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Sahara Issue: Benin Reaffirms Support for Moroccan Autonomy Plan
Hespress
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June 20, 2025
HESPRESS English – Morocco News Politics with MAPFriday 20 June 2025 - 22:41 Benin has reiterated its support for Morocco’s Autonomy Initiative as a serious and credible solution to the regional dispute over the Sahara, during the United Nations...
African HE to benefit from UK-funded climate project
University World News
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UNITED KINGDOM-AFRICA African universities are set to benefit from a US$940,000 climate adaptation research project led by the Association of African Universities (AAU) in partnership with the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and the...
Benin envisages mobile wallet launch in inclusive national digital ID push
Biometric Update
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June 18, 2025
Benin has mentioned plans of launching a digital wallet as part of its push to make its national digital ID ecosystem more inclusive and serviceable to citizens and residents. The West African nation has already laid a solid foundation for this...
Benin Flood: Okpebholo Targets Illegal Buildings, Promises Compensation
Information Nigeria
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June 17, 2025
Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has vowed to take decisive action against structures obstructing waterways in Benin City to combat persistent flooding in the state capital. The governor made the statement on Tuesday, declaring that “private...
Natural Disaster: Gully Destroys Part Of Idunmwun-Owina Community, Off Benin-Lagos Road, Edo State
ITV
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June 15, 2025
A devastating gully has consumed several houses in Idunmwun Owina Community,off Benin-Lagos Express Road in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State. Ikponmwosa Ugiagbe, who visited the area reports that the gully if not urgently...
Benin Flooding: Gov Okpebholo Intervenes, Hires Experts To Understudy Prone Areas, Replicate Akwa Ibom Model
Naija News
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June 17, 2025
In a statement signed and made available to Naija News on Tuesday, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor, Fred Itua, said the move was in accordance with the governor’s determination to tackle the ongoing flooding issues facing Edo State,...
Edo State Governor vows to demolish houses, property on waterways in Benin City
The Chronicle News Online
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June 18, 2025
The Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo has threatened to demolish houses and properties built in the Government Reservation Areas in Benin City. DAILY POST reports that the Governor, however, assured that compensation would be paid to property...
Okpebholo: Private, Commercial Houses Built Along Waterways in Benin GRA to Be Demolished
This Day
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June 18, 2025
•Engages experts to understudy flood-prone areas AdibeEmenyonu in Benin City Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has disclosed plans by his administration to begin demolition of private and commercial houses built along waterways to pave...
Flood: Okpebholo vows to demolish houses, property on waterways in Benin City
Daily Post
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June 17, 2025
The Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo has threatened to demolish houses and properties built in the Government Reservation Areas in Benin City. DAILY POST reports that the Governor, however, assured that compensation would be paid to property...
AFSA Urges Global Climate Talks to Prioritize Agroecology for Africa’s Food Future
News Ghana
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June 17, 2025
As the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies convene in Bonn for SB62, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) has launched a policy brief advocating agroecology as Africa’s frontline solution to climate-driven food insecurity. The report reveals...
UN climate chief says crunch talks must deliver
The National News
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The UN climate chief has stressed the “world is watching” as 5,000 delegates gather in Germany for 10 days of crunch talks aimed at protecting the planet for future generations. Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework...
Moving Markets: How Women Traders Transform the Nigeria-Benin Border Economy
Daily Trust
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June 16, 2025
At the buzzing frontier town of Idiroko, located in Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, commerce flows with an intensity that mirrors the unyielding spirit of the women who drive it. Positioned strategically along Nigeria’s border with the...
#UnPlasticAfrica: Airtel Pushes for Plastic-Free Environment
TechEconomy
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June 16, 2025
Advertisements Airtel Nigeria has wrapped up its 2025 World Environment Week campaign, themed ‘Ending Plastic Pollution’, with an employee-driven market clean-up exercise at Elegushi Model Market, Jakande, Lekki, Lagos. The activity was supported...
BOAD reaffirms commitment to energy transition and sustainable agriculture in West Africa
Joy FM
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June 15, 2025
The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has reiterated its dedication to promoting energy transition and sustainable agriculture across the sub-region. Determined to play a leading role in tackling these pressing issues, the bank convened the...
What Happened to Nigeria’s Environmentalists?
Foreign Policy
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On Thursday, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu pardoned and bestowed a national honor on environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa 30 years after his execution. It’s the first time that Nigeria’s government has acknowledged Saro-Wiwa, who was a global...
In Thorns and Crown, Badru redefines Yoruba heritage in textile, bronze
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 21, 2025
Driven by a mission to nurture creativity and celebrate African artists, Absa L’Atelier, together with the South African National Association for the Visual Arts SANAVA, recently unveiled ‘Thorns and Crown’—a solo exhibition by Taofeek Badru, one...
Green business partners: Why Europe should invest in climate-led companies in Africa
European Council on Foreign Relations
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June 12, 2025
Traditional climate finance mobilisation is over. Climate finance models have been following traditional aid models in their reliance on overseas development assistance (ODA) and other sources of grants and concessional public finance. But,...
NOA’s anti-malaria crusade and the power of storytelling
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 21, 2025
With storytelling, street-level campaigns and vaccine advocacy, the National Orientation Agency (NOA) is reshaping malaria prevention in the country’s most vulnerable areas, writes GBENGA SALAU In a country where malaria continues to kill hundreds...
Community seeks Okpebholo, Oba of Benin’s intervention over land ownership crisis
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 10, 2025
Hundreds of youths from the Amagba Adolor community in Oredo Local Government Area on Tuesday staged a peaceful protest at the Edo State Government House and the Palace of the Oba of Benin, over the alleged encroachment and takeover of their...
Development banks to invest $3.4bn to tackle plastics pollution
Gulf Daily News Online
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A group of development banks plans to invest at least three billion euros ($3.4bn) by the end of the decade in tackling plastic pollution in the sea, expanding the scope and financial firepower of what remains the world’s biggest effort to fix the...