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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,…
Nigerians Firmly Reject Genetically Modified Potatoes and Other GMCrops A coalition of over 100 civil society actors, farmers, scientists, legal practitioners, and academics representing 100 million Nigerian consumershave placed a demand on the Nigerian Government to discontinue plans to introduce genetically modified potatoes and outright ban GMOs in the country as they violate fundamental human…
LG polls: PDP set to lose 25-years dominance in Rivers as Fubara’s loyalists pick APP tickets By: Barikui Felix The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, could be on the verge of losing its 25-year dominance in Rivers State following the mass movement of members of the party, especially loyalists of the governor, Sir Siminialayi Fubara, into…
NNPCL charges journalists Against Misinformation as PH Refinery Reopens In a moment of banter and fun, print, online, and community newspaper journalists gathered in Port Harcourt with Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) media friends to discuss issues bothering the oil and gas sector in Nigeria. The event provided an opportunity for journalists to listen firsthand…
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…
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 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 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 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…
Genetically Modified Organisms ({GMOs} a Biologically Weapon – HOMEF By Oke-Oghene Orogun and Katherine Abayomi Health of Mother Earth Foundation HOMEF in collaboration with the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance has called for an outright ban on Genetically Modified Organisms GMOs in Nigeria citing concerns over the country’s faulty regulatory architecture lack of evidence of unbiased risk…
