Linking Partners for Niger Delta Development

September 9, 2014

Nigeria Plans $1bn Development Bank Establishment

Reports have established that the Central Bank of Nigeria has granted an Approval‐in‐Principle for the floating of the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) following a successful fund raising of over $1 billion from the World Bank, African Development Bank (AfDB), KfW of Germany and AfB of France.
September 8, 2014

Cross River, W’Bank Disburse N497.2m for Erosion Control

The Cross State Government yesterday presented cheques worth N 497.28 million 8,129.84 through the state Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (CRS NEWMAP) to four contractors for erosion intervention within Calabar Municipality as a partnership between it and the World Bank
September 5, 2014

Makoko Floating School nominated for global Design Of The Year

Al Jazeera’s new series Rebel Architecture uncovers the architects who are shunning the glamour of ‘starchitecture’ and using design to tackle the world’s urban, environmental and social crises. The series premieres on 18 August 2014.
September 3, 2014

Watch ‘Sweet Crude’ – A documentary film about the Niger Delta

Sweet Crude is the story of Nigeria’s Niger Delta – the human and environmental consequences of 50 years of oil extraction and the members of a new insurgency who, in the three years after the filmmakers met them as college students, became the young men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)