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When men and women finish school and start working, they’re paid pretty much equally. But a gender pay gap soon appears, and it grows significantly over the next two decades. So what changes? The answer can be found by looking at when the pay gap widens most sharply. It’s the late 20s to mid-30s, according […]

Farmers and communities in the Northern Savannah Zone of Ghana are being assisted to adopt sustainable land management practices to help reverse land degradation and desertification. Land degradation in Ghana – and indeed Africa – is increasingly being recognized as a key development issue because of its impact on the productive capacity of the land.

We have screened Nowhere to run twice now and to be honest, we want to screen it a couple more times – we want more people to learn about climate change and the threats to our future, we want people to know that we cannot have jobs and spend money on a dead planet, we

For two weeks or so I have been deciding whether I wanted to write on this issue or not. The reason being that there are so many levels to this topic. So, I want to have a conversation on Sex Education (yeah, I said it, now what). I’m more concerned about what girls are being

I have always loved project management as an area of knowledge. In fact, I spent 5 years in University studying project management. I also have a few years, of work experience in Construction Project Management, and Petroleum Project Management. Yet, nothing comes close to how effective, knowledge of project management can be in the new field of

“Am going to further my master’s degree in Education before 20 runs out. This ambition must be done by all means.” The above was what I saw written on the wall of a closed down bakery in Goi, an oil devastated and deserted Ogoni town in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State. Immediately I

Glacier National Park is melting at an alarming rate, and it’s because of climate change. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey and Portland State University explaining the disappearance of the glaciers at the vast Montana landmark. When the park was founded in 1910, it was home to about 150

The Prime Minister of Tuvalu, an island nation in the Pacific, is calling out President Donald Trump for his myopic views on coal and climate change. Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga told Motherboard no country is seriously interested in fossil fuel expansion anymore. No one in the US financial community wants to invest in fossil fuels,

Finland, the new chair of the Arctic council, has appealed to climate change scientists to fight the threat of the US and Russia tearing up commitments to combat global warming. The Nordic country takes up the two-year chairmanship of the body, increasingly a forum where arguments about climate change play out, at a ministerial meeting

EXPERTS in the education sector has stated that Nigeria’s school programs which focus exclusively on the 15 per cent Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is destroying the quality of education. They said this has led to the creation of graduates and school leavers who do not possess the basic skills for values-based leadership, creativity and innovation, communication