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Nigerian environmentalist Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui has been listed as a notable environmentalist by Wikipedia, alongside prominent figures such as former US Vice President Al Gore and King Charles III. She is the only Nigerian and one of four Africans listed.

The list was compiled based on the environmentalists’ activities in lobbying for environmental protection and conservation. Aniebiet is known for her advocacy work on climate and biodiversity and has been serving as the Ambassador of the European Climate Pact since December 2022. She was also named by the Web of Science as the “Most Read Researcher in Nigeria” and currently holds the position of University Librarian at the University of Calabar.

Wikipedia’s list of notable environmentalists includes well-known names such as David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg, former US President Theodore Roosevelt, Rachel Carson, and Leonardo DiCaprio, among others. Aniebiet’s inclusion is a testament to her contributions to environmental protection and conservation in Nigeria and beyond.

The list also features three other remarkable Africans: Wangari Maathai from Kenya, who was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize; Vanessa Nakate, a Ugandan youth climate justice activist and UN SDG 13 Young Leader; and Nyombi Morris, a Ugandan youth environmental activist who was named CNN Environmentalist of Tomorrow.

Aniebiet’s work as an environmentalist and diplomat has gained her local and international recognition. She has been advocating for climate action and biodiversity conservation, working tirelessly to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the environment.

https://www.opinionnigeria.com/unical-don-named-alongside-king-charles-others-as-notable-environmentalist/

As part of events by the European Union to mark the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, WeDontHaveTime AB (publ), a social network for climate action, has published an op-ed article in Stockholm, Sweden by Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui, the Ambassador of the EU’s European Climate Pact, addressing the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the environment.

The article sheds light on the severe environmental damage caused by the ongoing conflict, including the destruction of critical ecosystems, the release of pollutants into the air and water, and the displacement of people and wildlife.

The article emphasizes the global threat posed by the environmental destruction caused by the conflict, as the release of pollutants into the air contributes to global warming, and the loss of biodiversity affects the functioning of ecosystems worldwide.

Aniebiet Inyang Ntui, the author of the op-ed article, is a Nigerian diplomat and professor who has served as the Ambassador of the EU’s European Climate Pact since December 2022. She has chaired panels at various international conferences, including the 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference, the 2022 G20 Bali Summit, and the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference. She was named by the Web of Science as the “Most Read Researcher in Nigeria” and is the current University Librarian at the University of Calabar, Nigeria.

The article highlights the urgent need for peaceful solutions that prioritize the health of the environment and biodiversity, as the world confronts the challenges of the climate and biodiversity crises. It is a reminder that the ongoing conflict in Ukraine has far-reaching environmental consequences that must be addressed. The author urges the global community to take action to promote peaceful solutions that prioritize environmental protection and biodiversity conservation.

Overall, the op-ed article provides important insights into the environmental impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and underscores the need for urgent action to protect the environment and biodiversity. It is an important reminder that the environment is a crucial aspect of international conflicts and must be taken into account in efforts to promote peace and stability.

Read the Op-Ed Article: https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/ae9967c4-cf17-4630-b3e0-509bb80df392

As part of events by the European Union to mark the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, WeDontHaveTime AB (publ), a social network for climate action, has published an op-ed article in Stockholm, Sweden by Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui, the Ambassador of the European Climate Pact, addressing the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the environment.

The article sheds light on the severe environmental damage caused by the ongoing conflict, including the destruction of critical ecosystems, the release of pollutants into the air and water, and the displacement of people and wildlife.

The article emphasizes the global threat posed by the environmental destruction caused by the conflict, as the release of pollutants into the air contributes to global warming, and the loss of biodiversity affects the functioning of ecosystems worldwide.

Aniebiet Inyang Ntui, the author of the op-ed article, is a Nigerian diplomat and professor who has served as the Ambassador of the EU’s European Climate Pact since December 2022. She has chaired panels at various international conferences, including the 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference, the 2022 G20 Bali Summit, and the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference. She was named by the Web of Science as the “Most Read Researcher in Nigeria” and is the current University Librarian at the University of Calabar, Nigeria.

