Nigeria’s acute problems within its energy sector and the proposed solutions have generated numerous debates and elicited countless newspaper columns over the years; not to mention the huge amount of taxpayers’ money gone down the drain trying to revive it. However, in the midst of this darkness, there seems to...

Opportunities for making the trade safe and environmentally sound, while still keeping it profitable Like many waste streams in Nigeria, the ULAB waste stream has the potential to contribute to being a source of growth and employment. In the case of ULAB in particular, the value chain is well organised...

MasterCard Foundation’s Fund for Rural Prosperity 2017 – Deadline August 10 The MasterCard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity (FRP) is seeking applications for its 2017 Competition to support innovative financial products, services or processes from organizations that will design, pilot and test new ideas, as well as those that aim...

The Department of Climate Change (DCC), Federal Ministry of Environment, and the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) convened a two-day conference educating stakeholders on government’s intended areas of funding via the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Nigeria’s priority areas of project proposal funding include the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency and Coastal...

Access to reliable and affordable energy in four West Africa countries will be transformed once a new 1303 km electricity inter connector, inaugurated on Sunday, June 4, 2017 on the sideline of the ECOWAS Heads of State Summit in Monrovia, is operational. The first cross-border energy supply between Cote d’Ivoire,...

Great New Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited confirms to join ASEC2017 ! Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) is a parastatal  organization under the Ministry of Energy and Minerals. The company generates,transmits,distributes and sells electricity to Tanzania  Mainland and sells bulk power to the Zanzibar Electricity Corporation (ZECO) which in turn...

Last year was one of optimism for environmentalists and sustainability practitioners all over the world. The mass acceptance of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by national governments, investors and corporations alike finally showed that global and diverse parties were ready to work together to reduce the...