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React To The New Diplomat's Investigation... Insist Lagosians Have Human Rights To Clean Water Few days after The New Diplomat published an investigation, revealing scam around the N1.6bn water rehabilitation contracts awarded by the Lagos Water Corporation in 2017 and 2018, stakeholders in the water sector in Nigeria have asked the Lagos state government to…
October 10, 2019
In the last two years, residents of Akoka community in Lagos have watched helplessly as petrol from a corroded underground tank belonging to Total Petrol station (Total Nigeria Plc) located in the community continues to seep into the underground water in the area making residents who must use the water to get by everyday to…
October 7, 2019
Every 6pm, Chima Jacob must close his mechanic workshop if his family must get water to stay the next day as his wife waits to prepare dinner at home. The tap that he fetches from is located at a building, three streets away to his rented apartment in Shasha, Alimosho local government area in Lagos.…
September 26, 2019
Several gassroot movements that have been mobilizing on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly Climate Action Summit in New York had carpeted CEOs of oil corporations for their extractive activities that have continued to harm the environment and man, saying their failure to take responsibility has fuelled the climate crisis, now at a…
September 24, 2019
Dorian, Dorian, And so came pouring rains, Awninged clouds and comingled winds, An alchemy; ruthless, with ominous potency. August’s cruelty seemed passé, As Dorian’s awesome squall arrived, Unto September it stalled to connive, Wobbling its eye over island divides, Before brandishing its high Category Five, Uncontrollable Nature pelting rain pebbles, As if in rebuke for…
September 8, 2019
27-year-old Nigerian, Joy Egbe, has won a 'Green Ticket' to participate at the first ever United Nations Youth Climate Summit scheduled for 23rd September in New York. Egbe was the only Nigerian selected among the 100 recipients of a 'Green Ticket' out of a pool of more than 7,000 applicants from across the world…
August 25, 2019
Petition Somolu Reps Member... Fault LASEPA's Report For residents of Akoka community in Lagos, drinking water from taps is like consuming a poisonous substance as the water gushing into their homes is still thoroughly laced with toxic chemicals from Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, despite several efforts in the past to seek redress.…
August 12, 2019
The heat wave that scorched Europe last week has broken another record: The reading of 101.7 degrees Fahrenheit in Cambridge, England, was the United Kingdom’s all-time highest temperature, scientists officially announced Monday. This breaks the previous record of 101.3 degrees, which was set during the August 2003 heat wave. The temperature was recorded Thursday and confirmed Monday…
July 30, 2019
Towards developing a sustainable environment, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) in partnership with National Parks Service (NPS) has embarked on fruit trees planting in community schools in Edo State. According to the NCF, the need to build the culture of tree planting and re-greening the environment birthed the tree planting project in Udo community, Ovia…
July 29, 2019
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React To The New Diplomat's Investigation... Insist Lagosians Have Human Rights To Clean Water Few days after The New Diplomat published an investigation, revealing scam around the N1.6bn water rehabilitation contracts awarded by the Lagos Water Corporation in 2017 and 2018, stakeholders in the water sector in Nigeria have asked the Lagos state government to…
October 10, 2019
In the last two years, residents of Akoka community in Lagos have watched helplessly as petrol from a corroded underground tank belonging to Total Petrol station (Total Nigeria Plc) located in the community continues to seep into the underground water in the area making residents who must use the water to get by everyday to…
October 7, 2019
Every 6pm, Chima Jacob must close his mechanic workshop if his family must get water to stay the next day as his wife waits to prepare dinner at home. The tap that he fetches from is located at a building, three streets away to his rented apartment in Shasha, Alimosho local government area in Lagos.…
September 26, 2019
Several gassroot movements that have been mobilizing on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly Climate Action Summit in New York had carpeted CEOs of oil corporations for their extractive activities that have continued to harm the environment and man, saying their failure to take responsibility has fuelled the climate crisis, now at a…
September 24, 2019
Dorian, Dorian, And so came pouring rains, Awninged clouds and comingled winds, An alchemy; ruthless, with ominous potency. August’s cruelty seemed passé, As Dorian’s awesome squall arrived, Unto September it stalled to connive, Wobbling its eye over island divides, Before brandishing its high Category Five, Uncontrollable Nature pelting rain pebbles, As if in rebuke for…
September 8, 2019
27-year-old Nigerian, Joy Egbe, has won a 'Green Ticket' to participate at the first ever United Nations Youth Climate Summit scheduled for 23rd September in New York. Egbe was the only Nigerian selected among the 100 recipients of a 'Green Ticket' out of a pool of more than 7,000 applicants from across the world…
August 25, 2019
Petition Somolu Reps Member... Fault LASEPA's Report For residents of Akoka community in Lagos, drinking water from taps is like consuming a poisonous substance as the water gushing into their homes is still thoroughly laced with toxic chemicals from Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, despite several efforts in the past to seek redress.…
August 12, 2019
The heat wave that scorched Europe last week has broken another record: The reading of 101.7 degrees Fahrenheit in Cambridge, England, was the United Kingdom’s all-time highest temperature, scientists officially announced Monday. This breaks the previous record of 101.3 degrees, which was set during the August 2003 heat wave. The temperature was recorded Thursday and confirmed Monday…
July 30, 2019
Towards developing a sustainable environment, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) in partnership with National Parks Service (NPS) has embarked on fruit trees planting in community schools in Edo State. According to the NCF, the need to build the culture of tree planting and re-greening the environment birthed the tree planting project in Udo community, Ovia…
July 29, 2019
