Category: Environment
GMOs Deprive the Right to Safe Food
GMOs Deprive the Right to Safe Food Stella Peters Public Health experts and food sovereignty activists call on the Nigerian Government on the occasion of the World Food Day 2024, to halt the introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) into the Nigerian food system as their use deprive Nigerians the right to safe food for…
Climate change Enhances Criminality in the Waterway.
Climate change Enhances Criminality in the Waterway. Katherine Abayomi Climate Crisis, seen in many ways in Nigeria, from heatwaves, drying soil, flooding, sea level rise, and other climate-related disasters, threatens the hottest years in Africa since 2005. With about 60% of our people being peasant women and food producers who depend on agriculture and local…
Eliminate Toxic Inorganic Matter: For Enhanced Ecosystem- President NIWA
Eliminate Toxic Inorganic Matter: For Enhanced Ecosystem- President NIWA Katherine Abayomi Debris and wrecks should be cleared to maintain passenger safety and cleanliness in waterways, which will aid the safety of goods and passengers. On this note, the president of the Admiralty Society of Nigeria, Angus Obinna Chukwuka, calls on the Federal Government and the…
Reproductive and Environmental Hazard, Caused by Mining.
Reproductive and Environmental Hazard, Caused by Mining. Katherine Abayomi In a welcome address, the Project Officer, Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI), Ifeoluwa Komolafe, stated that the group has organised trainings to draw attention to the plight of mining in communities across the country. The Women and Extractives Journalism Training is premised on the need for more robust and…
How Lokiaka Trains Ogoni Women on Effect of Climate
How Lokiaka Trains Ogoni Women on Effect of Climate. Communities in the Ogoni area of Rivers State have suffered legacies of spills by big oil companies over the years. Not even the halt of oil exploration by MOSOP and other groups spared them from the aftermath of the effects of the exploration. With oil companies’…
Climate Change: A Chaos in the Delta.
Climate Change: A Chaos in the Delta. By Katherine Abayomi In a quest to unravel the issues surrounding the abysmal sea level rise in the coastal communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta and West Africa, which has claimed lives and properties and exposed communities to a high degree of insecurity among other forms of communal conflict,…
HOMEF Celebrates Nnimmo Bassey on the Wallenberg Medal
HOMEF Celebrates Nnimmo Bassey on the Wallenberg Medal Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) celebrates with her Executive Director, Dr Nnimmo Bassey, on the prestigious honour of the 2024 Wallenberg Medal. Bassey is the first Nigerian and the fifth African to have received the award. He joins the ranks of other giants like South Africa’s…
The Ocean, Extractivism and Renewable Energy
FishNet Alliance – a network of fishers across the coast of Africa, held her General Assemblyand Conference on Thursday 22 nd August 2024 in Durban South, South Africa on the theme:“Ocean, Extractivism and Renewable Energy”. The gathering was attended by members of theAlliance from South Africa, Senegal, Togo, Nigeria, Mozambique, including new members fromUganda, South…
SI AL YASUNI – Durban Declaration 2024
SI AL YASUNI – Durban Declaration 2024 Oilwatch International held a Retreat on Friday, 23rd, and Saturday, 24th August 2024, in Durban, South Africa, around the theme Beyond Colonialism and Extractivism: Energy Democracy and the Imperatives of a Just Transition. The meeting had the Oilwatch International country members from Latin America, Southeast Asia, Ghana, Mozambique,…
Ogoni stakeholders to NNPCL: We want to be involved in OML 11 explorations
Ogoni stakeholders to NNPCL: We want to be involved in OML 11 explorations By: Felix Barikui, Port Harcourt Following the renewed move by the Federal Government through the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, to resume oil exploration in Ogoniland, stakeholders from the area have appealed to the company to give operatorship license of Ogoni…