ENVIRONMENT

………..by Chiamaka Ndubuwa………..even while Nigeria stay focused on Gas as Transition Energy…… Rosario Osobase, Head Commercial Teranis Nigeria limited, a steel production company has said that there is the need for Nigeria to create a pathway to green hydrogen energy even as the country has a focus on gas as it’s transition energy. Osobase maintained that Nigeria”s focus on gas ...

…………by Amaka Ndubuwa……….. African women are now positioning to champion the production and the increase of green hydrogen which requires vast renewable energy usage. The production of renewables by women will be for both domestic market and export to European countries for the next couple of years ahead. This is because the current global energy transition campaign presents a unique ...

UN Secretary General, António Guterres, says the current global economic paradigm of infinite growth based on using up a finite number of resources, such as fossil fuels, will only deliver climate chaos. The UN chief said the paradigm of growth based on fossil fuels would also deliver a “permanent triple whammy of inflation’’ and conflict. Guterres was addressing the Major ...

The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has challenged the jurisdiction of a Federal High Court in Yenagoa to hear a N700 billion oil spill compensation suit filed by members of Aghoro I Community in Bayelsa. The people of Aghoro I in Ekeremor Local Government Area (LGA) in Bayelsa dragged the SPDC to Federal High Court Yenagoa over a May 17, ...

Oando Clean Energy Limited (OCEL) and the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), the Lagos State Government agency responsible for planning, implementing, regulating and franchising sustainable integrated public transport in Lagos, have signed memorandum of Understanding (MoU).to produce Electric Vehicles. The MoU consummated on April 28, 2022, establishes a partnership between OCEL and Lagos State in her journey to becoming ...

Intermediary cities have played a huge role in the actualisation of global development. In recognition of this position, the European Union (EU) has a decision-making associate body where the entire local authorities under the union come together and give their opinion on policies to make sure that whatever is decided is beneficial and makes sense to the local people. More ...

Every year, on June 5, the world commemorates World Environment Day (WED) to celebrate and promote environmental awareness and sustainability across the globe. Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and held annually since 1974, each edition focuses on raising awareness and mobilizing the world to take positive action to protect nature and our planet. The theme for this ...

As part of the Internews’ Earth Journalism Network’s (EJN’s) first wholly remote fellowship opportunity, 10 fellows from across the African continent spent two weeks virtually reporting on the events of the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The UNCCD COP15 was a key gathering ...

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has called on Oil and Gas companies in the country to sensitise host communities and stakeholders on the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act. Okowa said that such sensitisation would help to strengthen ties between host communities, oil companies and other stakeholders to boost oil production in the country. He stated this in his ...

The Rural Electrification Agency with funding support from the Global Environment Facility and the United Nations Development Programme has kicked off a five-year rural electrification project. Tagged, ‘Derisking Sustainable Off-grid Lighting Solution in Nigeria’, direct beneficiaries of the $2.9 million project are estimated at 96,380 persons out of which 47,540 are expected to be women. At the official launch of ...