The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has attributed Nigeria’s high fertility rate to limited reproductive rights and access, rather than cultural preferences alone.
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The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), the Lagos State Government and other stakeholders have urged Nigerians to join hands to beat plastic pollution menace.
The Federal Ministry of Environment has restated its commitment to deal decisively with plastic pollution in order to have a cleaner, greener and more resilient environment.
The Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA) has banned farming activities in open spaces within Bauchi metropolis and other urban cities across the state.
The Climate and Sustainable Development Network of Nigeria (CSDevNet), in collaboration with the African Focus for Youth Development (AFFYD), on Tuesday trained smallholder farmers in Kano on climate literacy to help them adapt to the growing impacts of climate change.
The National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN) has announced that it is cultivating one million cashew seedlings in nurseries across the country, with the goal of distributing them to farmers to enhance national cashew production.
Some medical experts have advocated for a comprehensive national audit of maternal deaths, emphasising the critical role of autopsies in understanding and reducing mortality rates across Nigeria.
The All-Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has said that food production can be sustained if the government deemphasises rain-fed agriculture and promotes dry-season irrigation farming across the country.
In the last five years, I have written five articles on the Nigerian youth and their future, including “Nigerian Youths and Nation’s Future: A Time Bomb Waiting to Explode?” I and II in 2021, and “Nigeria-2023: Crying Aloud for the Youth” I, II, III in 2022. Instead of improving, the situation appears to be deteriorating, prompting updates to my previous articles. Young people are the future of the nation, and the nation’s prospects rely on the quality and quantity of its youth, as they can lead to prosperity or a perilous abyss of decadence with murderous consequences. Nigeria is a country of…
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Monday launched a $29 billion “survival appeal” to address critical global needs, as the agency grapples with the most severe funding shortfall in the history of humanitarian relief.