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Persuasion, prison and hard cash: how Nigeria is halting rainforest loss

Apr 4, 2012 | Armsfree Ajanaku

Okoikpi inspecting a tree seedling in the Akasanko forest - Armsfree Ajanaku | Panos London

In this article for the Climate Change Media Partnership, Armsfree looks at what is being done in Nigeria to allow local rainforests to begin to grow back.

From melon to haircuts, prices rise for Nigerians

Jan 23, 2012 | Armsfree Onomo Ajanaku

Odutuyo Muibat - Sunday Akinlolu | Panos London

Armsfree looks into the link between Nigerian fuel subsidies and the recent food price protests, and speaks with the Nigerians affected by these changes.

Replanting Nigeria’s tropical forest

Dec 2, 2011 | Armsfree Onomo Ajanaku

Tree-felling has degraded Nigeria's once-rich forests - Bruce Paton | Panos Pictures

Nigeria, once at the heart of the tropical rainforest belt, has lost around 95 per cent of its forest cover and now imports 75 per cent of its timber. But an initiative – which calls on people living around the forest to repair the damage – is underway.

Nigeria: eroded earth swallows up homes

May 17, 2011 | Ugochi Anyaka

A collapsed drain built by the Nigerian government in 1983 to control the floods. Ugochi Anyaka - Panos London

Nigerian reporter Ugochi Anyaka witnesses the effects of massive soil erosion and hears possible solutions.

Ugochi Anyaka

May 17, 2011 | Anna Egan

Ugochi Anyaka - Panos London

Ugochi Anyaka began her broadcasting career as an undergraduate with Imo Broadcasting Corporation in Nigeria. At present, she works for Aso Radio in Abuja and hosts a climate change radio programme Green Angle. She was selected as a Climate Change Media Partnership fellow in 2010: an initiative of IIED, Internews and Panos to improve global…

Linking southern journalists

Feb 10, 2011 | Panos London

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The focus of this project is to increase the availability of original, high-quality articles and broadcasts about life in developing countries written by local journalists.

Climate Change Media Partnership

Jan 30, 2011 | Panos London

Panos Pictures

The media has a key role to play in raising awareness about climate change at both global and local levels. The CCMP project is an exciting programme designed to ensure this will happen.

Polluting gas flares to electrify rural Nigeria

Mar 2, 2010 | Michael Simire

A woman dries tapioca beside a burning Shell gas flare near Warri, Nigeria. There are proposals to use this waste gas for electricity production / George Osodi - Panos pictures

In Nigeria's Delta State, the UN is funding schemes to supply electricity to rural areas using waste gas usually burnt at oil wells.

Awash with climate change

Dec 17, 2009 | Panos London

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This is a brief video with four of the journalists from the Climate Change Media Partnership that went to the UN climate summit (COP15), in Copenhagen in 2009 about their impressions of the conference.

Nigeria tries to save its dry north

Apr 29, 2009 | Michael Simire

As the desert creeps southwards, nomads and peasant farmers in the region have become increasingly locked in conflict / Jacob Silberberg - Panos pictures

In northern Nigeria the desert has started encroaching onto traditional farmland. As a result the Nigerian government, and NGOs, are being forced to explore different agricultural methods and other ways to mitigate the effects of climate change.

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