Category: Environment

  • Environment minister calls for protection of digital ecosystem

    Environment minister calls for protection of digital ecosystem

    From Lateef Taiwo The Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal has called for the protection of the digital ecosystem globally, emphasizing the need to guard against cyber threats and safeguard data integrity on wildlife species. The Minister disclosed this in Abuja at the commemoration of the 2024 World Wildlife Day with the theme ‘connecting people…

  • Laura Ikeji Proudly Displays New Tattoos Featuring Her Children’s Names

    Laura Ikeji Proudly Displays New Tattoos Featuring Her Children’s Names

    Nigerian influencer, Laura Ikeji, has joyfully showcased her new tattoos on Instagram, featuring the names of her three children. The influencer, who recently welcomed her third child with husband Ogbonna Kanu, shared images of the tattoos on her Instagram page. In the photos, Laura revealed a tattoo on her chest that reads “Family” with a…

  • Land Management: Delta Govt To Set up Geographic Information System

      From Lateef Taiwo   The Delta State Government has started plans to set up a Geographic Information system, GIS, for Land management. This was disclosed on Wednesday by Commissioner for lands and surveys Chief Goodnews Obiodeh, during a presentation by the management of GIS Transport company in his office in Asaba. Chief Obiodeh expressed…

  • Architects Recommend SINOMA Fiber Cement Board, Roofing Tiles For Construction

    Members of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA) Abuja Chapter have recommended the use of Sinoma products by stakeholders in the building industry for their construction projects. Chinese firms Sinoma New Material Nigeria Company Limited and Sinoma FABCOM Limited specializes in the production of Fiber Cement Boards, Stone Coated Roofing Tiles and Steel Roofing Sheets.…

  • Stakeholders back afforestation for charcoal trade, export

    Stakeholders back afforestation for charcoal trade, export           By Adebola Adegoke/Mariam Akande   The National Association of Charcoal Producers, Dealers, Exporters and Afforestation of Nigeria (NACPDEAN) and stakeholders have stressed the need for aggressive afforestation and reforestation in sustaining the charcoal sub-sector.   They made the call at a stakeholders consultative…

  • NBTE, institute partner to begin diploma in solar tech

    NBTE, institute partner to begin diploma in solar tech       By Fabian Ekeruche   Asteven Energy Institute is partnering the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) to issue a National Innovation Diploma (NID) in Solar Energy Technology.   The institute made the disclosure at a virtual stakeholders meeting monitored by the News Agency…

  • CSO appoints new board member for sustainable development

    Prof. Ibrahim Choji, CSDevNet Chairman of board of trustee and new board member, Prof. Ibitoru Hart   The Climate and Sustainable Development Network (CSDevNet), a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) has appointed Prof. Ibitoru Hart as one of its board members to promote sustainable development across the country. The Chair Board of Trustees of the organisation,…

  • Experts call for proper disposal of wastewater

    Experts have called for effective ways to dispose wastewater, because it was the leading cause of surface and ground water pollution. Some Environmental and Health experts told the our correspondent that safe disposal of wastewater remained a serious problem in the country. Mr Sylvester Arogundade, Earth and Environment Initiative, noted that indiscriminate wastewater disposal had…

  • Bauchi agency seizes 3,290 bags of charcol

    The Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA), says it has confiscated and auctioned 3,290 bags of charcol between Jan. and Sept. 2021. Mr Ibrahim Kabir, Director General of the Agency, made the disclosure in an interview with our correspondent in Bauchi on Wednesday. Kabir said the commodity was confiscated by the staff of the agency…

  • Why Nigerians don’t go to zoos again— Experts

    Some experts have decried what they called disappearing zoo culture in the country, attributing it to poor maintenance of most zoological gardens and the current state of the nation’s economy. Answering questions during a survey with our correspondent, the experts said that the poor state of the economy had compelled most Nigerians to consider visiting…