As a warming planet brings higher sea levels and wilder weather – from droughts to floods – the challenge of growing food is getting tougher with less reliable harvests. Temperature and rainfall shifts are altering the range of crop pests, bringing damaging infestations – from fall armyworm to locusts – to new locations or in […]
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During fifty years from 1950 to 2000, progress in human development around the globe was unprecedented, and countries like Nigeria with the lowest human development indicators were making the fastest progress in health, education, and civil and political liberties. During these fifty years: Life expectancy rose by 10 years Infant mortality was nearly halved Food […]
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Hundreds of residents were on Sunday afternoon sacked from their homes with vehicles submerged after flash floods affected Ekoro, Ajisebiara-Mecca, Akowonjo, Oko Oba and Egbeda areas of Lagos State. Many canals overflowed, causing several electric poles to fall, raising fears of possible electrocution. The rains started around 1:20pm while worshippers were returning from church and […]
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On December 12, 2015, Nigeria alongside 195 other parties endorsed the Paris Agreement pact. The move re-echoed Nigeria’s readiness to follow the path of low carbon development in order to curb the devastating impact of climate change in the country by 2030. For this to come to fruition, the federal government through its ministry of […]
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Germany is set to return more than 1,000 previously disputed bronzes looted from the former Kingdom of Benin, in present-day Nigeria. The German Press Agency (DPA) quoted Nigerian Information and Culture Minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed as saying that delegations of both countries have signed a memorandum of understanding in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. An agreement will […]
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As part of the National Day for the Respect of Cultural Diversity held on Tuesday, Indigenous organizations demonstrated in front of the Argentine Congress to demand the extension of Law 26.160, which protects Indigenous peoples from being evicted from the lands they inhabit. This “emergency law” was approved in late 2006 for a term of […]
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