By Kelechi Nwaucha In the wake of economic headwinds buffeting the country, the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has urged Nigerians to take advantage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), particularly Section 51, which empowers them to hold governments at the three tiers accountable. This was the message Executive Chairman of …
Read More »Olegh Trains Community Women on IOCs’ Divestment, Legacy Pollution
By Kelechi Nwaucha The role of women in defending and furthering the rights of communities, especially in the light of onshore divestment by international oil companies and legacy pollution issues, last Friday formed the basis of an awareness creation program organized by Olegh Centre for Community Development for community women …
Read More »Droughts up North are Impoverishing Niger Delta Women ~ Publisher
By Kelechi Nwaucha Despite the lack of droughts in the Niger Delta, the world’s second largest wetland, their manifestations in the Northern part of Nigeria are impacting drastically on the women and children in the South of the country. Publisher of the National Point Newspaper, Chief Constance Meju, on the …
Read More »World Environment Day: OLEGH Highlights Role of Women in Sustainable Land Use
By Kelechi Nwaucha Even as the Niger Delta environment and ecosystem continue to face heavy assault from oil pollution and related challenges, OLEGH Centre for Community Development has used the opportunity of this year’s World Environment Day to highlight the vital role women and rural communities play in sustainable land …
Read More »Divestment: CEHRD Demands Environmental Accountability from Shell, ‘Fleeing IOCs’
By Godwin Chukwumaechi The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) has demanded that as international oil companies (IOCs) are divesting from their onshore investments, in preference for deep offshore, government and other stakeholders should demand environmental accountability for their decades of operations in the Niger Delta. Decades of …
Read More »Youth Restiveness: FG Does not Really Understand Niger Delta Issues ~ Publisher
By Kelechi Nwaucha Youth restiveness and agitations in the Niger Delta have refused to lay to rest despite Federal Government’s efforts and initiatives aimed at assuaging the feelings of youths in the region. The seeming inadequacy of these initiatives, according to publisher of the National Point Newspaper, Chief Constance Meju, …
Read More »Kebetkache Tasks Niger Delta Journalists on Climate Change
The active engagement of the media in building awareness on climate change, and bridging knowledge gaps in the Niger Delta on global initiatives and activities, remains a veritable tool for achieving a cleaner and healthier earth So said the executive director of Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, Emem Okon, …
Read More »CSOs, Communities cry out over flood in Rivers
Civil Society organizations and some selected communities in Rivers State have cried out over the current devastation of communities in the state by flood, occasioned by climate change. Addressing community and civil society organization representatives recently in Port Harcourt, executive director of Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, Emen Okon, …
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