The article highlights the urgent need for peaceful solutions that prioritize the health of the environment and biodiversity, as the world confronts the challenges of the climate and biodiversity crises. It is a reminder that the ongoing conflict in Ukraine has far-reaching environmental consequences that must be addressed. The author urges the global community to take action to promote peaceful solutions that prioritize environmental protection and biodiversity conservation.

Overall, the op-ed article provides important insights into the environmental impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and underscores the need for urgent action to protect the environment and biodiversity. It is an important reminder that the environment is a crucial aspect of international conflicts and must be taken into account in efforts to promote peace and stability.

Read the Op-Ed Article: https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/ae9967c4-cf17-4630-b3e0-509bb80df392

The European Union has confirmed the appointment of Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui as the Ambassador of the European Climate Pact. 

Launched in 2020, the European Climate Pact is part of the European Green Deal to help the EU meet its goal to become climate-neutral by 2050. The European Climate Pact Ambassador is responsible for informing, inspiring, and supporting climate policy and action in the various EU communities and networks.

H.E. Ambassador Aniebiet Inyang Ntui is the Most Read Researcher in Nigeria, 2022 UK Global Prize Winner, a Nobel Prize Nominee, Professor of Library and Information Science and the University Librarian of the University of Calabar.

She recently moderated climate deliberations during the 15th United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties in Canada, the G20 Bali Summit in Indonesia, the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Egypt, and the United Nations Water Summit on Groundwater, held at the UNESCO Headquarters.

In September 2022, she was in France for a Meeting with European Leaders during the EU-Polifonia Stakeholder Network Workshop 2022 held at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris.

Recall, the European Union earlier this year appointed Enioluwa Adeoluwa, a popular Nigerian Skit Maker as the EU-Africa Ambassador.

One of the most important events for life on Earth, ever, is about to begin. This week and next, delegates from more than 190 countries will come together in Montreal, Canada, for a conference known as COP15, or the UN Biodiversity Conference, to hash out a plan to halt the decline of ecosystems, wildlife, and the life-supporting services they provide. Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui from the University of Calabar is participating in the crucial summit as a Member of the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Women Caucus. This was made known to the public during one of the Working Group Meetings ahead of the Conference of Parties which is due to begin on the 7th of December and conclude on the 19th.

The CBD Women’s Caucus is an organized network with around 300-500 organizations from all over the world that continuously provides input into the global policy processes of the CBD and other biodiversity-related international negotiations. The group has the objective to bring to attention women’s human rights and working towards strengthening the gender-responsive actions to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use in the policy framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), including strengthening the voices of women that are grounded in the local and national realities through advocacy, policy and capacity building.

If the term “COP” sounds familiar, that’s because there was another UN conference last month called COP27. But these two events are very different. COP27 was about climate change — a conference of countries “party” to the UN’s major climate pact. COP15 will bring together nations party to another major treaty called the Convention on Biological Diversity.

“Our planet is in crisis,” Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, said in a press conference earlier this month. More than a million species are threatened with extinction, she said, and populations of most major animal groups have declined by an average of 69 percent. “Clearly, the world is crying out for change,” she said.

During COP15, which starts on Wednesday, the 2022 UK Global Prize Winner will join other negotiators to finalize and sign a document called the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, the equivalent for the Paris Climate Agreement but for biodiversity — a strategy with nearly two dozen measurable targets designed to conserve ecosystems and the benefits they provide, such as food and plant-derived medicines.

Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui is the Most Read Researcher in Nigeria, a Nobel Prize Nominee and the University Librarian of the University of Calabar. She lead deliberations during the Edu-Tech segments of the 27th Conference of Parties (COP) on Climate Change in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and the Climate Change Discussions at the G20 Meeting in Bali, Indonesia.

