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By Dayo Johnson – Akure The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has warned that 28 states are at risk of flooding due to impending heavy rainfall. The agency’s Director, Operations in charge of Ekiti, Ondo and Osun states, Olusegun Afolayan, gave the warning in Akure after sensitising some residents on how flooding could be avoided
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Over 300 African and international organisations and individuals, on the platform of the African Climate Justice Group, have signed a statement calling on African governments and institutions to respond urgently to the climate, health and COVID-19 crises facing Africa.
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Community Development Advocacy Foundation, CODAF, also known as Rural Community Empowerment Initiative, an NGO, has called on the Federal Government to halt proposed plans of opening up more mining fields.
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By Davies Iheamnachor The people of Aggah community, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State and Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, are at daggers drawn over modalities for implementation of a contract to halt the raging flood that submerges the locality annually, in the last 40 years. NDV learned that officials of company and community
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Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted rainy, thundery weather activities from Saturday to Monday. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Friday in Abuja said the atmosphere was predominantly wet due to thunderstorms activities earlier during the morning hours. According to the agency, pockets of thunderstorms were being observed over parts of the north, central, and south
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Arcing eastward across Africa and Asia, it reached “maximum eclipse” — with a perfect solar halo around the Moon — over Uttarakhand, India near the Sino-Indian border at 12:10 local time (0640 GMT). More spectacular, but less long-lived: the exact alignment of the Earth, Moon and Sun was visible for only 38 seconds. In Nairobi,
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Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India, and southern China will witness on Sunday the most dramatic “ring of fire” solar eclipse to shadow the Earth in years. Annular eclipses occur when the Moon — passing between Earth and the Sun — is not quite close enough to our
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By Kingsley Adegboye with Agency report The perception from some quarters that nature is getting a break during the COVID-19 pandemic is not true. Instead, many rural areas in the tropics are facing increased pressure from land-grabbing, deforestation, illegal mining, and wildlife poaching, according to World Economic Forum in a report. The report noted, however,
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The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudy and thundery activities over the country from May 31 to June 2. NiMet`s weather outlook released on Saturday in Abuja said thunderstorms were reported over the central cities down to the south of the country. The agency said current observation showed that moisture was still much up
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Africa is the only continent in the world where deforestation is accelerating, according to key findings of a five-year report released Thursday by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In South America, where some countries have been blamed for rampant forest exploitation, the rate of forest loss was halved over the last decade.
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