By Godwin Chukwumaechi A human and ecological rights organization, We The People, is seeking legal options that would hold international oil companies IOCs responsible for the massive environmental degradation from their operations in the Niger Delta for the past seven decades. The move was made imperative by the rush of …
Read More »Oil Host Communities, CSOs Caution on Potentials of PIA Provisions to Cause Crisis
By Godwin Chukwumaechi Some members of oil bearing communities, civil society groups and their legal counsel, led by Igoh Owhondah-Wopara Esq, have warned that certain provisions of the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA, as they relate to host communities, have the potentials of igniting crisis in the Niger Delta. The group …
Read More »Fear of Liability, Behind ‘Divestment Rush’ by IOCs ~ Workshop
By Chukwumaechi Godwin, Port Harcourt Participants at the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria ERA/FoEN have concluded that over and above claimed militancy, oil installation vandalism and sabotage, most of the international oil companies seeking divestment from Nigeria are doing so to run away from liabilities arising from the …
Read More »Group Trains Bayelsa, Delta Oil Communities on Environmental Monitoring
By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), an environmental rights focused group has concluded training of some 40 residents of oil bearing communities in Delta and Bayelsa states. Addressing volunteers drawn from Gbarain/Ekpetiama in Bayelsa State and Iwhrekan in Delta State, Dr Nnimmo Bassey, executive director of …
Read More »Insecurity in Rivers: 46 Die in Extra Judicial Murders in April
… Civil Society Coalition wants IGP fired By Joel Anekwe As insecurity continues to escalate in Rivers State, 46 persons have reportedly died across the state in extra judicial killings and gang murders. This was contained in a report produced and made public by a non-governmental organisation, ‘We The People,’ …
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