Tag:Niger Delta pollution

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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...

Michael Simire - April 15, 2014

Sustainable Devpt

ERA/FoEN: Why Shell’s profit is declining

The marked decline in Shell’s global profits in 2013 compared with previous years and the imposition of a N1.8 trillion fine on the company...

Michael Simire - February 10, 2014

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Niger Delta: Earth’s most polluted place

Oloibiri is a small community in Ogbia Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, in the eastern Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Oloibiri is a historic town to the oil and gas...

Michael Simire - April 4, 2013

Sustainable Devpt

Bayelsa backs assessment study of polluted sites

The Bayelsa State Government has announced its readiness to support the commencement of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study of communities devastated by oil...

Michael Simire - March 12, 2013

Sustainable Devpt

Worry over level of sensitisation in Niger Delta

An environmental expert and rights activist in the Niger Delta, Alagoa Morris, has expressed dissatisfaction over the level of sensitisation on climate change education in the Niger...

Michael Simire - March 12, 2013

Sustainable Devpt

For the umpteenth time, oil spill in Kalaba

Oops, we’ve done it again! In what appears to have become a norm, barrels of crude oil have found their way beyond the “safe” confines...

Michael Simire - February 28, 2013

Sustainable Devpt

UNEP engages stakeholders on Ogoniland restoration

The Special Envoy of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Erik Solheim, has restated the organisation’s determination to restore Ogoniland in the...

Michael Simire - February 7, 2013

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