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With 2.8 billion people projected by the United Nations as new addition to the world population by 2050, concerns are mounting on how much of the numbers the planet can bear as human needs continue to stretch it further to its elastic limit. From climate change to sundry challenges bordering on food security and the…
July 16, 2019
The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) is concerned that the US and other Global North countries may be bullying African countries in order to obstruct discussions on fossil fuel industry interference at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. HOMEF is calling on delegates from the African region attending the experts meeting on the…
June 24, 2019
More Nigerians will need to embrace the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), if the plan to reduce air pollution and further cut down on the carbon footprint coming from wood fuel must be actualized. This much formed the thrust of the discussion at a campaign commemorating the 2019 World Environment Day organized by…
June 19, 2019
You would not invite the arsonist who set fire to your house to put it out especially if their solution was adding more kerosene. So why are fossil fuel corporations (the same ones that for decades have derailed progress on climate) pouring such “kerosene” on our planet in the form of dangerous market mechanisms and…
June 14, 2019
Nigeria Should Stop Playing Catch-up, Says 'Friends of the Earth Nigeria' In spite of the growing concerns around the world on how to cut down on the dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill that sought to phase out the use of petrol cars and introduce electric cars on Nigerian…
April 18, 2019
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, on Wednesday said that search engine, Google originated, from the ‘Ifa’ also known as the oracle. NAN reports that Ogunwusi said this during the press tour of the tourists sites within the ancient city ahead of the Tourism Innovation and Development Innovation Conference (TIDA) slated for April 24.…
April 11, 2019
It's grim and Nigerians don't like hard figures, but the statistics are what they are --- four Nigerian cities: Onitsha, Aba, Kaduna and Umuahia were listed among the 20 most polluted cities in the world by the World Health Organization (WHO). "What we're trying to do is to raise the awareness on the implications of…
February 3, 2019
By John Oghojafor The Delta State government has embarked on proactive control measures to checkmate possible flooding following the warnings and alert from Nimet for Nigerians to take necessary precautions to avert disasters as water level rises in different parts of the country. Fielding questions from newsmen in Oghara recently, the State Commissioner for Environment,…
July 4, 2018
Air pollution is responsible for one in five infant deaths in Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries, according to a study published by Stanford University and the University of California, San Diego in the United States. The research team looked at combined data from over 15 years on approximately 1 million births across 30 countries…
June 28, 2018
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With 2.8 billion people projected by the United Nations as new addition to the world population by 2050, concerns are mounting on how much of the numbers the planet can bear as human needs continue to stretch it further to its elastic limit. From climate change to sundry challenges bordering on food security and the…
July 16, 2019
The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) is concerned that the US and other Global North countries may be bullying African countries in order to obstruct discussions on fossil fuel industry interference at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. HOMEF is calling on delegates from the African region attending the experts meeting on the…
June 24, 2019
More Nigerians will need to embrace the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), if the plan to reduce air pollution and further cut down on the carbon footprint coming from wood fuel must be actualized. This much formed the thrust of the discussion at a campaign commemorating the 2019 World Environment Day organized by…
June 19, 2019
You would not invite the arsonist who set fire to your house to put it out especially if their solution was adding more kerosene. So why are fossil fuel corporations (the same ones that for decades have derailed progress on climate) pouring such “kerosene” on our planet in the form of dangerous market mechanisms and…
June 14, 2019
Nigeria Should Stop Playing Catch-up, Says 'Friends of the Earth Nigeria' In spite of the growing concerns around the world on how to cut down on the dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill that sought to phase out the use of petrol cars and introduce electric cars on Nigerian…
April 18, 2019
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, on Wednesday said that search engine, Google originated, from the ‘Ifa’ also known as the oracle. NAN reports that Ogunwusi said this during the press tour of the tourists sites within the ancient city ahead of the Tourism Innovation and Development Innovation Conference (TIDA) slated for April 24.…
April 11, 2019
It's grim and Nigerians don't like hard figures, but the statistics are what they are --- four Nigerian cities: Onitsha, Aba, Kaduna and Umuahia were listed among the 20 most polluted cities in the world by the World Health Organization (WHO). "What we're trying to do is to raise the awareness on the implications of…
February 3, 2019
By John Oghojafor The Delta State government has embarked on proactive control measures to checkmate possible flooding following the warnings and alert from Nimet for Nigerians to take necessary precautions to avert disasters as water level rises in different parts of the country. Fielding questions from newsmen in Oghara recently, the State Commissioner for Environment,…
July 4, 2018
Air pollution is responsible for one in five infant deaths in Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries, according to a study published by Stanford University and the University of California, San Diego in the United States. The research team looked at combined data from over 15 years on approximately 1 million births across 30 countries…
June 28, 2018
