By Our Correspondent The enforcement unit of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has dislodged scavengers and miscreants from illegal dumpsites across the city. The Managing Director of LAWMA, Mr Ibrahim Odumboni, said in a statement that the agency carried out the dislodgement to ensure a cleaner and healthier environment. In the process of dislodging […]
A three-day national conference to address the ongoing human-wildlife conflict (HWC) in Namibia opens on Wednesday in Windhoek, the country’s capital. Opening the conference, Namibia’s Vice President, Nangolo Mbumba, stressed the need to prioritise development needs of local communities while making efforts to manage HWC. Mbumba added the country must also promote biodiversity conservation and […]
African Development Bank (AfDB), has signed a €362,000 (N177,485,927.72) grant agreement with Hadejia Jama’are Komadugu Yobe Basin-Trust Fund. In a statement, the bank said the grant would prepare additional studies under the second-phase of developing a strategic plan for managing water resources in the Komadugu-Yobe Basin in northern Nigeria. “Specifically, the grant will support the […]
At least seven people died in Tanzania’s part of Lake Victoria infested by crocodiles between Jan. 1, and Feb. 9, officials said on Friday. The officials said most of the victims were residents of Kome Islet on the lake, the world’s largest tropical lake shared by Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. The killings of the seven […]
Kenyan conservation organisation, on Friday, launched a campaign to conserve grey crowned cranes and save them from extinction. Joseph Mwangi, country manager at the Crane and Wetlands Conservation Project, said the grey crowned cranes are threatened with extinction. The grey-crowned cranes are a species of birds that flock in large numbers, anywhere between 30 and […]
The Kenyan Government intends to leverage youth-led forest conservation initiatives in a bid to strengthen the capacity of grassroots communities to cope with the climate crisis, an official said on Monday. Joshua Cheboiwo, the Director of Kenya Forestry Research Institute, said that tapping into the youthful demographic will help the state achieve an ambitious 30 […]
The Federal Government, on Thursday said it has drilled 150 motorised boreholes to enhance access to safe drinking water in Adamawa State. Alhaji Aminu Sambo, the Controller of Housing, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, announced this during an interaction newsmen, on Thursday, in Yola. He said the government provided motorised boreholes designed with over-head […]