Tag:Niger Delta region

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How we make N2m every night, illegal refiner narrates day-to-day theft on Nigeria’s oil pipeline

In the last decade, several unemployed and restive Niger Delta youth, who feel entitled to oil wealth in their domains, have taken to the...

Michael Simire - December 3, 2020

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Fresh oil spill in Bayelsa pollutes creek, communities

Officials of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) have disclosed that what looks like an extensive oil spill occurred in the...

Michael Simire - November 30, 2020

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Ogoni women, Saro-Wiwa’s legacy and the clean-up process

No fewer than 411,803. A landmass spanning 1,050-square-kilometres. Some, if not most of them, in huts and mud houses for homes, without light and...

Michael Simire - November 18, 2020

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Opu-Nembe chiefs allege Aiteo planned to dump chemical waste in community

The Opu-Nembe community in Nembe-Bassambiri, Nembe Council of Bayelsa State and host to Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Ltd. has accused the company of...

Michael Simire - November 15, 2020

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Govt urged to pay polluted Ogoniland ecological debt

The Nigeria government has been asked to pay the Ogoni nation in the Niger Delta region an ecological debt for decades of pollution, neglect...

Michael Simire - November 12, 2020

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25 years after Ogoni 9: A legacy of environmental justice struggles – ERA

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) marks the 25th anniversary of the killing of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his Ogoni eight activist...

Michael Simire - November 10, 2020

Pollution

Oil spills: Environmentalists berate Shell for defying regulatory compliance

Environmentalists on Thursday, October 22, 2020 berated the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) for poor compliance to regulatory verdict on oil spill...

Michael Simire - October 22, 2020

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From artisanal to modular refineries: Journey so far in Niger Delta

The Federal Government’s move to curtail illegal refineries and pipeline vandalism necessitated the formulation of policy to license all modular refineries in the Niger...

Michael Simire - October 19, 2020

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