases on earth last year, down from 350,000 30 years ago, according …
Cholera outbreak has resulted in the death of eleven persons in three villages located in Bebeji local government area in Kano state. According to witness accounts, 47 persons affected by the ailment are currently receiving treatment at a private medical facility located close to the affected villages. Comrade Ubale Dauda …
Abubakar Bwari, the Minister of State, Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, says more than two million people in Nigeria depend on illegal mining for their livelihood. Mr Bwari made this known at a two-day “First National Stakeholders’ Discourse on Opportunities and Challenges of Artisanal Mining in Nigeria’’ on Monday …
AN Edo High Court presided over by the the Chief Judge of the State, Justice E. F. Ikponmwen has nullified the Edo State Sanitation and Pollution Law2010, describing it unconstitutional. Claimants in the suit are Mr Johnson Igbinedion and Mrs Eunice Igbinedion. The defendants are Edo State House of Assembly, …
The Minister of Health, Prof. Israel Adewole, on Monday launched a scheme, Alliance for Epidemic Preparedness and Response (A4EPR) aimed at getting the major stakeholders in health sector to combat infectious diseases. The launch which took place in Lagos was an initiative of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria …
Abeokuta — Minister of Water Resources, Mr. Suleiman Adamu has stated that access of Nigerians to pipe-borne water has dropped from 32 percent in 1990 to 7 percent in 2015, adding that about 71 percent of Nigerians have no access to quality water sanitation. He also said that only 69 …
The Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA) - a coalition comprising Coca-Cola Nigeria Ltd., Nigerian Bottling Company, Nestle Nigeria PLC, Seven Up Bottling company and Nigerian Breweries Plc, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Lagos State Government, through the Ministry of Transportation, to rid the state's waterways …
The World Bank has stated that it has exceeded its financing target in new energy for Nigeria and other developing countries. In its latest report, the bank stated that 32.1 per cent of its financing had climate co-benefits, already exceeding the target set in 2015 while 28 per cent of …
The Zamfara State Government has planted 24,000 trees in some of its local government areas, as part of its campaign against desertification across the state. The Special Adviser to the State Governor on Directorate of Afforestation, Mansur Khalifa-Kaura, disclosed this on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of …
Kenya and Tanzania are among nine African countries set to benefit from an ambitious US-led initiative to invest in gas-powered power plants. The Gas Roadmap for sub-Saharan Africa, launched in June at the World Gas Conference in Washington, DC, by the US Agency for International Development's Power Africa co-ordinator, is …
About 38 per cent of all African road traffic deaths occur among pedestrians, Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, has said. He disclosed this in a presentation during the General Assembly of the West African Road Safety Organisation (WARSO) in Dakar, Senegal, on Non-Motorised …
A new report has disclosed that Nigeria is one of the 50 countries in the world where new HIV infections are rising. The report by the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS), said more than half of Nigerians (51 per cent) bears the burden of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome …
Nigeria’s central Middle Belt region is home to a diverse cultural population of semi-nomadic cattle herders and farming communities. For decades, the region has experienced increasingly violent attacks that have been partially attributed to direct competition over access and use of natural resources. According to a report released by the …
The ongoing Akpo-Mbaraoye Achina-Ogwu Nganga-Onne-Agbudu-Ogboji road awarded by former Governor Peter Obi and inherited by Governor Willie Obiano has been cut off by gully erosion. Flash flood causing gullies on the road necessitated by the abandonment of the road project in Achina Community, Aguata council area of Anambra state led …
Abuja — The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have launched a joint effort to support conflict-affected people in North-eastern Nigeria to increase their food production and reduce dependence on food assistance. Using a 'twin track' approach, FAO is said to be providing …
Mr Buhari launched the line Thursday Morning at the new metro station in Central Business District (CBD), Abuja. After the launch, the president and other dignitaries and journalists took a ride from the CBD metro station to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. The rail line is the first phase of a …
As part of commitment to ensure hygienic environment for healthy living, open defecation now attracts seven lashes and N200 fine in Unguwan Damaru in Soba Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Adda’u Ibrahim, the community’s Chairman of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Committee, said that in addition to seven lashes …
World Food Programme (WFP) urgently requires $49 million to continue lifesaving support until the end of 2018 to assist the most food insecure and vulnerable people in the North-east Nigeria. Myrta Kaulard, WFP Representative in Nigeria, said this in Maiduguri on Thursday in a statement e-mailed to News Agency of …
Energy and development experts from across Africa and beyond have called for renewed urgency in the drive to light up and power the continent. With close to 600 million Africans still lacking electricity, they argue that Africa's power deficit must be considered both a crisis and an opportunity to fast-track …
