IKEJA — The Lagos State House of Assembly has appealed to President Muhammad Buhari to intervene in the protection of shorelines of Eti-Osa, Lagos Island, Ibeju Lekki, Badagry, and others in the state. The House made the appealed sequel to a motion raised by the prime mover, Hon. Noheem Adams, representing Eti-Osa Constituency 1, during plenary session in Lagos on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ocean surge had displaced lots of lives...

GENEVA —  The number of extreme weather or climate-related disasters has increased significantly since 1970, a report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) reported on Wednesday. Between 2000 and 2009, there were five times as many as in the 1970s, according to the report. It noted that the number of weather-related natural disasters declined slightly during the following decade, from 2010 to 2019. More than two million people died in the approximately 11,000 natural disasters...