ngrclimatereports February 10th, 2010
Left to right: World Bank Country for Nigeria, Mr. Onno Ruhl; Beverly Warmington, DFID Director for West and Southern Africa; Kaduna State Governor Namadi Sambo; and Helder Muteia, UN Resident Coordinator, at the Aid Effectiveness framework signing in kaduna… today
By: Etim Imisim (Abuja)
Kaduna State Governor Namadi Sambo today signed a Development Cooperation Framework (DCF) with UK Department for International Development, the World Bank and United Nations System in Nigeria. The framework covers all existing and future development partner assistance in the state by the signatories for the 2010-2014 period and may be reviewed in 2012.
Beverly Warmington, Director for West and Southern Africa; Country Director for Nigeria, Onno Ruhl; and Helder Muteia, Resident Coordinator, respectively, represented DFID, the bank and UN (development partners) at a ceremony in Kaduna, the state capital. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports February 10th, 2010
World Bank
The World Bank is to come up with a country-wide support plan to address Nigeria’s alternative energy needs in the immediate and medium term covering 2010-2013.
A workshop organized by the bank today in Abuja is to come up with a comprehensive renewable need for sectors and for the country as a whole. The meeting is a post Copenhagen action and a follow up to a meeting a World Bank team held with Environment Minister John Odey last week. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports February 10th, 2010
IFDC
Agriculture and Water Resources Minister, Dr. Abba Sayyadi Ruma, is today expected to flag off North East chapter of Nigeria Agro Dealer Input Support Project which the International Centre for Soil Fertility and Agriculture (IFDC) has been running since 2008. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports February 10th, 2010
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By Etim Imisim (Abuja)
The British Council in Nigeria and the First City Monument Bank Plc (FCMB) are today on the second of a two-day interfaith seminar on climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Climate change poses a threat to agriculture, livelihoods, social cohesion, etc. in the region. The forum is a follow up to a research done by the council in collaboration with the BBC World Service Trust on perceptions of climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa. One significant finding relates to the understanding of issues and language of climate change, which are very low. The second is that many people in Nigeria and several other countries across the region link climate change to faith, which the researchers term ‘God Frame’. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports February 6th, 2010
Renowned environmentalist, Dr. Newton Jibunoh, is about to create another feat in desert expedition. He has set out with a team of desert explorers on expedition from Lagos with 14 units of Suzuki vehicles, Monday. Justina Okpanku reports for THISDAY that the move is the fourth edition of the London-bound expedition by Jibunoh. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports February 5th, 2010
Midrand, South Africa, February 3, 2010 – The 14th African Union (AU) Summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 25 January – 2 February 2010, decided to strengthen the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) programme by transforming the NEPAD secretariat into an implementation Agency – the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA). Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports February 5th, 2010
14th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union approves the integration of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) into the structures and processes of the African Union including the establishment of the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA) Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports February 3rd, 2010
Minister of Environment, John Odey flags off the Nigeria-Agadez( Niger Republic) Desert Tour in Abuja, February 2, 2010. Photo: Courtesy Federal Ministry of Environment, Abuja.
From Etim Imisim in Abuja
Dr. Newton Jibunoh has flagged off the 2010 edition of his trip across the Sahara Desert which will take three weeks. The veteran traveler and his 50 contestants are pressing on to Agades in Niger Republic before pressing on across the desert to London in a convoy of Suzuki SUVs.
They got the blessings of Environment Minister, Mr. John Odey, yesterday during a ceremony in Abuja to mark the event. Odey commended Jibunoh’s interest in the environment, and said that the 2010 youth expedition is a tool to create awareness and combat the menace of desert encroachment.
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ngrclimatereports February 2nd, 2010
Mr John Odey
Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey, has called on traditional rulers and district heads in the country to take active part in the preservation of the environment as the livelihood of their communities depended on it.
The most crucial environmental challenges in the country, and therefore their solutions, lie in the villages and rural communities, he added.
The minister made the call in Gashua at the weekend when he inaugurated projects under the North East Zone Arid Development Programme in Yobe State. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports January 29th, 2010
By Etim Imisim (Abuja)
Improvement in oil sector management was among reasons the International Development Association, a good will arm of the World Bank offering concessionary loans to poor countries, and the International Monetary Fund gave full debt relief of US$1.9 billion for the Republic of Congo. Continue Reading »
