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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