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Cartoon: Sacrificing water, sanitation on the altar of oil money

Cartoonist, Francis Odupute, submits: In Nigeria's Niger Delta and elsewhere in the world, water access, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) continues to be sacrificed daily on...

Group seeks legislative action to hold divesting IOCs in Niger Delta to account

The Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has said that the international oil companies (IOCs) operating in Nigeria have lost the...

Why traditional leaders must speak now on environmental justice to save Niger Delta’s future

Niger Deltans, demanding for environmental justice for pollution and degradation of our lands will be more impactful if our local community and traditional leaders...

No to divestment without ecosystem restoration – Niger Delta women

Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre and their allied community-based women organisations express profound dismay at the announcement by Shell to sell off their...

Tinubu reiterates commitment to Niger Delta challenges

President Bola Tinubu has assured South South traditional rulers  of his administration’s commitment to addressing their concerns on development and environmental degradation. The President gave...

Why Shell must address ecological impacts concerns before selling Niger Delta assets, by campaigners

On Tuesday, January 16, 2024, Shell announced on its website and social media platform X that it had reached an agreement to sell its...

Shell opts out of onshore assets in Niger Delta, retains interest in deep water operations

Shell Plc United Kingdom has reached an agreement to sell its Nigerian onshore subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC). According to a...

Stakeholders want Niger Delta people involved in pipeline surveillance contracts

Stakeholders from the six states of the Niger Delta region have thrown their weight behind Bayelsa State Gov Douye Diri’s call to include people...

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Ghana’s biosafety authority: Granting GMO import permits to be based on regulations, international best practices

Clearly, it will not be out of place to declare April 2024 as “the month of Genetic Engineering GE)”...
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Stakeholders advocate increased budget to fight impacts of climate change

Stakeholders in the environment sector have called for increased budget allocation to fight the impacts of climate change in...

Domestic ivory markets must not be reopened – EPI Foundation

The EPI Foundation, the secretariat to the 24 African member states of the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), has expressed...

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