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Climate scientists often lack the information they need for their climate models. A master's student helped to find important figures from Africa's most populous country—Nigeria.
Climate resilience in Nigeria still feels like a conversation reserved for Lagos, Abuja, and development conferences. However, there is a path forward, and the solutions are not complicated.
An Abuja-based policy think tank, Agora Policy, said climate change poses severe and multiple threats to Nigeria’s current and future development. In a maiden report titled “Climate Change and ...
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, there were over 5,400 SEZs in 147 countries as of 2019, with approximately 1,000 of them established between 2014 and 2018 alone.
Torrential rains in Mokwa, Nigeria, have caused severe flooding, killing at least 111 people. The disaster highlights the urgent need for infrastructure improvements.
Although Nigeria has an existing climate change policy, it has not been significantly felt due to climate change knowledge gaps among the states and vulnerable communities in the country.
Nigeria passed a climate change act in 2021 with a target to develop carbon tax and carbon trading. But the government’s continued reliance on oil and gas poses a challenge to its net-zero ambitions.
The Minister of Regional Development, Engr. Abubakar Momoh, has raised the alarm that Nigeria is getting increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
As the primary regulatory body overseeing operations within Nigeria’s Oil and Gas Free Zones, OGFZA plays a critical role in national economic growth. The Authority’s mandate includes administering, ...
The spill from the 180,000-barrel-a-day, which happened at Eleme in Rivers State in south Nigeria, was detected on June 11. Four days later it was confirmed by Shell Petroleum Development Company ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Torrents of predawn rain unleashed flooding that killed at least 111 people in a market town where northern Nigerian farmers sell their wares to traders from the south ...