Category: Environment
HOMEF’s School of Ecology Awakens Environmental Consciousness, Pushes For Ecological Justice
HOMEF’s School of Ecology Awakens Environmental Consciousness, Pushes For Ecological Justice …advocates for policies that treasure the environment Tracy Ohovwore, Benin City Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) organised an insightful school of ecology session on Ecological justice and Resilience, which was held at the HOMEF office in Benin City on Monday, March 24, 2025….
WWD: CSO Demands Tougher Laws To Tackle Nigeria’s Water Pollution Crisis
WWD: CSO Demands Tougher Laws to Tackle Nigeria’s Water Pollution Crisis. Uko Okon, Uyo A Civil Society Organization (CSO), Peace Point Development Foundation (PPDF), has urged the government to implement stricter laws to combat Nigeria’s worsening water pollution crisis. PPDF noted that the government’s current measures are inadequate, allowing industries and individuals to continue polluting…
Oil Resumption: Dialogue Committee Ends Grassroots Consultation In Ogoniland
Oil Resumption: Dialogue Committee Ends Grassroots Consultation In Ogoniland Barikui Felix The Ogoni Dialogue Committee on oil resumption in Ogoniland has assured communities in the area that the final report to be submitted to the Federal Government would represent the views of the generality of the people. The committee chairman, Professor Don Baridam, gave this…
NCCCS: Nigeria Needs Guideline To Shape Climate Action, Economic Transformation, Social Equity
NCCCS: Nigeria Needs Guideline to Shape Climate Action, Economic Transformation, Social Equity The Director General, National Council on Climate Change Secretariat, NCCCS, and Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Change, Dr Nkiruka Maduekwe, has said Nigeria needs a Just Transition Guideline that will serve as a model for inclusive climate action, economic transformation, and social equity…
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…