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The environment matters to public policy and #ThursdayTalks tackles this

The discussion for the third edition of Thursday Talks (May 31) was the environment and the need for active citizens to hold government accountable. Moderated by Usman Alabi (YMonitor), the event…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Opinion: Nigeria’s floods -A call to action on climate change

by Amusa Temitope Victor The rains can no longer be predicted, the simple agrarian African setting is groaning. It seems a curse has hit the land as all seem…

Itunuoluwa 7 years

[The Alausa Blog] LASG says it has cleared over 12,600 tonnes of waste from streets, drains in 10 days

The Lagos State Ministry of the Environment, in collaboration with Visionscape, has cleared over 12,600 metric tonnes of waste from over 80 locations across Lagos State within the last 10…

Itunuoluwa 7 years

[The Alausa Blog]: LASG gives owners of illegal structures in Obalende 48 hours to pull them down

The Lagos State Government today served another 48 hours Abatement Notice, from Tuesday, 25th to Thursday to 27th of July 2017 t o all owners of illegal structures and shanties…

Itunuoluwa 7 years

[The Alausa Blog]: Lagos gives quit notice to owners of properties blocking drainage channels

The Lagos State Government on Sunday has ordered owners of properties erected on drainage channels and impeding the free-flow of water to immediately vacate or risk being removed The Commissioner…

Itunuoluwa 7 years

[The Alausa Blog]: LASG determined to complete all unfinished housing projects

Lagos State Government has demonstrated its determination to complete ongoing housing projects with the mobilization of contractors back to the site in order to reduce the current huge housing deficit…

Itunuoluwa 7 years

[The Alausa Blog]: LASG introduces the Cleaner Lagos Initiative for cleaner environment

Lagos State Government introduces The Cleaner Lagos Initiative for a cleaner environment for all Lagosians. Watch below;

Itunuoluwa 7 years

[The Alausa Blog]: LASG launches cleaner Lagos initiative with 920 environmental sanitation corps

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, Friday, launched the much anticipated new environmental management policy encapsulated in the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI), expressing optimism that the development would drive the State…

Itunuoluwa 7 years

French President Macron and Arnold Shwarzenegger throw jabs at Trump in video

Governor of California and star actor of the “Terminator” film franchise Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a video on his Facebook page, with the President of France Emmanuel Macron Friday, in which…

Azeez 8 years

How Fayose’s govt will use your ‘trash’ to boost state revenue

The Ekiti State Government on Monday said it is making efforts to embark on a waste-to-wealth programme, aimed at recycling all household refuse collected in the state to manure. This was disclosed…

Mazi Emeka 8 years

‘Clean-up of Ogoniland will take 20 years’ – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, revealed that the clean-up of Ogoniland will go on for the next two decades. The President made this known when he inaugurated the Governing Council and…

Mazi Emeka 8 years

#NDCleanup: What Nigerians are saying about Buhari’s visit to Niger Delta

For more than two decades, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) and the people of Ogoni kingdom had agitated for the clean up of their land…

Mazi Emeka 8 years

Buhari to visit Niger Delta

President Muhammadu Buhari will on June 2, 2016 visit the Rivers state to flag off the clean-up of the Ogoni land.| This was disclosed by the Minister of Environment, Amina…

YEditor 10 years

Mess up the environment and get sanctioned – Read how NESREA plans to do this

by Laila Ibrahim The Federal Government has mapped out modalities to implement sanctions against erring companies in the areas of environmental degradation through the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy as…

Op-Ed Editor 10 years

Tarila Marclint Ebiede: President Jonathan is unable to solve the Niger Delta environmental question (Y! PolicyHub)

by Tarila Marclint Ebiede Five years after militancy stopped in the Niger Delta and amnesty was established, little has been done to address the environmental question that partly led to the…

10 years

Opinion: Why the same sex marriage law is necessary

by Dani Ajonu So, what role will criminalization play, in all of this? We can get an idea by observing what happened when homosexual act were decriminalized in most western…

10 years

6 things employees want from their jobs… more than a raise

By Ankush Bahuguna Getting an ideal job is lesser about the profession and more about the satisfaction it gives to the employee. A job that helps an employee evolve as a person and get…

10 years

Orji Uzor Kalu: Strange things are happening in our environment

by Orji Uzor Kalu In its recent report on global pollution, CNN listed Thailand and Nigeria among the most polluted nations in the world. Baffling, isn’t it? But that is…

11 years

Opinion: Young people and climate change in Nigeria

by Hamzat Lawal As the next COP meeting scheduled to hold in Warsaw in November is weeks away, we as young people wonder what is Nigeria’s negotiating position to this…

11 years

Join the debate: 10 things you can (actually) learn from (watching) porn

by Anna Breslaw It is easier to notice this when you are watching it — and then when it happens to you, you'll be aware enough to point it out…

11 years

BREAKING: Pres. Jonathan sacks education, foreign affairs ministers, and 7 others

President Goodluck Jonathan has reshuffled his cabinet, dropping nine ministers. The ministers affected are Ruqayat Rufai (Education); Zainab Kunchi (Power, [state]); Buka Tijani (Agriculture [state]), Shamsudeen Usman (National Planning; Ita Okon (Science…

11 years

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