Africa to benefit from Denmark backed 'EW4All for Africa' - NaijaAgroNet

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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said that Africa would benefit from the Early Warnings for All Initiative (EW4All) project by Denmark, reports NaijaAgroNet.

WMO also revealed that EW4All has a bold vision of a world in which every individual is protected by life-saving Early Warning Systems (EWS) by 2027.

Seeking to work more coherently across the full EWS value chain, the EW4ALL initiative is led by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), each leading one of the four pillars, relevant to their mandated expertise.

Rotary club commissions borehole @Oremeji-Oshodi - NaijaAgroNet

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The Rotary Club of Ikeja has commissioned a borehole at the Oremeji community Adeyemi-Arowojobe Community Development Association (AACDA)(AACDA) in Oshodi-Lagos State, reports NaijaAgroNet.

Rotary International comprises members imbibed with the spirit of humanitarianism are giving freely their talent, their treasure and their time to the needy in the society. This project has alleviated the pains of the masses by the President of the District who attracted the project to the residents having seen what his residents go through in trying to buy water from shylock water sellers.

Making of visionary dairy farmer, Josephine Kimonyi - NaijaAgroNet

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Madam Josephine Kimonyi before moving to a small village in southeast Kenya called Ngumu, was busy working and raising her five children in urban Nairobi. 

Then realized she, wanted more for her family than the city could provide. Determined to make a change, Josephine took a leap into farming. Excerpts courtesy Gate Foundation.

A Kenyan entrepreneur finds promise in a special breed of cow—and makes a bold investment.

WED'24 employee session: Airtel promotes plastic reduction - NaijaAgroNet

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Leading telecommunications network, Airtel Nigeria marked World Environment Day by hosting an insightful session aimed at educating employees on the practice of tackling plastic pollution. The event was held on Tuesday, 4th May, 2024, at Airtel Head office, Banana Island, Lagos.

Chief Executive Officer at Airtel Nigeria, Carl Cruz, represented by Director, Corporate Communications and CSR, Femi Adeniran, stated in his introductory remark that Airtel believes in leading by example, and has taken deliberate measures to ensure that the organization promotes a healthy environment.

WWFN: Sea ruling law, milestone on climate and ocean action - NaijaAgroNet

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The World Wide Fund (WWF) strongly supports the new Advisory Opinion published by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which for the first time at a global level defines the legal obligations of states to act on climate change to protect marine ecosystems.

These obligations arise under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which 164 UN member states and the EU are parties.

Technologies to safeguard plants in 21st century - NaijaAgroNet

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has involved scientific approaches, innovation, and the latest technologies on plant production and protection, reports NaijaAgroNet.

This, NaijaAgroNet gathered includes supporting governments to conserve plant genetic resources and develop viable seeds and stress-resistant crop varieties to increase crop productivity.

FAO focuses on technology importance for IDPH - NaijaAgroNet

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The 2024 International Day of Plant Health is attracting shining light on the importance of leveraging innovation to protect plants by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), reports NaijaAgroNet.

FAO also said that focusing on technology importance at this time has become indispensable essential for sustaining life on earth.

Taxes, royalties: Shell Nigeria paid $1.09bn in 2023 - NaijaAgroNet

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The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) received in taxes and royalties the total sum of $1.09 billion, about N2,707,310,000,000.00 trillion, as at December 2023 through the operations of The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company of Nigeria Ltd (SNEPCo.) in the country, reports NaijaAgroNet.

Sources close the Shell Nigeria, disclosed that the figures, recently published in the 2023 Shell Briefing Notes, showed that SPDC paid $442 million, while SNEPCo remitted $649 million.

Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority gets new MD/CEO @Woke - NaijaAgroNet

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President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Engr. Chukwuemeka Woke as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority (OORBDA), reports NaijaAgroNet.

Engr. Woke is a seasoned engineer and politician. He had served as Chairman of Emohua local government area of Rivers State and was Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, for many years.

COP28 targets triple renewables by 2030 - NaijaAgroNet

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Communiqué from G7 Ministers’ Meeting on Energy, Climate and Environment calls on IRENA to track the group’s collective contribution to COP28’s global target to triple renewables by 2030

The G7 leaders tasked the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to track and monitor the group’s collective contribution toward the global renewable tripling target by 2030. The target was established by the UAE Consensus last November at COP28, aligning global climate ambitions with IRENA’s 1.5°C pathway, mapped out by the Agency’s World Energy Transitions Outlook.