The Country Director of WaterAid, Dr ChiChi Aniagolu-Okoye said in Abuja on Tuesday that shrinking of Lake Chad would threating livelihoods of people in the region and raises the need for improved strategies to manage the water resource to remedy losses, WaterAid has said. “Lake Chad, the largest fresh water reservoir, is an important resource shared by Nigeria and other benefiting countries within the region. The lake sustains a lot of people, who are largely farmers, fishermen and livestock breeders. The speedy shrinking of the basin is threatening the resources and livelihoods of millions of people who are living there.…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
China has met its 2020 carbon intensity target three years ahead of schedule last year, the official Media agency reported on Tuesday, citing the country’s top climate official Xie Zhenhua. China cuts its 2005 carbon intensity level, or the amount of climate-warming carbon dioxide it produces per unit of economic growth, by 46 per cent in 2017, Xie told forum in Shanghai on Tuesday. China is the world’s biggest energy consumer. Carbon intensity fell 5.1 per cent in 2017 compared to the previous year, the media said, suggesting that China’s war on pollution also helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions. China…
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted partly cloudy weather conditions over the central states of the country on Tuesday morning with sunny and hazy conditions over Yola. The Agency’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Monday also predicted day and night temperatures in the range of 31 to 38 and 21 to 24 degrees Celsius respectively. According to the agency, the southern states would experience partly cloudy to cloudy morning with day and night temperatures in the range of 31 to 36 and 22 to 26 degrees Celsius respectively. It also predicted prospect of localised…
The Kano state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Kabiru Getso said on Monday that the state recorded over 7,000 cases of Tuberclosis (TB) with 21 deaths in 2017. He revealed at a Press conference to mark the World Tuberclosis Day in Kano that the state government had every plan to reduce TB burden in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “With the support of development partners, the state was able to expand DOTs centres from 381 in 2016 to over 500 in 2017,” he said adding that the state government had increased access to diagnostic equipment and services from 86 to 199…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja inaugurated the National Food Security Council with a pledge to develop new programmes that would create more jobs in the agricultural sector. Pledging that his administration would remain focused in securing the nation’s food requirements and employment for the people especially the youths, he added that the country’s exploitation of critical job-creating sectors, which had been ignored for decades, was beginning to yield results as his administration had introduced the National Social Investment Programme. “We shall also develop new programmes and projects that will protect and indeed, create more jobs in farming, fisheries, animal…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja presided over the meeting of the National Food Security Council preparatory to its inauguration by him later in the day. Those in attendance at the meeting include the governors of Kebbi, Taraba, Plateau, Lagos, Ebonyi and Delta states. Others were the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha; the Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari; the National Security Adviser, retired Babagana Monguno and seven ministers; the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olanisakin; governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); directors-general of the Department of State…
An inferno on Monday razed down a multi-million Naira Reference Laboratory Centre at the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Training Centre ( NTBLC) in Zaria, Kaduna State. The burnt reference centre is one of the best in Africa fully equipped with functional facilities for the test of HIV, leprosy and malaria among other diseases. The fire which lasted for about three hours was later brought under control by fire fighters. However, the cause of the fire was not yet ascertained. When contacted, the Principal of the centre, Dr Labaran Shehu declined to comment, saying, “the cause of the fire is yet…
Oyo State Government has offered free screening and treatment to individuals with persistent cough suspected to be Tuberculosis in all its health care facilities across the state. The Commissioner for Health in the state, Dr. Azeez Adeduntan said on Sunday in Ibadan while celebrating the 2018 World Tuberculosis Day with a theme: “Find and notify all TB cases in Nigeria” and the slogan is “Wanted: Leaders for a TB free world”. He said that the free screening and treatment were initiatives of Governor Abiola Ajimobi administration aimed at reducing the spread of TB in the society. Adeduntan added that all health…
Six people have reportedly died in a landslide that occurred at Kalmalo village of Illela local government area of Sokoto state. AsheNews gathered that the incident occurred while the victims were excavating sand in a communal effort to build a house for a friend who was planning to get married. Hamza Illela, who witnessed the incident said that one person escaped unhurt when the site caved in on the deceased persons that included Bashar Dalhatu, Bashar Maciji, Bashar Buhari, Isah Amadu, Abdullahi Salihu and Bilyaminu Jadi. ‘‘It is part of our tradition that whenever one of us wants take his first wife, his friends…
The Kogi state Agricultural Development Project (ADP) on Saturday embarked on an intensive training for registered cassava, cashew and maize farmers on “Best Practices in Agriculture”. The Managing Director of the project, Mr Oyisi Okatahi told journalists at the venue on Saturday in Lokoja that the training would cut across the six zonal offices at Aiyetoro-Gbede, Anyigba, Kotonkarfe, Aloma, Osara and Ageva. According to him, the training was part of the Project’s efforts to ensure that farmers in Kogi adopted global best practices that would enhance yield, production and processing, adding that farmers needed to pay attention to some key areas…