United Nations negotiators have begun talks in Nairobi towards reaching a new global pact for protecting nature and wildlife, after a previous round of talks in March failed to make progress. With scientists warning that an estimated one million species [...]
Heavy rains in South Africa have forced hundreds of people to flee their homes on the east coast, according to officials, only a month after the worst floods in living memory killed more than 400. The floods over the weekend [...]
A survey of pollution data in 6,475 cities on Tuesday showed that no country met the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) air quality standard in 2021. The survey also showed that smog even rebounded in some regions after a COVID-related dip. The WHO [...]
UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world is “sleepwalking to climate catastrophe”, with major economies allowing carbon pollution to increase when drastic cuts are needed. The planet-saving goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (34.7 Fahrenheit) is already [...]
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday signed the Climate Change bill into law. This was made public by the president’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu. According to Mr Shehu, the Climate Change Act owes its origin to a bill sponsored by a member of the [...]
President Muhammad Buhari has said Nigeria will cut its carbon emission to net zero by 2060. He spoke at the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26 in Glasgow, UK. Mr Buhari said the conference is happening at a time [...]
Current commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track for a “catastrophic” average 2.7-degree Celsius temperature rise this century, the United Nations has said, the latest stark warning ahead of crunch climate talks. Just days before the [...]
The Nigerian government has praised United States President Joe Biden for returning to the global climate change agenda, even as the American government pledged support for Nigeria’s fight against insecurity. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo gave the commendation on Tuesday at [...]
A new report by the United Nations has warned that more than 100 million “extremely poor” people across Africa are threatened by accelerating climate change that could also melt away the continent’s few glaciers within two decades. The report released [...]
The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), has commemorated the 2021 World Clean-up Day, along with a network of corporate bodies NGOs and governmental organizations, during which 1,250 kilogrammes of plastic materials was harvested, along a 5-kilometre distance of Ilashe beach, [...]
No fewer than three persons were reported dead in a flood disaster that ravaged TradeMoore Estate, along Airport Road, in the Lugbe area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. An eyewitness on Monday said the incident happened at about 10pm [...]
Twelve people died and 4,400 fell sick in southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following a tailings leak from the Catoca diamond mine in Angola in July, the DRC’s environment minister has said. After a visit to Kasai province, [...]
Nearly 300 firefighters, two water bomber planes and five helicopters were battling a forest fire in Greece on Sunday that destroyed homes and farm buildings and injured eight people, authorities said. Civil Protection Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis credited the firefighters with [...]
A brutal start to the wildfire season in the western United States and Canada worsened Thursday as a massive Oregon blaze exploded in dry, windy conditions and a new California blaze threatened communities devastated by the 2018 Camp Fire. Wildfire [...]
Since the beginning of the year, the Amazon Rainforest, our largest tropical forest full of ecosystems essential to global climate regulation networks, has had 430,000 acres (174,000 hectares) cleared and burned to supply the logging industry and clear land for [...]
EDWARD NNACHI writes that the unending crisis between herdsmen, whose animals destroy produce, and farmers in Ebonyi State poses serious threat to food security in the state and its environs Forty-nine-year-old Ibiam Uchenna-Ogbuewu, a native of Ebunwana Edda community in [...]
Mafari Discovers a New Nature, Rock With Human Face in Kwara State In our quest to explore the world, capture its beauty, and showcase life through the lens; nature came to us in a form we recognize. A form in [...]
A visit to Odonla, one of the many villages spread out along the long Atlantic coastal line of Ilaje, Ondo state with a combined projected population of over 391,200 people in an area of about 1,357km2, will certainly open your [...]
The Ogun State Government has assured residents of Ojodu Abiodun, Akute in Ifo Local Government Area of the State that the State Government would immediately commence work on the 4.65-kilometre road at the end of the current raining season, with [...]
This tragedy is too much for us to bear –Families of 26 church youths who drowned in River Benue Wailings from an inconsolable young lady in her 20s, Renance Vincent, moved many sympathisers to tears. The lady’s younger siblings identified [...]
A building collapse occurred at midnight – Saturday, July 11th, 2020 in Freeman Street, a street in Lagos Island Local Government Area, Lagos State. Am an eye witness to it. As at the time of filing this report, casualties have [...]
Nigerians struggle as virus lockdown hits supply chains: At a market on the outskirts of Nigeria’s megacity Lagos, yam trader Olatunji Okesanya is scrambling for produce as measures to halt the coronavirus cut him off from suppliers. “The restriction in [...]
A three-storey building under construction has collapsed in Enugu State. The building, which was located at Ezeluike Street, Olympic Layout, off One Day, Agbani Road, Awkunanaw in Enugu South Local Government Area of the state collapsed on Sunday about 8:20pm. [...]
A group, COVID-19 Incident Volunteers, has warned Nigerians to ignore April Fool Day jokes amid the coronavirus pandemic. The April 1 tradition sees families, web users and corporations embrace practical jokes. But the group urged Nigerians to desist from such [...]
No fewer than 100 residential buildings, school, churches were destroyed by an explosion suspected to be bomb blast in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Saturday morning. The blast which occurred in the early hours of Saturday cut off the [...]
Landslide hits Anambra: The multiple eruption was said to have damaged farmlands, homes, major access roads and economic trees. A source said, “It also brought down electric power lines. The main access road to neighbouring Umudala village from Ubahu village [...]
The World Bank has called on countries to ensure well-designed structural reforms in order to unlock growth and build the foundations for future prosperity. World Bank Group President, David Malpass gave the advice in Washington on Thursday in his opening [...]
Ondo State governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has ordered the immediate closure of schools situated within flood-prone areas across the state. The governor’s directive, which will affect only public primary and secondary schools, is coming on the heels the flood occasioned by [...]
Floods On Agric-Ishawo Roads: Again, we are back to the Agric-Ishawo road in Ikorodu, Lagos State. The residents of Agric/Isawo area, Ikorodu, Lagos State, have drawn the attention of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to the bad state of the road. In [...]
Flood has submerged 500 farmlands, while also destroying over 37 houses, following torrential rainfall in four communities under Tarmuwa local government area of Yobe State. Communities affected by the flooding in the local government are: Jumbam, koriyel and Garga. Though [...]
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