2022 UN BIODIVERSTY CONFERENCE AT LAST: FROM NAIROBI, KENYA TO MONTREAL, CANADA

By Edel-Quinn Agbaegbu Here in Montreal Canada, at the venue of the UN Biodiversity Conference, (Palais des Congrès de Montréal). we all witnessed the adoption of the Global Biodiversity Framework, (GBF) as “Nations Adopt 4 Goals and 23 Targets for 2030 in a UN Biodiversity Agreement” to halt the destruction of the Earth’s ecosystems. Prominent […]

EWHC REPORT ON THE OPEN-ENDED WORKING GROUP ON THE POST-2020 GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK

Fourth meeting Nairobi, 21–26 June 2022 By: Edel-Quinn Agbaegbu In line with recent global environmental discussions on climate change, desertification, chemicals and waste, the spotlight is currently focused on biodiversity and its conservation. As nature continues to suffer the impact of biodiversity crisis, there are increased public calls for action to safeguard nature and people. […]

RWANDAN GOVERNMENT HAILS CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR HELPING IT BUILD PEACE

FROM CLARICE AZUATALAM, in Kigali, Rwanda Rwandan government has hailed the Catholic Church for its efforts in helping to build peace in the country since after the 1994 genocide which claimed about 250,000 lives of the people. The commendation was given by Hon. Jean Marie Vianney Gatabazi, the Minister of Local Government Administration, Rwanda during […]

UN AGENCY COMMENDS NIGERIA’S EDEL-QUINN AGBAEGBU, NGO & BIODIVERSITY EXPERT, FOR ROLE IN UGANDA PEER REVIEW

A Nigerian Woman , Mrs Edel-Quinn Agbaegbu , founder of Every WomanHope Centre, EWHC, a popular NGO that specialises in advocacy for foodsecurity and biodiversity sustainably received special commendaon last weekby the Canada based Convenon on Biological Diversity, CBD, an arm of theUnited Naons Environment Program, UNEP, for her role in the agency’sVoluntary Peer Review, […]

Hope Uzodima implicated, arrested in India

India’s Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) has arrested a Nigerian man identified as Hope Uzodima in Mumbai for alleged possession of dangerous weapons. The suspect, a 40-year-old man who lives in Bonkhode village in Koparkhairane was arrested for possession of ivory and a sword cane. Another Nigerian named King Chukwudi Fidelis who is also in police net […]