Felixamos:
No matter how foolish you try to become, you'll never be as foolish as your father. Always remember that and stop stressing your useless self...

Penguin2:
We don’t know her.

No one knows her.

So, what does she think her endorsement of Peter Obi will change?

Inconsequential b*tch.

Onye ala!

WASHINGTON, DC – The North American Association for Environmental Education has appointed Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui as a Member of the eePro Community.

The North American Association for Environmental Education is a US-based nonprofit organization. The organization was founded in 1971 as the National Association for Environmental Education but now includes members from over 30 countries. Environmental education (EE) is a process that helps individuals, communities, and organizations learn more about the environment, and develop skills and understanding about how to address global challenges. eePro is an online platform for environmental education professional development and resources.

The announcement was made public through the Community’s Public Website. Aniebiet Inyang Ntui is an acclaimed Nigerian Author in the field of Library and Information Science. She serves as the University Librarian of the University of Calabar. Recently, she was named as the “Most Read Researcher in Nigeria” by the Web of Science.

The Association is prepared to have it’s Annual Research Symposium in Tucson, Arizona from October 11 to 12 and Conference from October 12 to 15 at the Westin La Paloma Resort.

As with many of his coworkers, a senior lecturer at the University of Calabar who is impacted by the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike has taken up taxi driving.

Negotiations between the Federal Government and the ASUU have often come to a standstill since the strike began in February 2022.

The senior educator claimed that in order to get by during difficult times, provide for his family, and fulfill other duties, he had to turn to driving Bolt cabs. He is the head of a renowned department at the University of Calabar, but he does not want his identity shared.

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Florence Bank Obi, returned from a personal vacation in Chicago, United States, just two days prior to this. Earlier on Tuesday in Abuja, Professor Obi attended a meeting with vice chancellors and provosts to discuss the ASUU strike.

Dr. Anthony Bissong Attah, a former lecturer and president of the UNICAL Post Graduate Students Association, was surprised to see him yesterday when he summoned a Bolt cab to pick him up for a trip.

“Today was a really emotional day for me. To get to an engagement in Calabar this morning, I hired a Bolt cab. The cab driver told me I looked like one of his university colleagues when he came to pick me up.”

“I am familiar with many UNICAL lecturers. Many of my friends and acquaintances from the University were mentioned by this Bolt driver.

The idea that a university don may unwittingly end up working as a cab driver makes me cringe. This is not meant to imply that it is improper for a lecturer to also serve as a chauffeur. Not at all, no. However, I’m worried that a preventable circumstance has forced these instructors into a hastily devised alternate source of income.

“This is really disheartening and irritating. Is it not important for civil and public workers to have several sources of income? That is a topic for a different conversation.

"The overall theme of this discussion is the need to support all of our colleagues in the academic community who are participating in the ongoing university strike. They are enduring extremely unusual economic difficulties.”

The lecturer-turned-driver bemoaned and deeply regretted how he passed up the opportunity to accept a lecturing job in Finland like several of his colleagues, according to Attah, chairman of the Young Progressives Party and recently elected State chairman of IPAC.

This incidence is not unique. On Twitter, netizens have been sharing tales of encountering UNICAL Professors working as cab drivers all throughout state.

Obi4Ever:
The Public Education Sector of Nigeria is currently in a critical state, staff unions of federal universities have been on an unending industrial action for the last five months. Federal Institutions are dilapidated as they are poorly funded and the approved funds are rarely used for the approved task. If elected on the 25th of February, 2023. The Obi-Datti Lead Administration will have to face the uphill task of rebuilding the sector from the foundation.

During his tenure as Governor, Peter Obi revitalized the education system of Anambra using strategic partnerships with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank, the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom and the European Union. The State was the first to procure and distribute more than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including 22,500 from Hewlett-Packard. The Managing Director for Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard Inc., described the deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle East and Africa. The Anambra State Government provided Microsoft Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria described as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far. The State provided Internet access to more than 500 secondary schools, which were characterized by the Director of Galaxy Backbone as ''incomparable to any in the country''. More than 700 buses were provided to secondary schools in the State by our Government. Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State and lastly, Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177 communities of the State. This led Obi to receive awards from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and other prestigious organizations.

