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Report reveals chronic oil pollution, escalating environmental threats from Brazil’s offshore oil and gas expansion

Just before COP30 begins in Brazil next week, a new report was released by SkyTruth, a nonprofit conservation technology organisation, that reveals the mounting...

Bayelsa community residents learn how to monitor, document pollution by oil companies

An environmental group, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), has commenced the training of 100 residents of oil-rich communities in Bayelsa on pollution monitoring. The...

Group urges stakeholders to address pollution challenges in oil producing areas

The Environment Aware and Restoration Network (EARN), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has called on stakeholders to pay attention to restoring environmental pollution challenges in...

Foundation trains community members on pollution monitoring in Bayelsa

The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), an environmental rights group, on Saturday, July 15, 2023, trained 80 residents of Ogboibiri, an oil-bearing community...

When Rivers, Akwa Ibom communities told tales of oil pollution, environmental degradation

Oil and gas extraction activities in Nigeria are often accompanied by routine gas flaring and oil spills. The resulting pollution has added to the...

Nnimmo Bassey: The Ikarama community paradox

There are communities in the Niger Delta that would compete to have the dubious notoriety of being the oil spills capital of the world...

Group urges oil, gas communities to protect environment

Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), an NGO, has urged stakeholders in the oil and gas regions to protect their environment from companies...

CSOs urge govt to tackle oil pollution

A coalition of civil society organisations (CSOs), Publish What You Pay (PWYP), has called on the Federal Government to resolve the oil pollution in...

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Cross River Assembly passes open defecation prohibition bill, Lagos apprehends five offenders

The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed a bill prohibiting open defecation. The bill aims to outlaw open...
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Lagos launches online system for building permit

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has launched an electronic system that will simplify the process of obtaining physical...

Nigeria committed to sustainability of biosphere reserves, ecological research – FRIN DG

Director-General, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), Prof. Zacharia Yaduma, says Nigeria is strengthening policy and legal frameworks to...

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Cross River Assembly passes open defecation prohibition bill, Lagos apprehends five offenders

The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed...

Lagos launches online system for building permit

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has launched an...