Category: Environment
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…
PIA Advocacy for Implementation of 3% and Women Inclusion to Leadership
PIA Advocacy for Implementation of 3% and Women Inclusion to Leadership By Katherine Abayomi The Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), from its inception as a Bill in the National Assembly to its current implementation stage, has faced numerous contentions as well as the 3% allocation to Host communities. The Kebetkache Foundation, in collaboration with Oxfam, Organized…
Massive Degradation of Mangrove in Niger Delta
Massive Degradation of Mangrove in Niger Delta Katherine Abayomi An Environmentalist Ime Ikpoke Nkanta ,has called on stakeholders to guard the Mangrove ecosystem from extinction. He said this to raise awareness of the mangrove ecosystem’s importance as a special and vulnerable ecosystem and to promote solutions for its renewable management and conservation. He disclosed this…
NNPCL-Dangote Refineries rift: HOMEF demands transparency, investigation of claims on import of toxic fuels
NNPCL-Dangote Refineries rift: HOMEF demands transparency, investigation of claims on import of toxic fuels By Stella Peters NNPCL-Dangote Refineries rift: HOMEF demands transparency, investigationof claims on import of toxic fuels Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), has demanded transparency and an investigation into allegations of importing and foisting ‘dirty’ fuels on Nigerians. HOMEF advocated this…
HYPREP: Zabbey returns to work, promises better deals for Ogoni youths
HYPREP: Zabbey returns to work, promises better deals for Ogoni youths By: Barikui Felix, Port Harcourt Professor Nenibarini Zabbey has returned to work following his reinstatement as the Project Coordinator of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP, by President Bola Tinubu, promising to continue in the trajectory of job creation through the project for Ogoni…