Drugs and other important items worth millions of Naira have been destroyed by flood at the Abia State Primary Health Development Agency along Adelebu Street in Umuahia. Residents of Umuahia had last Friday witnessed a heavy down pour which had started at about 12.23pm and ended at about 4.35pm which occasioned the flooding.
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Organised Labour and Lagos State government are heading for a showdown over plans by the state government to privatized water supply in the state, with labour threatening industrial action among others to force the state government to abandon its plan.
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The Lagos State Government has told the residents of the state that there will be massive cleaning of every neighbourhood as the state observed the first monthly environmental sanitation in 2015. The state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, had stopped the exercise in January to allow Lagosians to collect their Permanent Voter Cards.
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To sail on winds of sunlight has long been a dream of rocket scientists. The Planetary Society, a nonprofit that promotes space exploration, announced Monday that it would send the first of two small spacecraft testing the technology of solar sails into orbit this May, tagging along with other small satellites on an Atlas 5 rocket. “We strongly believe this could be a big part of the future of interplanetary missions,” said William Sanford Nye, the chief executive of the organisation. “It will ultimately eventually take a lot of missions a long, long way.”
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Donor agencies in the country including the World Bank, United Nations systems, DFID and USAID have set up a common platform that would ensure that support targeted at the nation’s environment sector achieve desired results.
The platform co-chaired by World Bank Country Director, Ms Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly and United Nations Development Programme Country Director Dr. Pa Lamin Beyai, said the aim of the coming together was to avoid duplications of support to the country.
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The Lagos State Government has warned against any behaviour that can endanger the preservation of wetlands in the state. The Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, said all residents must work with the government to balance the growth of a strong economy with a development path that would allow the safety of the natural environment. Bello spoke on Friday in Ikeja, Lagos, while hosting students from primary and secondary schools in the state for the 2015 observance of the World Wetland Day.
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The Kogi State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has urged farmers, hunters, cattle breeders and other forest users to desist from bush burning .
Mr Tayo Aremu, the state Commissioner for Environment, made the call in an interview with the Newsmen on Saturday in Lokoja.
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PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has reaffirmed Nigeria’s commitment to building the multinational task force to fight Boko Haram in partnership with neighbouring countries.
The taskforce is in collaboration with Benin Republic Cameroon, Chad and Niger and under the auspices of the Lake Chad Basin Commission.
