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This phenomenon is largely true for every aspect of our development. One major area the Federal Government in Nigeria seem to be paying lip service is in the area of our environment. The promise to clean up the Niger Delta region which was made amidst so much fanfare early in the year is still not fulfilled. We […]

Rapid development is at the heart of Africa’s economic rise and investors from around the world are keen to claim their stake in the continent’s growth. The influx of revenue coming into African nations is transforming countries across the continent, but it’s not all good news. The rapid development comes at a cost and sustainability tops

The world’s poorest children are at greater risk of trafficking and slavery if the United States goes ahead with its plan to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Wednesday. Last week, US President Donald Trump fulfilled a campaign pledge to ditch the landmark accord to tackle global warming. Trump

For the past few months, I have been trying to develop a write-up on the comparative analysis of running a generic NGO and running an NGO that has a real sustainable impact on humans. I have finally made up my mind to put thoughts to paper on this discourse. This is a study whose findings

Efforts of the federal government to effectively domesticate and implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) got a big boost in Abuja with the United Nations pledging its partnership and support to Nigeria to deliver on the implementation of the SDGs. The pledge was made when the global director of the United Nations SDG action campaign,

President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon announced on Monday, June 5, 2017, in a speech delivered at the United Nations headquarters that his government has created a network of 20 marine protected areas, consisting of nine marine parks and 11 aquatic reserves covering 26% of the nation’s territorial waters. “As I have often argued, we

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said that it has not licensed any Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) based products in the country. NAFDAC spokesperson, Dr. Abubakar Jimoh, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday, June 8, 2017, in Abuja while reacting to speculation that GMO

Imagine sinking into the deepest parts of the Central Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Mexico and Hawaii. Watch as the water turns from clear to blue to dark blue to black. And then continue on for another 15,000 feet (4,600 meters) to the seafloor — roughly the distance from the peak of California’s Mount Whitney to

Circular economy products and services need to be price-competitive with less or non-sustainable products if they are to tip the market in their favour. This was the message of Climate-KIC-backed start-up CocoPallet, a growing Dutch company that offers a sustainable alternative to existing wood and plastic pallets, and one of the speakers at the World

From feeding humans to regulating the climate, water and carbon cycles; housing more than 230,000 known species of marine life, and producing the very air we breathe, oceans are, without question, essential for life on Earth. But they are under more threat than ever. Fish are being caught for food faster than their populations can