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Govt committed to elimination of gas flaring by 2021, says Sylva

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, says the Federal Government is committed to ensuring the elimination of gas flaring from Nigeria’s...

Ending gas flaring, building mini refineries

There are two oily stories that should catch our attention. One is about designing and fabrication of a refinery at a Nigerian university and...

Putting a halt to Nigeria’s atrocious gas flaring

Gas flaring is the obnoxious practice of burning natural gas associated with crude oil extraction (or associated gas). To use the words of Joseph...

World Bank’s gas flare-out initiative criticised

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has urged the Federal Government to be wary of a World Bank initiative to stop...

Bassey: My memories, hopes for Ogoniland

In the spirit of the third year anniversary of the release of the report on Ogoniland by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nnimmo...

Activists lament state of Ogoniland, three years after UNEP report

Monday August 4th, 2014 marks the 3rd year anniversary of the damning report of the assessment of Ogoni environment conducted by the United Nations Environment...

Gas flare-out: Mallam commends Total’s commitment

  Minister of Environment, Laurentia Laraba Mallam, has commended French oil and gas giant, Total, over its determination to be the first multinational oil corporation...

Knocks, praises greet oil discovery in Lagos

The disclosure that oil has been discovered in commercial quantity in the Lagos offshore, within the confines of the Dahomey Basin, has been greeted...

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New ERA leadership to drive Africa’s environmental justice agenda

Environmental Rights Africa (ERA), a Pan-African coalition of over 55 civil society organisations across the continent, has endorsed its...
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Nigeria’s NDC 3.0: Pathways for youth empowerment, economic growth

Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement represent the country’s blueprint for climate action, economic resilience, and...

Unreliable power: 40% of Nigerian industries have exited national grid – ECN, UNIDO

Industrial Energy Consumption Survey developed by Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN), in partnership with United Nations Industrial Development Organisation...

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New ERA leadership to drive Africa’s environmental justice agenda

Environmental Rights Africa (ERA), a Pan-African coalition of over...

Nigeria’s NDC 3.0: Pathways for youth empowerment, economic growth

Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement...
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