Nigerian Times

'Disarming The Greens' introduces 'Asia,' a green activist and campaigner for the poor ROME, Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today Libertiamo's 'Disarming The Greens' campaign released 'Asia,' a short animation video about an environmental activist who after years of radicalization has finally realized that in order for the developing world to prosper, they require the liberty to utilize and market their own natural resources. "The world is still poor, and where there is poverty there is pollution..." "... numerous children suffer from malnutrition and other diseases..." 'Asia' personifies an environmental activist who understands that through preventing economic development, radical greens only end up prolonging the suffering of the people they claim to help in the continent. Rather than fighting against economic development, 'Asia' notes that Asian nations can overcome both extreme poverty and environment...

The World Bank has noted that Nigeria is at a crossroads in a special Growth Employment and Markets in States (GEMS) Project report. The country can choose to tackle the distortions that have reduced incentives for investment and productive activity and move towards sustainable and diversified growth. It can also build on islands of success and promising cluster initiatives and enclaves that can then pull along the rest of the economy (successfully achieved in China and India) or it can ignore the reform imperatives and pay the price of having a highly distorted, rentier economy, once oil prices fall. Click here for the full report Tweet

Children carrying water near gas flares at Shell`s Obigbo oilfield, near Port Harcourt, Nigeria. PHOTO: Peter Roderick, www.climatelaw.org Environment Health and Safety Regulations on the Rise in Africa BRUSSELS and WASHINGTON, April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Enhesa presented a webinar in March on the explosion of EHS regulations throughout Africa. As a result of increasing opportunities for investment, many companies have decided to open facilities in African countries. Over 250 EHS professionals from a broad spectrum of industries attended the webinar. Participants were asked to complete an on-line questionnaire. Overwhelmingly the main concerns of attendees were understanding regulations and creating a culture that cared about EHS issues. Enhesa unveiled its EHS Regulatory and Enforcement Matrix. In order to comprehensively understand the developments and trends of EHS requirements in Africa, consultants analyzed the number of EHS issues regulated, whether there are effective E...