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Indigenous Knowledge Central to Climate Change Solution

Indigenous Knowledge Central to Climate Change Solution

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Development practitioners must do away with the arrogant belief that they have superior knowledge over issues that affect communities. In designing a community intervention approach, overall participation in the process is fundamental. In doing that, community involvement rooted in indigenous knowledge brings acceptability, success, and sustainability. In designing Climate Change Solutions, indigenous knowledge integration and …

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Nigeria pursues property tax for Land Value Capture

Nigeria pursues property tax for Land Value Capture

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The Nigerian state says it will pursue LAND VALUE CAPTURE through property tax as a way to raise money from land dealings for infrastructural development and to solve the housing deficit. The state says it will pursue LAND VALUE CAPTURE vigorously by charging owners of completed, unoccupied houses triple ground rents. Ground Rent in Nigerian …

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How Home Grown Initiative is Addressing Nigeria Energy Transition

How Home Grown Initiative is Addressing Nigeria’s Energy Transition

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Local transformative initiatives in Borno and Kogi states of Northeast and North-central Nigeria are addressing energy transition that is moving away from fossil fuel and addressing climate change. Phoenix Renewables Limited, led by Mr. Mustapha A. Gajibo is making a remarkable effort in the Nigeria Energy Transition targeted at phasing out fossil fuel and embracing …

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Farmers in Anambra bear Climate Change burden

Farmers in Anambra bear Climate Change burden

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Farmers in Anambra state have continued to bear the climate change burden. Flooding as a result of rising sea levels caused by climate change, led to the destruction of more than 2,500 chickens in a poultry farm in Anambra state, Southeast Nigeria. The Matuuci Farms Ltd located at Agbobo Umuoga Ossomala Community in the Ogbaru …

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Nsukka Women Farmers Worse Hit by Climate Change

Nsukka Women Farmers Worse Hit by Climate Change

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Women farmers who cultivate Pepper at Edemu Ani community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Southeast Nigeria, appear to be the worst hit by shortage of rainfall as a result of climate change. The women who cannot drill boreholes for irrigation farming and are largely dependent on tanker drivers to water their farms …

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Why investment in climate justice advocacy is fundamental

Why investment in climate justice advocacy is fundamental

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Our experience has shown that poor funding is making environmental justice Organizations struggle in their climate justice advocacy. This poses a challenge to them, making them not to effectively carry out evidence-based advocacy and analysis that will help to communicate Climate Change in a way that will resonate with the people for adaptation and resilience …

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Why Community voice must be at centre of climate justice

Why Community voice must be at centre of climate justice

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Approaches to addressing climate justice, often neglect community voices while outsourcing issues of advocacies, mitigation, and adaptation to experts who do not have an understanding of how the communities are impacted by climate change. Community voice must be at the center of CLIMATE JUSTICE since over one billion people globally live in informal settlements. Many …

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Food processing empowers Nigeria’s rural woman

Food processing empowers Nigeria’s rural women

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Rural women in Nigeria are tackling poverty through the processing of Garri, a creamy-white or yellow granular flour made from fermented, gelatinized fresh cassava tubers. A popular staple food that is eaten in many homes in Nigerian and West Africa. The rural women are making money through the processing of Garir, with some of them …

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Enugu community children learn under miserable pitiable condition

Enugu community children learn under miserable pitiable condition

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Children of the Isigwe Ugbawka, in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, are learning under pitiable miserable conditions. In pictures shared by Tracka, a public accountability organization, the children were seen with their teacher receiving lessons while sitting on the floor in a classroom that was nearly collapsing on their heads. From Tracka’s …

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Dutse Alhaji's first gate becomes terribly deplorable

Dutse Alhaji’s first gate becomes terribly deplorable

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Dutse Alhaji’s first gate located directly opposite Zenith Bank on the right-hand side when driving from Abuja – city centre to Bwari Area Council of FCT has become terribly deplorable. The terrible portion of the road that is less than two kilometres from First Gate to the popular Koro Mosque has become a predicament for …

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