Environmental experts have recommended intentional tree planting as one of the major ways to mitigate climate change in Nigeria. The experts stated this in Ebenebe, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra state when a non-governmental organization, Green Environment and Climate Change Initiative (GECCI) took the campaign for Building Climate Resilience in agrarian communities to
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As the effect of climate change is heavily affecting Nigerians and people of the world, a Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr Augustine Obiagbaosogu, attributed climate change to deforestation and killing of animals we are supposed to befriend and accommodate. The Catholic cleric who is the Diocesan Health Coordinator and Entrepreneur, Catholic Diocesan Secretariat, Okwuani, Nnewi, Anambra
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PESHAWAR: Five school going children were swept away in flash floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Upper Dir city while returning from school on Wednesday. Residents said bodies of four children were recovered by the locals, whereas, the fifth body was pulled out by the rescue team. A number of houses collapsed and damaged while several
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman has stressed the need for immediate humanitarian and rescue efforts to rehabilitate the aggrieved and flood-hit populations throughout the country. During a briefing on the current flood emergency in the country to reassess the damage caused by recurring and unprecedented floods, the minister said that 830
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President Muhammadu Buhari has, on behalf of Nigeria, signed the Instrument of Ratification of the Doha Amendment of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC). The president’s action in Abuja on Friday makes Nigeria the 144th country to ratify the protocol. In appending his signature to the document, he
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