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President Akufo-Addo of Ghana passionately addressed the audience at the Global Partnership for Education Conference in Dakar early February, he spoke passionately about the situation of education in Africa. According to him, discussions on education should not only focus on providing access to education but also on the quality of education provided. A lot has

If you are just catching up on this, welcome! I have discussed five key trends to look out for in 2018 here. In this review, there would be dirty talk, robots that can steal our jobs and mutated mosquitoes. So please sit back and enjoy this sci-fi, alien fest fused with bad language… Trash Talk

Original post on TheOutline Twenty millennia ago, when the Earth was cool and glaciers were at their most massive, scientists believe the deep waters around Antarctica stored up large amounts of carbon dioxide. But as the planet thawed afterward, the sea may have sped the warming up by releasing that carbon back into the atmosphere

Original post on Inhabitat What if a home could improve the environment around it? That’s the question architect Michelle Lanker of Lanker Design LLC and her husband Bill Bloxom put to the test when they designed their new getaway—a floating home docked on Washington’s Lake Union that’s not only net-zero and certified LEED Platinum, but

Original post on Guardian NG Towards ensuring that all operations in Lagos State abattoir meet international standard, the state ministry of agriculture held a one-day stakeholders’ workshop for butchers at the Oko-Oba abattoir, to put a permanent end to illegal slaughtering activities at the abattoir. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Oluwatoyin Suarau, who addressed the

Original post on TreeHugger If your family loves playing board games during the holidays, then you should check out this eco-friendly update on an old classic. Jenga Ocean is played the same way as regular wooden Jenga, except its blocks are made entirely from recycled plastic that comes from fishing nets. The nets are sourced through a

Original Version of this post is on Premium Times Last year, the Lagos State government passed a new environmental law which terminated its previous partnership with the private waste collectors and empowered Visionscape Group and its Nigerian subsidiary, Visionscape Sanitation Solutions, to take their position. While Visionscape became the sole concessionaire for residential waste collection,

In a report by Greenpeace dated September 21, 2016. Nearly 200 people were killed by chemical accidents. Two years later and still, so many people are being killed by toxic substances that find their way into our air, water and land from different sources. It is obvious that we can’t do without some (if not