Category: Environment
HOMEF Slams Nigerian Government, EU Against Importation Of Hazardous Waste
HOMEF Slams Nigerian Government, EU Against Importation Of Hazardous Waste—advocates for environmental justice Tracy Ohovwore, Benin City Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has charged the Nigerian government against importing non-hazardous wastes from European Union (EU) countries. According to the report of the EU as noted by HOMEF, €18.8 billion worth of EU waste was…
CSO’s Aligns With Ogoni Women Against Oil Resumption
CSO’s Aligns With Ogoni Women Against Oil Resumption. Katherine Abayomi, Port Harcourt For decades, Ogoniland emerged as a focal area within Nigeria’s growing oil economy, contributing major revenues to the country’s economy. Unfortunately, the benefits from oil resources have not reached the Ogoni people, particularly women, in any significant measure. Rather, Ogoni women and their…
FG Inaugurates Two More Water Facilities In Ogoniland
FG Inaugurates Two More Water Facilities in Ogoniland. …As HYPREP reiterates commitment to meeting critical needs Barikui Felix, Port Harcourt As a deliberate step towards ensuring that the people of Ogoni in Rivers State do not further drink from benzene-contaminated water sources as contained in the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report, the Federal Government,…
Nigeria’s Costal Community Under Siege: Urgent Call For Ocean Protection
Nigeria’s Coastal Communities Under Siege: Urgent Call for Ocean Protection Community leaders, scientists, and activists gathered today at the Nigerian Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR) for the State of the Ocean Workshop, where they issued a powerful call to protect Nigeria’s oceans from increasing exploitation and ecological degradation. In an opening address, environmental…
HYPREP Give Scholarship to 300 Post Graduates
HYPREP Give Scholarship to 300 Post Graduates Barikui Felix, Port Harcourt Three hundred postgraduate students of Ogoni extraction pursuing their studies in different tertiary institutions have benefited from a Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) scholarship grant. The beneficiaries received scholarship grants worth N200,000,000 for the project’s strategic approach to improving human capacity development in Ogoni…
HOMEF Initiates Book Reading to Awaken Environmental Consciousness
HOMEF Initiates Book reading to Awaken Environmental Consciousness Tracy Ohovwore, Benin Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has reignited the reading culture and amplified the call for environmental justice through a book reading, storytelling, and poetry session held on Friday, January 31, 2025. In an era where digital distractions threatens reading habits, the event served…
HYPREP Sets to Commission More Projects
HYPREP Sets to Commission More Projects Barikui Felix- Port Harcourt The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP)has disclosed plans to commission two more water projects in Ogoni, Rivers State, in February 2025. According to HYPREP, the development is part of its ongoing efforts to provide potable water to oil-impacted communities in the area. HYPREP Project Coordinator,…
Environmental Experts Sound Alarm on Fossil Fuel Dependency and Climate Change
Environmental Experts Sound Alarm on Fossil Fuel Dependency and Climate Change Stella Peters The discussion around energy, its costs, and stranded communities has alarming statistics, including decades of oil pollution contaminating the soil, water, and air of the Niger Delta. Climate change disproportionately affects marginalized communities due to patterns of production of dirty energy and…
Lekeh Development Foundation Demands A Just Equitable and Culture- Based Transition
Lekeh Development Foundation Demads A Just Equitable and Culture- Based Transition Katherine Abayomi – Port Harcourt In 1993, Ogoni communities shut down oil wells in response to economic exploitation, environmental degradation and repression of Ogoni people caused by Shell and the Nigerian military government. This non-violent struggle tragically resulted in massacres and bloodshed. The Ogoni…
Put the World on A Safe Pathway in 2025, Says Guterres
Put the World on A Safe Pathway in 2025, Says Guterres The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has called on countries to make the world safer by dramatically slashing emissions and supporting the transition to a renewable future. In his New Year message, Guterres said: “Throughout 2024, hope has been hard to find. Wars are…