The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Friday, December 1, 2017 in Abuja said 10,000 people die annually due to agony and lack of basic equipment for treatment of cancer. Adewole said at the inauguration of the National Hospital’s Radiotherapy Centre with new Multilleave Lenear Accelerator for cancer treatment. He attributed the number of deaths to lack of necessarily equipment and resources to attend to cancer patients. The minister, who described cancer as a worldwide disease that kills more people than the combination of Tuberculosis, infectious diseases and HIV, decried the lack of resources to cushion the effect of cancer.…
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Director-General, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Mr Osita Aboloma, has called on table water producers in the country to adhere strictly to the relevant Nigerian Industrial Standards. Aboloma, who made the call at a one-day workshop organised for Association of Table Water Producers, Osun Chapter on Friday, December 1, 2017 in Osogbo, added that the call became imperative to avoid cholera and other water related diseases. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workshop has as its theme: “Water and its associated production challenges.’’ Aboloma was represented at the occasion by Dr (Mrs) Omolara Okunola, the SON Food/Codex…
South Asia’s ambitious plans to meet its climate targets under the Paris Agreement represent $3.4 trillion worth of investment opportunities in cities and infrastructure by 2030, according to Climate Investment Opportunities in South Asia, a new report by IFC released on Wednesday, December 29, 2017 by IFC, a member of the World Bank Group. Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, which represent 7.38 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, have enormous but untapped opportunities in climate-smart investing in sectors including renewable energy, transport, green buildings, urban water, climate-smart agriculture, and municipal solid waste. The report identifies $3.1 trillion of climate…
As part of a €30 million intervention, the European Union on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 signed a €17.2 million agreement with three United Nations institutions working jointly to reduce the illegal killing of wildlife and the trafficking of wildlife products throughout Eastern and Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean. The new “cross-regional wildlife programme” will focus its activities in the regions’ most important protected areas, national transit points, and in some of Africa’s most important transboundary ecosystems. After signing the agreement at the United Nations Headquarters in Africa, Mr. Stefano A. Dejak, the European Union ambassador to Kenya, said: “Illegal…
Kenya’s Energy Regulator said it has embarked on initiatives aimed at reducing biomass fuel use in the country, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) said on Thursday, December 14, 2017. The commission’s acting Director for Petroleum, Mr Edward Kinyua, said plans were underway to introduce purchase of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) through mobile phones. Kinyua said ERC would also present the introduction of 500 grammes gas cylinder for use by low income earners. “We intend to contribute to the citizen’s wellbeing by ensuring that they use clean energy while cooking as opposed to firewood and kerosene that contribute to death of…
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $300 million (about N108 billion) in grants to support agricultural research which would help poor farmers to adapt to the consequences of climate change. The foundation announced the commitment, which will run between 2018 and 2020, at the One Planet Summit in Paris on Monday, December 11, 2017. The announcement is contained in a statement which was e-mailed to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. The foundation said that the grants would assist farmers to address challenges of rising temperatures, extreme weather patterns (droughts and floods), diseases, poor soil…
The United Nations is to spend $12.3 million in famine prevention efforts in 2018 in Somalia. The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the funds would be disbursed by the Somalia Human Fund (SHF). SHF, is a multi-donor country-based pooled fund established in 2010 to support the timely allocation and disbursement of donor resources to address the most urgent humanitarian needs. Peter de Clercq, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, said the critical funds, part of the SHF Second 2017 Standard Allocation, will support 30 famine prevention projects in some of the worst-affected areas across Somalia. “These SHF…
In line with the New Deal on Energy for Africa, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved $324 million in loan support to two renewable energy projects in Morocco and Côte d’Ivoire that are expected to significantly increase power supplies and keep economic growth on track. Scaling up investments in energy is the African Development Bank Group’s top High 5 priority, in a continent where more than 600 million people do not have access to electricity. The New Deal on Energy for Africa is a partnership-driven effort with the aspirational goal of achieving universal access to energy in Africa by 2025. For Morocco, the Bank’s…
The World Bank has said that over 80 million Nigerians have no access to electricity. World Bank Country Director in Nigeria, Mr. Rachid Benmessaoud, disclosed this on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 in Abuja at the 4th Action Learning Event on Upscalling Mini Grids for low-cost and timely access to electricity. The event was put together by the Rural Electrification Agency (REA). Represented by the World Bank Global Lead, Energy Access, Mr. Mac Cosgrove-Davies, the World Bank Country Director said: “Globally, more than one billion people still lack access to electricity; sub-Saharan Africa is home to about 600 million of these. “In…
A waste management expert, Prof. Oladele Osibanjo, has said public toilets could be used as resource centres for production of biogas, if properly harnessed. Osibanjo, Managing Director of Jawura Environmental Services Ltd and also President, Waste Managers Society of Nigeria (WAMSON), made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Biogas, according to Wikipedia, refers to a mixture of different gases produced by the breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. “Biogas can be produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste or food…