One of the few things I like about the movie “Pocahontas” is the main song “Colors of the Wind”. It’s so much more than a beautiful song to serenade your empty furniture to. Upon further reflection, it contains lessons on how to treat and respect one another, and most especially, the earth. Lessons that we […]
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Achieving sustainable development requires effort on personal levels and general/communal efforts. Living sustainably/green more seems vague and mostly undoable to a lot of people but we promise you, it’s not! Separating the dire need to protect our planet from the awful dangers that we as humans collectively subject our planet to, there are a lot
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“It struck me that all this great work going on in development was fantastic, but if we couldn’t put a safety net under people that stops them from falling back when inevitably bad things happen, then we’re all wasting our time.” Richard Leftley How can our poverty eradication efforts through credit facilities like microfinance, the
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I found fulfilment where I least expected – SustyVibes. It all started a year ago (2017) when I saw an ad for a movie screening (The Valuable Waste) about environmental degradation. I wasn’t busy, as at then, due to my break from academic activities and was eager to be occupied with something worth doing
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Every child is a blessing. I believe that wholeheartedly. Every child should be cherished, loved and raised well. This is good for the child and ultimately for the society. But at what point does this saying become untrue. When each child becomes an extra person to care for, another mouth to feed, an expense to
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We decided to take the second chapter of our SDGs campus hangout series to the Federal Polytechnic Bauchi, where we captured HND II students of Leisure and Tourism Management Department. The documentary “Nowhere to Run” is one of our most watched movie across states in Nigeria, it depicts clearly the environmental issues across different states
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We engaged young minds at the Unilag chapter of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) campus hangout series, where we partnered with the Faculty of Law to screen “Nowhere to Run”. This documentary enlightens people on the environmental crisis peculiar to various regions of our country Nigeria, highlighting possible measures to tackle these issues. We are working
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The embassy of United States of America in Nigeria has joined other stakeholders and organizations across the world to show solidarity for Nigerian wildlife resources and to restate the need for Nigerians to save the remainder of Nigeria’s threatened species. March 3rd, which is the signing date of the Convention on the International Trade of
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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
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We celebrate Christmas for about two months every year. From the first of November until the thirty-first of December, there’s a whiff of Christmas cheer at every store, every school… all public areas. Traditionally, on the twenty-fifth of December, families, friends and loved one’s exchange presents to celebrate Christmas. If you are as bad at giving
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