Calabar — With Nigeria losing over 500,000 hectares of forest yearly to deforestation, experts have called for the repeal of the Land Use Act in the country.

More than 500 members of the Maasai and Ogiek communities in Narok and Nakuru counties have given the Kenya Forest Service 14 days to issue them with logging licences.

The Ebola virus that raged in the West African state of Liberia is now all but history as World Health Organisation (WHO) and other leading diseases control organisations witnessed the declaration

The Ondo State government has declared that the strange disease that broke out in Ode Irele in Irele local government area of the state has been completely eradicated from the community.

Farmers around Mt Longonot National Park have asked the Kenya Wildlife Service to stop wild animals from invading their farms.

A medical professional body, Nutrition Society of Nigeria, NSN, on Thursday said 49 per cent of women of reproductive age in Nigeria have anaemia with 24.3 per cent of them having low iron stores a

The weekly diseases surveillance report of the Ministry of Health and Child Care shows that 12 people have died of diarrhoea throughout the country, bringing the death toll so far this year to 183.

The African elephant risks being extinct by 2025 if urgent action is not taken, an animal trust has said.

The county government has finalised plans to produce solar energy to lower power costs and attract investors.

The National Assembly Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has launched investigations into to the smuggling of three tonnes of ivory through the Mombasa port that was seized in Thailand.