By Mary Bassey, House of Assembly Correspondent The Bill to establish the State Forest Research Institute has been read for the second time on the floor of the Cross River State House of Assembly. The motion for the second reading was moved by the sponsor of the Bill and member representing Boki 1 State Constituency,
REDD+ is perhaps one of the most celebrated and promising climate change mitigation programs under the UNFCCC frameworks. Touted as a ‘nature-based solution’, REDD+ has been widely propagated as a safe and prudent strategy to curb carbon emissions and mitigate climate change. However, the implementation of REDD+ in Nigeria proved counter-productive, with adverse implications for
By Jonathan Ugbal and Maxwell Effiong Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Mali, Soni Abang last weekend called for drastic action from communities over the massive logging going on in Eastern Boki local government area of central Cross River State. Abang, a former two-term Chairman of the People Democratic Party in Cross River State said the level