Dr. Ijeoma Nwagwu is Faculty at The Lagos Business School and also manages the LBS FirstBank Sustainability Centre. She earned her doctorate in Law (S.J.D) and Masters in Law (L.L .M) degrees from Harvard Law School and was awarded the Landon H.Gammon prize for academic excellence. After attending the Nigerian Law School, Ijeoma worked as […]
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Spoken Word Artiste and SustyViber, Valentine Onyeka Ogunaka AKA ‘Brainbox’ today visited Harold Curtis Academy, Kubwa-Abuja as part of his Career Talks and Education for SDGs mini tour – Yes, you heard right? Brainbox is taking his love for sustainability and spoken word to the world! It’s amazing the things young people can do with
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We are a sum total of our thoughts, experience and activities in our sojourn on mother earth. A school of thought believes that our mind is a resipotry of ideas, logic & inspiration, and we should feed and guard it jealously with all diligence such that issues that emanate from it can chart for us
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Dr Taibat Lawanson is an Associate professor of Urban Planning at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She served in the process leading to Habitat III as a policy expert on institutions, capacity building and development. She shares her view on the prospects and challenges of the new urban agenda in Lagos Looking at Lagos as
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We mean every single word when we say “Young people will drive Sustainable Development in Africa”, case in point is the brilliantly put together position paper by the SDGs Community Development Service (CDS) Group, NYSC PHALGA Zone in recognition and response to the social, economic and environmental challenges pressing Rivers State. In 2017, young people
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The Niger Delta is an important economic driver for the Nigerian economy. The oil from the Delta region continues to maintain Nigeria as the largest African producer. The issues that plague the Niger Delta and the resulting militancy have focused on causing grief for the nation’s cash flow. The promises made to initiate the remediation
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We hosted our Susty Party in Abuja on the 10th of December, 2016 and we still have not gotten over how awesome the day went. Spoken word poetry and movies were the themes for this party and with the help of the Abuja Literary Society, National Geographic and The Valuable Waste Initiative, we got some
A mini-grid, also sometimes referred to as a “micro grid or isolated grid”, can be defined as a set of electricity generators and possibly energy storage systems interconnected to a distribution network that supplies electricity to a localized group of customers. They involve small-scale electricity generation (10 kW to 10 MW) which serves a limited
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During the period when Lord Lugard was calling the shots, 1911 to be precise, the total estimated population in Nigeria was estimated to be about 16 million. Fast forward to more than 45 years; 1960 to be precise, the era of independence, our total population stood at 45.2 million. In other words, this means there
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Submitted by @anibrendan Why nobody has explored the idea of a female supreme being… I can’t say for sure. Besides the fact that different religions describe supreme beings with definite masculinity I think we’re all just plain scared of the concept. Maybe scared is pushing it a little too far. Maybe we’ve never imagined the concept
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