The Nigerian delegation at the on-going 19th edition of the Conference of Parties on UNFCCC taking place in Warsaw Poland has expressed support and solidarity with the key demands of African CSOs. Speaking with the media, Mr Salisu Dahiru, the National REDD+…
By: Hamzat Lawal – At the Warsaw stadium, where the ongoing climate talks in being held, delegates, activists, NGOs, and young people are keeping their fingers crossed with high expectations in coming days, leading to the 2015 global climate deal in Paris.…
Following yesterday’s formal establishment of the new Commonwealth Youth Council (CYC), official delegates to the 9thCommonwealth Youth Forum (CYF) today elected the Council’s inaugural nine-member Executive. Ahmed Adamu from Nigeria will chair the new body, which will be the recognised…
BY: MAYOWA ADENIRAN Lagos, NIGERIA – The Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC), an NGO based in Nigeria working on corruption in a letter dated 7th November, 2013 requesting the Nigeria Customs Service to supply the list of beneficiaries of custom…
By: Mayowa Adeniran Lagos – NIGERIA, In a dramatic development, marking a positive change in the advocacy for the respect and promotion of Freedom of Information Act signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011, the Governor of Nasarawa…
By: Hamzat Lawal Africa’s most populous black nation, big producer of fossil fuels, major contributor to gas flaring, my father land, has no negotiator present in the ongoing United Nations climate conference (COP19) taking place in Warsaw, Poland, as expectations are…
By: Robert Muthami Civil society representatives from across the African continent urged Governments to take ambitious action against climate change. These are some of the position issued at a press conference during on-going UNFCCC Climate Change Negotiation at the COP19/CMP19 which…
By Paul Brown in Warsaw One of the Climate News Network editors, Paul Brown, is in the Polish capital, host of the UN climate talks – the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP 19) of the United Nations Framework Convention…
By Eze Onyekpere I had earlier written in support of the national dialogue proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan. Today, the National Advisory Committee on National Dialogue is traversing the nation gathering the opinion of Nigerians on how to proceed with…
Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa has called on African media leaders to “turn a new page and tell the complete and true stories of the African continent.” In a statement delivered at the close of…
