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 …
A recent study carried out by the United Nation International Children Economic Fund (UNICEF) have shown that 113million Nigerians, representing 70.6 per cent lack access to improved sanitation facilities, thereby defecate in the open. A Water, Sanitation and Hygiene specialist (WASH) specialist, Saaondo Anon who gave the figure at the …
The Rivers State House of Assembly has given approval to Governor Chibuike Amaechi to borrow the sum of $280 million loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and World Bank for water supply and sanitation projects in the state. Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Otelemaba Dan-Amachree, told lawmakers …
Global investors and business leaders are focusing on Africa as the next frontier of growth and opportunity, assuming the role that Asia has played in the past 30 years. As in Asia, rapidly developing economies have the potential to lift millions of people out of poverty, contribute to global labour …
PyagbaraTHE Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has blamed the failure of successive Nigerian government to enforce relevant oil industry laws to put the oil and gas companies in check for degradation of the Niger Delta environment. MOSOP President, Legborsi Pyagbara, said irrespective of the United Nations …
Royal Dutch Shell is ready to pay up to 30 million pounds ($51 million) in compensation for two oil spills in Nigeria in 2008 after a London court rejected a larger claim, sources involved in the case said on Friday. Around 15,000 residents of the Bodo community in the Niger …
OPEN Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB), has called for the quick passage of the biosafety right bill and the adoption of Genetic Modified (GM) crops to enhance achievement of food security in the country. The forum assured that GM crops are safe for human, animal health and the environment and …
ORGANISATION Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has put the number of people with no access to electricity globally at 1.3 billion, referring to the menace as a global challenge. OPEC Secretary-General, Abdalla S. El-Badri, made this disclosure at the 21st World Petroleum Congress, Plenary Session: ‘Russian Petroleum Industry Perspectives’, in Moscow, …
THE 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) has highlighted improvements in key health indicators, especially a decline in childhood deaths and stalled progress in reproductive health. The recent NDHS shows that mortality rate for children under five years is 128 deaths per 1,000 live births, which is a decline …
THE Nigerian Hydrological Service Agency (NHSA) in its 2014 Annual Flood Outlook (AFO) has said about 102 local councils are at high risk of flooding during the year. The local councils, according to the agency, are mostly in the North-East, North-West, Niger Delta, Bayelsa and along the coastal line. NHSA …
THE Zamfara State Government has released the sum of N40 million as assistance to the victims of the recent rainstorm in the state, which claimed four children at Anguwar Danbaba area of the state capital, Gusau. Addressing the victims yesterday, secretary of the state’s emergency relief agency, Atiku Sani Maradun, …
No fewer than 400 communities located around Ikorodu area of Lagos State have laid a threat to paralyse activities at the nation’s biggest power station, Egbin power plant over lingering black out, among other environmental hazards suffered from the activities of the electricity generating firm. The planned action is capable …
Ben van Beurden, the chief executive of Shell, will go to Nigeria this week to try to restore his firm's tarnished reputation by winning local support for a clean-up strategy to tackle old oil spills in the Delta. The Dutchman, who took over at the company at the start of …
THE Chairman, Senate Committee on Gas Resources, Sen. Nkechi Nwaogu says $30 billion is required for the development of infrastructure to achieve daily gas production target by 2015. Nwaogu said this in Abuja on Monday, at the opening of a National Conference on Gas Resources organised by the Senate Committee …
TO facilitate the completion of its proposed N31 billion Sagamu Independent Power Plant project, Honeywell Group and United States Trade Development Agency (USTDA) have signed a Grant Agreement for a feasibility study. The grant, which was signed by USTDA Director, Leocadia Zak and Honeywell Group’s Head of Corporate Development and …
LONDON: With nearly 8 lakh new born babies dying every year in India, the country holds the dubious distinction of having the highest number of such deaths globally. A comprehensive review led by Professor Joy Lawn of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to be made public on …
WITH an estimated Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of about $510 billion, which makes it the leading economy in Africa, the Federal Government has unfolded plans to make the GDP all-inclusive in order to enable it have impact on the lives of Nigerians. The Supervising Minister of the National Planning, Bashir …
NIGERIANS are now living longer by eight years even as coronary (ischaemic) heart disease, lower respiratory infections (such as pneumonia) and stroke top the list of 20 major causes of premature deaths globally. According to the World Health Statistics 2014 published at the weekend by the World Health Organisation (WHO), …
India accounts for the greatest burden of newborn deaths in the world, according to a recently published report. Half of the newborn deaths worldwide occur in just five countries, with India recording the highest at 7,79,000 per year, followed by Nigeria (2,76,000), Pakistan (2,02,400), China (1,57,000), and the Democratic Republic …
A two-percent increase in Ecological Fund allocation to states of the federation has been recommended by the Committee on Environment at the on-going National Conference in Abuja. According to the Committee, the increase became necessary in view of the expanding cost of battling ecological issues in several states partially brought …
FORMER head of state and All Progressive National caucus member, General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday commissioned 75-kilometer road constructed by the administration of Gov. Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar at the cost of N7.1 billion. Addressing hundred of people gathered to witness the event shortly after commissioning the project at Kaura Namoda council, …
