•A Niger Delta oil community Lawyers and the Social Development Integrated Centre (Social Action) have called for stronger policy frameworks and systemic structures to advance environmental justice in the Niger Delta and across Nigeria. They made the call at a stakeholder engagement dialogue convened by Social Action to examine environmental j...
•Landslide The President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Ali Rabiu, has warned governments against engaging unqualified persons to handle critical engineering projects, saying such practices could endanger millions of lives. Rabiu gave the warning at the weekend when he inspected the site of a major landslide in Calabar, Cross Rive...
•Oil pollution in Niger Delta Odidi, a host community of OML, 42, in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta, has protested over the oil spill in the area, urging the firm and other relevant agencies to quickly come to fix the problem. They alleged that aquatic lives and their environment were being destroyed by […]
•Members of the Monagboka Community Builders Initiative (MCBI)  A group of Ogoni Women, the Monagboka Community Builders Initiative (MCBI), has demanded meaningful participation of women in ongoing discussions on the possible resumption of oil and gas production in Ogoniland. The call was made during a press briefing by the women-led grassroot...
•An abattoir in Lagos The Lagos State government has called on abattoir and slaughterhouse operators to adopt sustainable waste management practices and explore opportunities to convert slaughtering by-products into economic resources. The Permanent Secretary, Office of Environmental Services, Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water ...
•Global warming Human-induced climate change is exposing up to 560 million children aged between zero and nine years to at least one additional month of dangerous heat every year, with children in South Asia, Southeast Asia and West Africa among the worst affected, a new global study has found. The research, led by Vrije Universiteit […...
•A canal in Lagos Barely two weeks after operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, also known as KAI, rescued four nursing mothers and their children from a dumpsite along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, another five-month-old baby girl and her mother have been rescued from a canal along the same expressway. It was gathered i...
•Thunderstorm The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has forecast cloudy conditions and thunderstorms across several parts of Nigeria today, Monday, August 24, 2026. In the northern states, NiMet said that patches of clouds are expected throughout the morning, while thunderstorms accompanied by moderate rainfall are expected in the afterno...
Floods With climate change predisposing the environment to altering rainfall patterns, rising temperatures and other extreme weather situations, experts have suggested actions that help. The experts who spoke during a climate change and child’s right engagement in Adamawa State, advocated preventive investment against flooding and other climat...
•The collapsed building in Gandun Sarki community, Malam Madori Local Government Area of Jigawa State Two children have died while several others were injured after a building collapsed following a heavy downpour in Gandun Sarki community, Malam Madori Local Government Area of Jigawa State The rainfall, which lasted for more than an hour acros...
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