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Relocate To Higher Grounds Now, Niger Govt Urges Riverine Communities
New Telegraph
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June 19, 2025
Share In a bid to avert further flood disasters, the Niger State Government has issued a warning to communities living along riverbanks and waterways, urging them to immediately relocate to higher grounds. This advisory follows a weather forecast...
AFRICA/UGANDA - “Voices of Peace”: campaign by Sudanese youth to launch a sustainable peace process
Fides
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June 20, 2025
Friday, 20 June 2025 Internet Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – “Stopping the war has become a national demand”. This is the goal of a group of Sudanese youth who have launched the “Voices of Peace” campaign in Kampala, Uganda. Inaugurated on Saturday,...
Terrorism: ECOWAS Strikes Security Deal With Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger
New Telegraph
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June 19, 2025
Share The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has reached an understanding with Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to collaborate on addressing terrorism and violent extremism in the region. President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Omar...
Early humans survived in a range of extreme environments, study says
Castanet
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Photo:AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, Jerome Delay, Matthew Craft This combination of 2007, 2018 and 2012 photos shows, from left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. Humans are the...
NDDC embarks on initiatives to empower women in Niger Delta
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 19, 2025
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has disclosed that it is taking deliberate initiatives to foster inclusion and progress for women in the region. According to the commission, the importance and impact of empowering women on the...
In Côte D’Ivoire a Changing Climate Hits Farmers and Markets Alike
The Good Men Project - California
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June 19, 2025
By Gael Zozoro Towns across Côte d’Ivoire are facing shortages of staple foods like plantain and tomatoes, due to erratic weather. Prolonged drought and heavy rains have affected growers in towns like Soubré, who are struggling to maintain...
‘Fortress Europe’s’ African victims
Mail & Guardian
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July 17, 2025
African refugees and migrants fleeing war and dictatorships in search of safety on European shores. (AFP) Europeans may be horrified by United States President Donald Trump’s draconian immigration policies, which include snatching people off the...
Lagos Govt Seals 10 Establishments Over Alleged Environmental Violation
Information Nigeria
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June 18, 2025
Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, has sealed off several facilities across Lagos Mainland over persistent noise pollution and other environmental violations. The enforcement operation, which took place on Tuesday, was part of the...
Lagos seals hotels, lounges over noise pollution
Punch
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June 19, 2025
The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency intensified its clampdown on environmental violations sealing off several facilities across the Lagos Mainland over persistent noise pollution and other infractions. The affected areas include Aguda,...
Senate to SSDC nominees: Tackle sabotage, environmental, infrastructure crises in South-South
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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June 18, 2025
The Senate, Wednesday, urged the President Bola Tinubu’s nominees to the board of the newly created South South Development Commission (SSDC), to execute developmental projects that would address the issue of economic sabotage, environmental...
Navy Arrests Three Suspected Pipeline Vandals In Niger-Delta
Information Nigeria
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June 19, 2025
An anti-crude oil theft team from the Forward Operating Base (FOB) Escravos, under the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Delta, has apprehended three suspected pipeline vandals and impounded six crude-laden boats. The suspects were caught during a sting...
FG, UNICEF Endorse Three Handbooks as Guide on Climate Change, Mitigation of Violence in Schools
This Day
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June 18, 2025
Kuni Tyessi in Abuja The Federal Ministry of Education, the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF have endorsed three books to enhance the teaching of climate change and the...
Navy intercepts boats with stolen crude, arrests three in Niger Delta
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 18, 2025
The Nigerian Navy has intercepted six boats laden with stolen crude oil and arrested three individuals suspected of vandalising pipelines in the Niger Delta. The operation was conducted by personnel of the Forward Operating Base (FOB) Escravos...
Chinese Foreign Minister meets his counterparts from South Africa, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea-Bissau and other African countries
Friends of Socialist China
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June 18, 2025
Following his June 10 meetings, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his counterparts from South Africa, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea-Bissau, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and...
Lagos Govt Seals Hotels, Churches, Others Over Noise Pollution
Nigerian Eye
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June 18, 2025
The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, has sealed off several facilities across Lagos Mainland over persistent noise pollution and other environmental violations. The enforcement operation, which took place on Tuesday, was part...
Benue’s bloodshed: Beyond ethnic tensions, a triple crisis of climate, politics, and arms, By Ope Oriniowo
Premium Times
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June 18, 2025
Benue’s tragedy is a warning — and an opportunity. If we continue to explain it through the narrow lens of “age-old rivalry,” we will not only fail the people of the state but also lose the broader fight against state fragility in Nigeria. It’s...
Africa’s Trans-Saharan Corridor gains support
Global Highways
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Support is given for Africa’s crucial Trans-Saharan Corridor route. By MJ Woof July 16, 2025 Read time: 1 min Further development of the crucial Trans-Saharan Corridor will deliver economic benefits to Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Niger, Chad, and...
Oil Theft: CDS Urges Community Ownership Of Natl Assets, Lauds PINL
New Telegraph
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July 15, 2025
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa, has called on host communities of the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) to take full ownership of national assets located within their areas and work collectively to safeguard them from...
These foreign illegal miners
Tribune Online
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July 16, 2025
IN recent times, there has been an upsurge in illegal mining activities in Nigeria. Exploiting loopholes in the solid minerals sector, the illegal miners have been robbing Nigeria blind and laughing all the way to the bank. Particularly in recent...
June inflation rate dips to 22.22%, lowest in three months
Punch
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July 16, 2025
The National Bureau of Statistics has reported that Nigeria’s headline inflation rate decreased for the third consecutive month to 22.22 per cent in June 2025, down from 22.97 per cent recorded in May 2025. It was 23.71 per cent in April 2025,...