Here is a short list of the qualified members of the Nigeria Academia for the post of Minister for Education:
A. Emeritus Professor Umaru Shehu (North)
A must-know name in the Northern Region of Nigeria is Professor Umaru Shehu, a distinguished physician, academic, and administrator, who is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria (IHVN). Professor Shehu’s extensive clinical experience in community medicine is of great value to the Board and our country, Nigeria.

Professor Shehu, who was educated at the University of Ibadan and Liverpool, is a distinguished fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College. He was a Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic) of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria from 1977-1978. From 1978-1980, he was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; and Chairman of the Board of Management of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan 1991-1994. He was also Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of Bayero University, Kano, and the University of Lagos between 1993 and 1999. He has also chaired the Boards of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) and STOPAIDS.

A one-time President of the Academy of Science and consultant to the World Health Organization, Professor Shehu holds the prestigious national award of the Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR). A world-renowned scholar with many publications to his credit and membership in international and local professional bodies, Professor Shehu is a Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine, at the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria.

B. Professor Kayode Adebowale (West)
A popular name in the Western Academia of the country is Kayode Oyebode Adebowale FRSC (born 11th January 1962) is a Nigerian professor and scientist and the 13th Vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan. In October of 2021, he became the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, having formerly served as the deputy vice-chancellor (administration) of the University of Ibadan, and as the dean of the faculty of science in the same institution.

Prof Kayode Adebowale was born on the 11th of January, 1962 and he is a native of the Gateway state, Ogun in Western Nigeria. He had his primary education at St. Marks Primary School, Oke-Ijaga, Ijebu Igbo between 1967 and 1972 while his secondary was at Ayedaade Grammar School, Ikire between 1973 and 1978. He bagged his B.Sc in Chemistry in 1984 from the University of Ibadan at the age of 22. He received his Master's Degree and Ph.D. from the same university in 1986 and 1991 respectively. He began his academic career as a Graduate Assistant at the University of Ibadan and became a professor of Industrial Chemistry in 2006.

He was once a lecturer at the Federal University of Technology. He has a record number of 137 published and peer-reviewed scientific papers, 14 conference papers, and 3 technical reports. He was formerly the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration), at the University of Ibadan. Prof Adebowale, MNI, FRSC, FAS, FAvH, FCSN, FSAN, FPIN is the 13th Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan. On Thursday, 14 October 2021, the Council Chairman and Pro-Chancellor of the University, Chief Dr. John Odigie-Oyegun, announced the appointment of Professor Kayode Adebowale as the 13th Vice-Chancellor of the University.

C. Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui (South)
A name strongly involved in the Nigerian Academia is that of Professor (Dr.) Aniebiet Inyang Ntui, an International Author in the field of Library and Information Science and the Current University Librarian of the University of Calabar.

Dr. Ntui holds a B.Sc.(Ed), Dip(Computer Techniques), M.Ed., MLS, and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science. She has over twenty (20) years of experience in the library and classroom of the University of Calabar, Nigeria. Professor Aniebiet is an Associate of the European Union Research Initiative - Europeana, the University of the West of Scotland's Center for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development, and the University of Glasgow's UK-COP 26 Universities Climate Network. She is also a Fellow of various International Library Associations and Institutions. She has served as a Consultant of Information Management to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United Nations Development Programme, and the World Bank. She is a recipient of the Nigerian Library Association Cross River State Chapter, the 2020 Award of Excellence, and the 2021 Award of Honor for her contributions to the development of librarianship in Nigeria. She is one of the Most Read Researchers in Nigeria according to information available on the Web of Science Site.

Who do you think will eventually become a Member of the Obi-Datti Cabinet?