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December 13, 2023
Nigeria: Delta State Governor Bags First Climate Change Champion Award At UNFCCC COP28 Conference
The Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has received the First Climate Change Champion Award. Read more »
December 06, 2023
Nigeria: Nigeria Eyeing Multi-Trillion Dollar Climate Change Financing, Privatisation to Fund 2024 Budget
Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, has said the country is targeting multi-trillion-dollar climate change financing. Edun stated this… Read more »
December 04, 2023
Nigeria: PDP Criticises Govt Over 1, 411 Delegation to COP28, Obi Urges Production, Not Waste
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised Nigeria's large delegation of 1, 411 persons to the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab… Read more »
Nigeria: COP28 - Beyond the Jamboree
Africa needs special support as its contributions to global warming is insignificant Read more »
October 08, 2023
Nigeria: Floods Loom in Adamawa, Bayelsa, Kogi, Six Others as Cameroonian Dam Releases Water
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has alerted Nigerians to expect floods as Cameroonian authorities release water from the Lagdo Dam. Read more »
August 08, 2023
Nigeria: The High Cost of Floods
Major stakeholders should do more to minimise the impact of floods Read more »
May 16, 2023
Nigeria: Climate Crisis - World Not Ready to 'Switch Off' Fossil Fuels, Says UAE
The United Arab Emirates Minister of Climate Change and Environment, Mariam Almheiri, has said phasing out fossil fuels would hurt countries that either depend on them for revenue… Read more »
April 11, 2023
Nigeria: Govt Returns to Coal Exploration Despite 2060 Carbon Emissions Pledge
Despite its net-zero carbon emissions pledge by 2060, the federal government has signalled the return of coal mining in the country, with the putting up for sale of five coal… Read more »
January 20, 2023
Nigeria: Climate Investment - Nigeria, China, Others May Lose U.S.$377 Billion GDP Growth
Failure to invest the bare minimum needed to withstand projected climate damage could cost China, Nigeria and other emerging markets a whooping $377 billion in climate damages and… Read more »
January 18, 2023
Nigeria: Addressing Food Crisis Will Boost Jobs, Health, Climate Goals - Report
A new report has established that early mover countries could accelerate the food systems transformation, boost job opportunities as well as meet targets on health and climate. Read more »
Nigeria: At WEF, New Initiative to Help Unlock $3trn Needed Yearly for Climate Change Launched
The World Economic Forum (WEF) supported by more than 45 partners yesterday launched the Giving to Amplify Earth Action (GAEA), a global initiative to fund and grow new and… Read more »
January 17, 2023
Nigeria: ExxonMobil Predicted Climate Change While Downplaying Risk - Report
ExxonMobil publicly sowed doubt about climate change despite the oil giant's own scientists accurately predicting global warming as far back as the 1970s, a new study reported by… Read more »
December 15, 2022
Nigeria: Terrorism, Unconstitutional Change of Govt, Climate Change Threaten Attainment of AU Agenda 2063 - Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has sounded a note of warning that Africa risks not attaining the goals continental leaders have set for the region by 2063 in view of challenges of… Read more »
December 13, 2022
Nigeria: Two Major Takeaways for Nigeria At COP 27
Godswill Ihetu is heartened by the understanding that transition to cleaner energy should not happen at the cost of people's livelihoods Read more »
December 04, 2022
Nigeria: 2022 Flood Killed 600 People, Displaced 1.3 Million Others - Unicef
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said no fewer than 600 persons died in the 2022 flood in Nigeria, while 1.3 million others were rendered homeless. Read more »
November 14, 2022
Africa: ILO Launches 1m Green Jobs Initiative for Youths, Just Transition Financing Tools #AfricaClimateHope
The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the first Green Jobs for Youth pacts and Just Transition Finance Tool on Banking and Investment Activities at the COP27 Climate… Read more »
November 04, 2022
Nigeria: Flight Disruptions Predicted In Harmattan Season
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet ) has alerted the public of the possible commencement of the dry season otherwise called the harmattan season in most parts of the north,… Read more »
October 25, 2022
Nigeria: Nigeria Now Experiencing Negative Effect of Climate Change - Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that Nigeria was currently faced with the negative effect of climate change as experienced in the recent flooding in different parts of the… Read more »
October 24, 2022
Africa: IFC - Nigeria to Get $70bn Share of $1trn Climate Change Investment Opportunity in Africa
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank Group, has disclosed that Nigeria would get about seven per cent share of the $1 trillion climate change… Read more »
October 17, 2022
Nigeria: Ending Flooding Nightmare in Katsina
For residents of flood-prone communities in Katsina State, it is respite all the way as the major intervention work by the state government in collaboration with the World Bank,… Read more »
October 12, 2022
Nigeria: 500 Confirmed Dead, 45,000 Houses Destroyed, 70,000 Hectares Farmlands Submerged Nationwide
The hellish condition of those impacted by the flood in several states is intensifying even as the federal government confirmed yesterday that at least 500 persons had died in the… Read more »
October 07, 2022
Nigeria: Flooding - Buhari Pledges Govt's Assistance to States
President Muhammadu Buhari has advised Governors under the auspices of Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) to meet with the Minister of Water Resources, who has "worked hard on dams and… Read more »
September 29, 2022
Nigeria: Buhari Talks Climate Change
President Muhammadu Buhari has identified climate change as one of the major challenges facing humanity. Buhari made this known yesterday at State House, Abuja, while inaugurating… Read more »
September 28, 2022
Nigeria: 23 Deaths Recorded As Flood Displaces 12,856 Households in Benue
The recent flood that ravaged most parts of Benue, recorded a total of 23 persons dead with 12,856 households displaced. Read more »
September 13, 2022
Nigeria: Scores Displaced, Property Destroyed As Flood Ravages Communities in Ekiti
Many residents of some communities in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, were yesterday dislodged, as flood surged into their residential buildings after a torrential downpour… Read more »
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