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…
The NLI Annual Awards is established to recognise and celebrate Nigerian citizens who have made outstanding contributions to the transformative change necessary for the development of Nigeria. By given these awards, NLI seeks to promote values and serve as a…
The Christopher Kolade Symposium brings together eminent, highly-credible, and public-spirited Nigerians to: Discuss a topic of public importance; Encourage transparency and accountability by providing a forum for key stakeholders to engage with the public; Propose practical solutions to national issues…
By Eze Onyekpere Project Nigeria is not working but the leaders and managers are in denial. They do not care and are in a great party mood while Nigeria burns. From the trajectory of developments in virtually all spheres of…
Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI) recently inducted 25 new Associates at the end of its Future Leaders Seminar which held from October 20-23. The Seminar was the 10th in its series, with the support of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s…
It was a sad moment for progressive activists not just in Nigeria; and not limited to the African continent, when news broke out that one of the most revered leaders of the movement had died soon after making a presentation…
