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Nigeria Appoints Prof. Elias Lamle to Integrate Peacebuilding into Climate Action Plan
The Federal Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) through the NAP Global Network, has appointed Professor Elias Nankap Lamle as Lead Consultant to integrate peacebuilding into Nigeria’s National Action Plan (NAP) on Climate Change.
Prof. Lamle, a distinguished scholar of conflict management and peacebuilding at the University of Jos, will lead efforts to embed conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding into the country’s climate adaptation framework. His assignment includes building the capacity of government agencies, civil society organisations, and subnational actors to address the growing link between climate impacts and insecurity.
The initiative is part of Nigeria’s ongoing NAP process, supported by the NAP Global Network’s In-Country Support Program, which provides technical expertise to help nations design climate policies that strengthen resilience while fostering social stability.
In his remarks, Prof. Lamle stressed the importance of connecting environmental and security priorities:
“Climate change is not only an environmental challenge—it is also a peace and security challenge. By integrating peacebuilding into Nigeria’s National Action Plan, we are creating adaptation strategies that protect both our environment and our people. This is an opportunity to turn climate risks into pathways for resilience and cooperation.”
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Environment described the appointment as a milestone in Nigeria’s climate policy journey:
“This appointment represents a vital step in ensuring that our national climate policies are not only climate-smart but also conflict-sensitive. With Professor Lamle’s leadership, Nigeria is poised to set a standard for linking climate resilience with peacebuilding.”
As Lead Consultant, Prof. Lamle will oversee the development of training materials, organise capacity-building workshops across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, and provide technical guidance to ensure adaptation strategies address conflict realities. The outcomes are expected to influence both national and subnational climate planning.
Established in 2014, the NAP Global Network—supported by partners including Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States—works with developing countries to strengthen climate adaptation planning. Its Secretariat is hosted by IISD.
Through this appointment, Nigeria signals its commitment to aligning climate resilience with peacebuilding—an approach increasingly recognised as vital for countries grappling with the dual challenges of environmental stress and insecurity.
Facebook announced on Wednesday that it’s reimagining its Creator Studio tool as a stand-alone AI companion app designed to help creators grow their audiences on the social network.
By giving creators access to this AI companion app, Meta is looking to keep creators active on Facebook as it competes for their attention against rivals like TikTok and YouTube. The company also likely hopes that the app will eliminate the need for creators to turn to third-party tools like ChatGPT when brainstorming content ideas and analyzing performance.
The new app, which is currently being tested with select creators, will have Facebook’s recently launched AI creator assistant built into it. The assistant provides creators with personalized recommendations based on their content style, performance, audience engagement, and goals.
Creators often have to sift through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the AI assistant, they can get quick answers to questions like “When should I post?” and “What are people saying in my comments?” Since the AI assistant is conversational, they can also ask follow-up questions, like how their audience has shifted over time.
Beyond the built-in AI assistant, the Creator Studio app will include a set of several new features, such as an AI-powered comment tool that will help surface the most important comments and draft replies in the creator’s own tone. Creators can edit and approve the drafted replies before posting them, Facebook says.
When creators open the app each day, they will see a feed of daily priorities: reviewing their newest post’s performance, tracking progress toward goals, and flagging comments in need of a reply.
Wednesday’s announcement adds to Meta’s recent wave of app launches. Last month, the company rolled out a stand-alone app for Facebook Groups called Forum that functions similarly to Reddit. In April, Meta launched a new app called Instants that lets users share disappearing photos with Instagram friends.
The pipeline keeps growing. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Meta is building its own Polymarket-like app, internally called “Arena,” though it has yet to launch.
The cadence is deliberate. The Wall Street Journal reported in April that CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that AI-driven efficiencies would enable the company to build more apps than it has historically.
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