TAIWO ADEBAYO

Africa Business Climate Reporter

Adebayo covers business and climate change and how they intersect with communities in Africa. He is based in Nigeria.

The world will be fueled by electricity but even more clean energy is needed, report says

The world is set to make abundant energy by the second half of the decade as the production of batteries and solar panels surges but there’ll also be an excess of planet-warming fossil fuels, a report released Wednesday by the International Energy Agency said.

Fortified bouillon cubes are seen as a way to curb malnutrition in Africa

In Nigeria and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, many households have limited access to nutrient-rich foods due to rising costs and the impact of climate change on agriculture and food systems.

Cows obstruct Nigeria’s capital as climate change and development leave herders with nowhere to go

As the population grows and development extends to rural areas where herders live and graze their cattle, they are now forced to move into the city center in search of pasture.

16 people killed and dozens critically wounded in bombing in Nigeria’s Borno state, officials say

Police say a bomb exploded in a roadside market in Nigeria’s Borno state killing at least 16 people and wounding several others.

Police fire gunshots and tear gas to quell mass protests over Nigeria’s economy. At least 2 killed

Security forces have fired gunshots and tear gas to quell mass protests across Nigeria as thousands, mostly young people, poured onto the streets to rally against the country’s spiraling economy.

Africa’s demand for cooling systems is expanding. But regulating the industry is a struggle

Due to warmer temperatures and increasing urbanization, the market for cooling systems is expanding in Africa.

Lawmakers in Nigeria try to resolve rift between authorities and Africa’s richest man

Nigerian legislators have begun an investigation into the alleged importation of contaminated fuel into the country, part of efforts to resolve issues causing a rift between an oil refinery owned by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote and the industry regulator.

Millions in Nigeria have little to no electricity. It’s straining businesses and public services

The lack of reliable electricity severely affects education and businesses in Nigeria. Schools like Excellent Moral in Ibadan, near Lagos, operate in darkness due to zero grid access, depriving students of essential tools like computers.

List of threatened species grows by 1,000, but conservation efforts bring hope for some animals

Over 1,000 new species have been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s “red list” as invasive species, climate change and human activities such as illicit trade and infrastructure development threaten certain animal and plant species with extinction.

It was meant to be a Christian utopia. Now this Nigerian community is helpless against rising seas

Buildings have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean, an increasingly common image along the vulnerable West African coast.

Sea turtles are under threat from trawlers in the Adriatic. A center offers them a sanctuary

A nonprofit in a northern Italy port city rescues and treats injured turtles that are sometimes hurt by trawlers in the Adriatic Sea.

Nigeria is emerging as a critical mineral hub. The government is cracking down on illegal operations

Nigeria’s government is cracking down on illegal mining, making dozens of arrests of unlicensed miners since April for allegedly stealing the country’s lithium, a critical mineral used in batteries for electric vehicles, smartphones and power systems.

A Dubai company’s staggering land deals in Africa raise fears about risks to Indigenous livelihoods

A raft of agreements between African countries and Dubai-based company Blue Carbon could give the company control over large swaths of land for conservation projects.

African Development Bank chief criticizes opaque loans tied to Africa’s natural resources

The head of the African Development Bank is calling for an end to loans given in exchange for oil or critical minerals used in smartphones and electric car batteries.

A decade since the Chibok abduction, more than 1,400 Nigerian students have been kidnapped

What seemed like an aberration a decade ago when militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria’s Chibok community has become a recurring horror in the country.

Why schoolchildren are being abducted in northern Nigeria amid the region’s security crisis

The kidnapping of 287 grade school students by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria this week was only the latest in a slew of such raids since the infamous Chibok schoolgirls’ abduction by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram a decade ago.

Activists urge Nigeria to delay Shell’s $2.4 billion sale of assets in deeply polluted Niger Delta

Local activists and international environmental groups want Nigeria’s government to delay approving the $2.4 billion sale of oil company Shell’s onshore assets.

Shell will sell big piece of its Nigeria oil business, but activists want pollution cleaned up first

Shell has reached an agreement with a consortium of companies to sell its onshore business in Nigeria’s Niger Delta in a deal worth $2.4 billion.

Takeaways on AP’s investigation into cocoa coming from a protected Nigerian rainforest

As the world’s demand for chocolate grows, farmers in Nigeria are moving into protected areas of a forest reserve that’s home to endangered species like African forest elephants.

Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers

As the world’s demand for chocolate grows, farmers in Nigeria are moving into protected areas of a forest reserve that’s home to endangered species like African forest elephants.

IMF and World Bank are urged to boost funding for African nations facing conflict and climate change

Most of the population in conflict-affected countries like Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and northern Nigeria depends on climate-vulnerable agriculture.

Congo communities forcibly uprooted to make way for mines critical to EVs, Amnesty report says

The mining of minerals critical to electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies in Congo has led to human rights abuses, including forced evictions and physical assault.

As Africa Climate Summit promotes solar, off-grid power ramps up below the Sahara

Access to electricity remains a major challenge for over half a billion people in sub-Saharan Africa, and power outages are common even for those who are hooked up to the grid.

Logging is growing in a Nigerian forest home to endangered elephants. Rangers blame lax enforcement

Logging is threatening Omo Forest Reserve in southern Nigeria, which is home to endangered wildlife like African elephants.

A Nigerian forest and its animals are under threat. Poachers have become rangers to protect both

Omo Forest Reserve, a tropical rainforest in southern Nigeria, faces threats from excessive logging, uncontrolled farming and poaching.

Climate and violence hobble Nigeria’s push to rely on its own wheat after the hit from Russia’s war

Nigeria is trying to make Africa’s largest economy reliant on its own wheat production. But climate change and violence in the northern part of the country, where grains are largely grown, have hindered these efforts.

US measure would ban products containing mineral mined with child labor in Congo

New U.S. legislation would ban imported products containing critical green transition minerals mined by child labor in Congo.

Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria

An oil spill at a Shell facility in Nigeria has contaminated farmland and a river. It’s upended livelihoods in the fishing and farming communities in part of the Niger Delta, which has long endured environmental pollution caused by the oil industry.

Ending Nigeria’s fuel subsidy pushes a shift to solar. Without a climate plan, progress is at risk

Nigeria’s removal of a subsidy that helped reduce the price of gasoline has increased costs for people already struggling with high inflation.