Climate Change

March 27, (THEWILL) – As part of effort in fighting against deforestation in the country, the federal government has called for the use of renewable energy and decarbonisation tools among households. The Director-General of the National Council on Climate Change,...

February 01, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned a multimillion naira Meteorological Institute for Science & Technology and the Climate Change Centre in Katsina state. Minister of Aviation, Sen Hadi Sirika, who disclosed the unveiling on his verified Twitter...

January 17, (THEWILL) - On page 4 of The Guardian newspaper of Tuesday, January 17, 2023, we find a news headline that states: "25m Nigerians at risk of severe hunger in 2023, FAO warns." Under this news headline,...

A member of the House of Representatives, Sam Onuigbo (APC-Abia) has called for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts on the people. Onuigbo made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja...

November 11, (THEWILL) - Part of my nation is underwater. Seasonal flooding is normal in Nigeria, but not like this. Thirty-four of the country’s 36 states have been affected. More than 1.4 million people have been displaced. Together with...

As the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 opens on November 6, 2022, in Egypt, the Federal Government of Nigeria, represented by the Federal Ministers of Environment, Power and Trade has recommended a white paper titled: ‘Trade, Energy...

October 25, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, in Seoul, South Korea, said Nigeria is already experiencing the negative fallout of climate change seen in the flooding of different parts of the country, as well as encroaching...

October 12, (THEWILL) – The impacts of climate change threaten China’s densely populated and economically critical low-lying coastal cities, which are home to an estimated one-fifth of its population and contribute a third of its GDP, the World Bank Group...

September 28, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, in Abuja, charged the National Council on Climate Change to formulate appropriate policies toward achieving green growth and sustainable economic development for Nigeria. Inaugurating the Council before the commencement of the...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 31, (THEWILL) – The 2015 Calabar carnival wasn’t all fun and games. In line with this year’s theme of ‘Climate Change’, Cross River state Governor, Ben Ayade and his wife, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Senator...