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Freshwater is valuable, however, of all the water on Earth, only 2.5 per cent is freshwater, says the United Nations.

Regrettable, of all this freshwater, the total usable supply for ecosystems and humans is less than 1 per cent. When demand for water exceeds available supply, it results in water scarcity.

This was made known on Monday by the United Nations Convention to Combat

Chevron Corporation's subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited has confirmed that initial production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has commenced at the Angola LNG project.

Angola LNG is one of the largest energy projects on the African continent.

"First gas at Angola LNG is an important milestone in support of our strategic plan to grow our production," said George Kirkland

A team of IBM experts completing a month-long pro bono consulting assignment has presented recommendations to Lagos State Government to help ensure a more efficient flow of traffic in the city of Lagos with 20 million citizens.

Working with the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, the agency responsible for developing and implementing the state’s transportation blueprint, and

Chinedu Nebo, minister of Power, has said that the divestment of its 80 per cent stake in 10 National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP), when concluded, will overtake gains of the telecommunications sector.

He told audience at a road-show in London, that the present privatization process provides a huge opportunity for international investors who are seeking for viable investment

In this digital age, the backbone of every economy is hinged on Technology with entrepreneurship driving the growth of the entire system.

We see Technology powering every facet of human endeavor, enabling effective governance, empowering security, driving economic and social changes.

No nation especially the developing countries can afford to neglect the importance of

Workers of power holding company of Nigeria (PHCN) have expressed concern about their safety and security of family members in the event of government announcement preceding payment of their severance package.

The workers expression comes on the heels of government pronouncement that it would pay about N384 billion, part of their entitlements this June.

They fear it would

A major multinational study is calling for more research on the pathogens that cause diarrhoea, and better use of existing tools, to help control one of the leading killers of young children in the developing world.

The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS), published in The Lancet last month (13 May), was conducted in seven sites across Africa and Asia over three years, enrolling

Chevron Nigeria Limited has promised a ‘zero’ gas flaring operation in the years ahead, as the world marks this year’s World Environment Day (WED), meant to raise global awareness of the need to take positive environmental action and the importance of preserving our biodiversity; one of Nigeria’s oil majors,

The over 50 years of oil exploration in Nigeria, gas flaring has become one of

West African heads of state will meet, maybe as soon as this month, to adopt a code to fight growing piracy in their coastal waters that would include use of arrests, prosecutions and seizures of ships, the U.N. shipping agency said.

Piracy is on the increase in the Gulf of Guinea region, which includes Africa's No. 1 oil producer Nigeria and is a significant source of commodities

The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has expressed concern over the activties of crude oil thieves and illegal refineries operators in the Niger Delta saying the country is losing $1.6bn annually to oil theft.

The company cited its forced shut down of the Nembe Creek Trunklines NCTL in the Bayelsa State, a facility which produces about 150,000 barrels of crude oil per day and

Federal Government said it has mapped out a 30-year National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan (NIIMP) for the country, in  realisation of the enormous need for infrastructure improvement in all the sectors of the economy, the

Paramount issues to be addressed through the master plan include broadband availability and penetration, power generation and distribution, among others.

Service level agreements (SLAs) are one of the major considerations for every buyer of cloud computing services, but often are very hard to both define and enforce.

In fact, in a recent blog, Lydia Leong of Gartner has noted that most public cloud SLAs are "practically useless," fuelling the argument that enterprise-level applications and services cannot be delivered on a public cloud

Africa’s agricultural, mining and energy resources could boost the continent’s economic growth and pave the way for a breakthrough in human development, according to the African Economic Outlook 2013 just released.

The report is produced annually by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the OECD Development Centre, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the UN Development Programme

Sharp, Middle East and Africa, part of Sharp Corporation, brings the world’s largest commercially available television, the 90 inch AQUOS LED to Nigeria.

The much anticipated product, Sharp’s 90 inch wall of entertainment is a breath-taking marvel of technology, which weighs a  mere 64 kg, and roughly measures 2m in width, and 1.2m in height with  a diagonal screen size of more than 2.