ANEEJ Hosts Second People’s AGM – Newsdiaryonline
… Case Against She’ll, the Executive Director of Environmental Rights Agenda, ERA, Barrister Chima Williams led the AGM to take a position.
Shell accepts to pay 15m Euro compensation for oil spills in 3 Niger Delta Communities; install Leak Detection System.
Benin City, Nigeria, 23 December 2022 – Four Nigerian farmers and their fellow villagers are to receive 15 million euros from the Nigerian subsidy of Shell as compensation for oil pollution in their villages. A leak detection system should prevent future oil spills. According to Friends of the Earth Nigeria, this historic victory at the […]
Shell accepts to pay 15m Euro compensation for oil spills in 3 Niger Delta Communities; install Leak Detection System.
Benin City, Nigeria, 23 December 2022 – Four Nigerian farmers and their fellow villagers are to receive 15 million euros from the Nigerian subsidy of Shell as compensation for oil pollution in their villages. A leak detection system should prevent future oil spills. According to Friends of the Earth Nigeria, this historic victory at the […]
Statement delivered during the 7th session of negotiations for a UN Legally Binding Instrument on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights, Monday October 25th 2021
Mr. Chair-Rapporteur, I am Ubrei-Joe Mariere from Environmental Rights Action – Friends of the Earth Nigeria, speaking on behalf of Friends of the Earth International, members of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power. Today we are living profound systemic crises that threaten our life and the planet. The climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, the […]
Event: Climate & Environmental Litigations: The Story of the Victory of Ogoni people against Shell
ERA/FoEN is hosting an event – Climate and Environmental Litigations: The story of the victory of Ogoni people against Shell in solidarity with comrades across the African continent and the African Climate Justice Group in the first-ever AFRICA PEOPLES COUNTER COP. The event by ERA/FoEN will Hold on the 25th of October 2021 by 2.00 […]
ERA/FoEN, 15 other groups carpet AGRA, reiterate support for Agroecology
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) and 15 other Food Sovereignty campaign organisations have urged Global North Governments to stop all financial and political support for the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and other initiatives promoting the Green Revolution. They were encouraged instead to channel their support to agroecology if […]
Memoranda submitted to the Senate National Public Hearing and the House of Representatives Zonal Public Hearings on the amendment of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
On the 2nd through the 4th of June 2021, Barr. Chima Williams, the acting executive director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria presented these Memoranda BELOW to the Senate National Public Hearing and the House of Representatives Zonal Public Hearings on the amendment of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. […]
Another Equipment Failure Oil Spill From Agip’s Idu Well 11
Spill Official [JIV] Ref No: 2021/ LAR/028/058 Location: Egbebiri community environment, Biseni Kingdom. GPS Coordinates: Elev: 14m, N05°16.323’, E006°32.986’ [from previous visit] Occupation: Fishing and farming main occupation. Date of Spill: 7th /8th May, 2021 Date of ERA/FoEN site visit: 9th May, 2021 [Sunday] Report by: Alagoa Morris INTRODUCTION: The African Charter on Human […]