Apr 4, 2012 | Armsfree Ajanaku
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.
Jan 23, 2012 | Armsfree Onomo Ajanaku
Armsfree looks into the link between Nigerian fuel subsidies and the recent food price protests, and speaks with the Nigerians affected by these changes.
Dec 2, 2011 | Armsfree Onomo Ajanaku
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.
May 17, 2011 | Ugochi Anyaka
Nigerian reporter Ugochi Anyaka witnesses the effects of massive soil erosion and hears possible solutions.
May 17, 2011 | Anna Egan
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…
Feb 10, 2011 | Panos London
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.
Jan 30, 2011 | Panos London
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.
Mar 2, 2010 | Michael Simire
In Nigeria's Delta State, the UN is funding schemes to supply electricity to rural areas using waste gas usually burnt at oil wells.
Dec 17, 2009 | Panos London
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.
Apr 29, 2009 | Michael Simire
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.