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COP28: Ijaw Council seeks coercive financing for environmental issues in Niger Delta

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has advocated coercive financing of environmental challenges in the Niger Delta. The President of the council, Mr Jonathan Lokpobiri, made...

SERAP wants Niger Delta rights to healthy environment upheld

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria to put in place a legal framework to ensure that...

Niger Delta stakeholders back Tinubu’s decision to retain NDDC MD

Stakeholders from Niger Delta zone have expressed support for President Bola Tinubu’s decision to retain the Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDCC),...

CSOs want divesting oil firms to remediate polluted sites before leaving

Civil society organisations (CSOs) that converged on Benin City, the Edo State capital on Friday, May 27, 2022, have warned that the current model...

Another oil blow-out in Niger Delta: A hundred deaths too many

In a reaction to the recent incident that led to the loss of about 100 lives, some civil society organisations (CSOs) represented by Nnimmo...

Hold divesting oil firms liable for six decades of ecocide in Niger Delta, govt told

Divesting International Oil Companies (IOCs) in the Niger Delta should be held liable for nearly six decades of ecocide in the region as precursor...

Niger Delta communities lament environmental degradation, dwindling prospects

Representatives of some communities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria were recently offered a platform to review the environmental situations of their neighbourhoods...

Groups want govt to checkmate Shell, divesting IOCs in Niger Delta

The Environmental Rights Action (ERA) and environmental and climate justice groups have urged the federal government to ensure that communities are included in the...

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Nigeria’s health sector gains amid strikes

Nigeria’s health sector in 2025 recorded notable progress in infrastructure, emergency care, insurance expansion, and service utilisation, yet persistent...
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Anambra community urges govt to tackle erosion displacing residents

Residents of Enugwu-Nanka Village in Orumba North Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State have sought government’s intervention to...

A breakthrough on plastic pollution remains within reach – Andersen

At the resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), in February 2022, the world came together and...

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Nigeria’s health sector gains amid strikes

Nigeria’s health sector in 2025 recorded notable progress in...

Anambra community urges govt to tackle erosion displacing residents

Residents of Enugwu-Nanka Village in Orumba North Local Government...
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