By Usman Aliyu 38 newly trained rangers have graduated from a six-week intensive training programme designed to strengthen the protection of Okomu National Park in Edo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okomu National Park is one of Nigeria’s last remaining lowland rainforest ecosystems. The rangers passed outContinue Reading
By Olatunde Ajayi Prof. Zacharia Yaduma, Director-General, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) says Nigeria is strengthening policy and legal frameworks to promote the sustainability of biosphere reserves and support ecological research. Yaduma, stated this while presenting the National Report on the implementation of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB)Continue Reading
By Usman Aliyu The African Nature Investors (ANI) Foundation, working with the National Park Service (NPS), has begun recruitment of 40 new rangers to strengthen law-enforcement operations at the Okomu National Park in Edo. Mr Peter Abanyam, ANI Project Manager at Okomu, disclosed this on Thursday while speaking with theContinue Reading
By Usman Aliyu, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Hours after dawn on Nov. 30, workers on a routine patrol at Okomu Oil Palm Company in Edo noticed a figure wandering alone among the trees in Extension 1 of the plantation. At first, they thought it was a stray calf fromContinue Reading
By Abigael Joshua The National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons has reaffirmed its commitment to partnering with the National Park Service (NPS) to tackle banditry and other criminal activities within Nigeria’s parks. Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Johnson Kokumo retired, the Centre’s Coordinator, madeContinue Reading
By Abigael Joshua Dr Ibrahim Goni, Conservator-General (C-G) of the National Park Service (NPS), has assured that staff training and retraining will remain a priority to ensure professionalism. He made this commitment on Friday in Abuja during the passing-out parade in honour of Assistant Conservator-General (AC-G) Zanna Lawan. “The serviceContinue Reading
