Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tunji Bello has hailed Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for his works in reinvigorating the environmental sector of the state. He stated that the administration has restored the mandate of its agencies and making…
The Lagos State Government took to the streets over the weekend to carry out an inspection of some ongoing drainage clearance and dredging projects in the state. This was as the government restated its commitment towards ensuring that it is…
By Oyetunde Oluwatobi | Responding to the realities of climate change has been more of political rhetorics than real-life action in Nigeria. While this continues to build into a disastrous future for the country, the government is ignoring the early…
Shoppers in Jakarta will soon be unable to carry their groceries in single-use plastic bags as the Jakarta administration has issued a long awaited gubernatorial regulation banning such plastic bags from traditional and modern markets starting June this year. The regulation…
The High-Level Segment of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 kicked off on Tuesday, with urgent reminders that the international community is running out of time to effectively tackle the climate crisis and must change course and step up ambition…
Japan and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) would be conducting a mercury survey of landfill facilities in Nigeria by the year 2020 in order to mitigate air pollution in Nigeria. Idea Consultants of Japan is collaborating with the Federal…
By Paul Omorogbe – THE world as we used to know it changed forever in 2007. It was the year that the first commercially successful smartphone came to be, the Apple Iphone. Since, then smartphone applications called ‘apps’ for short began…
The Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA) has called on citizens of Lagos State to imbibe the culture of recycling. This is as it reinstated its unwavering commitment to a cleaner environment through its buy-back campaign on recyclable waste launched at Orile…
...Taiwo Adewole, an environmentalist has urged the Federal Government to collaborate with Local Governments on its ‘“Clean Nigeria Campaign’’.
Since the dawn of Nigeria’s oil boom era in the 1970s, the people of the Niger Delta region have had to face its devastating consequences. With more than 12,000 oil spills in the last 50 years, the region’s formerly pristine…
