Seventy-two year- old Fagbenro sat perplexed on a bamboo chair in front of his farm house in Idiya community in South Western Nigeria. The irregular rainfall at the beginning of 2015 planting season had taken a great toll on the productivity of his cocoa farm. All effort at boosting the yield of his output have achieved […]
Climate Change and Food Security in Nigeria: A Behemoth impeding Development Read More »
Doyinsola Ogunye is the Chief Executive Officer of Mental and Environmental Initiative for Children (MEDIC), the founding organisation of Kids Clean Club, an environmentally and socially conscious non-governmental organization established to cater for the physical mental and environmental cleanliness of the Nigerian child and to create awareness amongst children to be socially responsible at a
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Sarah, a medical doctor serving her fatherland in Kano, a northern state in Nigeria, woke up to the usual morning prayers conducted by the prestigious religious group dominant in the region. She had been faced with this new development since her arrival at her place of primary assignment, this was one out of the many
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The Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi has said that he would introduce a law prohibiting poor men from marrying more than one wife, saying there is a connection between polygamy, poverty and terrorism. He said because muslims practice polygamous marriage, most poor men end up marrying up to four wives with as many as 20 children whom they
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Dear beautiful girl, I wish you understood your power. Your female power Your creative power, out of you flows nations of men and women I wish you were treated right, paid right, given your space to grow. You are still being sold and treated as a slave by people who don’t understand you. I wish
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I’m sure you’ve seen the posts on social media. In fact, last week #StoptheSoot trended for days. I was out of town for work, and it was very interesting to meet people and introduce myself as someone from Port Harcourt and get comments like, “Hey! Port Harcourt! How are you people surviving?” “So you’ve been
The Black Soot in Port Harcourt and Why We Petitioned UN Environment Read More »
Alex, an astute Activational Speaker, Environmental Activist and passionate Nation Builder is the Managing Director of Passion House and also the Executive Director of African Clean-up Initiative; a not-for-profit organisation poised towards raising Environmentally Responsible Citizens. Alex passion for Environmental Sustainability and Nation Building led him to initiate the Clean-up Nigeria Project that has successfully
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We are living in an ever increasingly urban world, where people continue to be drawn to cities in search of economic, social and creative opportunities. Today, 54% of the world’s population already live in cities and with a further 3 million people per week moving to urban centres, the UN estimates that 66% of the
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Nigeria’s foremost total beverage alcohol company, Guinness Nigeria Plc, has released its Sustainability Report for 2016, reporting its performance on various aspects of its operations, while outlining its sustainability targets for the future. The report was unveiled in Lagos on Wednesday, 15 February, 2017, at a formal ceremony attended by various stakeholder groups and partners
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• VVF, Symptom Of A Failed System, Says Osotimehin • Kano Plans Legislation To Peg Marriage At 18 YearsA new deal is being worked out towards ending child marriage in the country, as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Kano State Government and the Emirate Council in the state have come together to push
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