Business leaders including Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson and Mark Zuckerberg launched a new global clean energy research project on December 1, 2015 at the UN climate summit in Paris. Bill Gates and Zuckerberg announced the Breakthrough Energy Coalition at…
US President Barack Obama said the summit could be a “turning point” in international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent catastrophic levels of global warming. The summit runs from 30 November to 11 December and delegations from the…
CSNews Desk AN estimated 2.9 million people living with HIV/AIDS out of 3.4 million Nigerians diagnosed last year are not receiving treatment needed to suppress the infection. Those affected, most of who are currently living in hiding, are not only…
CSNews Desk An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Tuesday remanded a 41-year-old man, Yusuf Garuba, in prison custody for allegedly defiling a four-year-old girl. Garuba, who resides at No. 29 Adura St., Ijaye, a suburb of Lagos, is being…
By ‘Sola Fagorusi Last week, Nigerians got another unsettling glimpse to the workings of the mind of a part of the country’s leadership. Using #SpeaktoSP, the official twitter handle of the Nigerian Senate, @NGRSenate released series of tweets on the…
World Bank and SVRI announce new grants of up to US $150,000 Deadline: 9 December 2015 The World Bank Group and Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) have jointly announced a new funding opportunity aimed at preventing gender-based violence in low…
CSNews Desk No fewer than seven pupils died on Sunday night when a “mysterious” fire razed the Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS) at Jogana, Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano State. The fire, according to an eyewitness, started at 8.10pm,…
CSNews Desk Researchers in China have found that children who have been left without direct parental care for extended periods of time show larger gray matter volumes in the brain, according to a study being presented today at the…
CSNews Desk Director-General of Delta State Capital Territory Development Agency (DSCTDA), Mr Clement Ofuani, has said that the state government would soon commence the establishment of “green parks and tree corridors” in Asaba, the state capital. The measure was designed…
CSNews Desk The voice of the pan African climate Justice alliance, PACJA- Africans leading civil society organizations in cop 21 Is beginning to echo. In a session that was moderated by PACJA’S programs manager Sam Ogala Samson at the African…
