ERA/FoEN, GAIA NIGERIA MEMBERS CALL FOR ACTION AGAINST SINGLE-USE PLASTICS
Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) joined other members of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) on an advocacy visit to the Delta State Ministry of Environment in Asaba, Delta State on its campaign against Plastic Pollution, Open Waste Dumping and the promotion of Zero Waste. Representing ERA/FoEN at the meeting […]
ERA/FoEN, GAIA Member Organizations flay FG suspension of Green Taxation on Single Use Plastics
The Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria and member organizations of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) have expressed concern over the recent suspension of Green Taxation on Single-Use Plastics by the federal government, cautioning that it will make Nigeria a dumping ground for plastic waste products. Their reaction follows the recent […]
ERA/FoEN pays a working visit to Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative
On 20 June 2023, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) team and volunteers working on the Energy Transition Fund visited the top echelon of the leadership of the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in the organization’s new office in Abuja. The team, led by the ERA/FoEN Executive Director, Chima Williams discussed […]
COMMUNIQUÈ REACHED AT THE END OF DIALOGUE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICERS HELD BY ZERO WASTE AMBASSADORS (ZeWA) ON TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2023 AT FRESH SPRINGS HOTEL, UYO, AKWA IBOM STATE.
Zero Waste Ambassadors (ZeWA) as part of its activities in strengthening local capacities for improved waste management in the Niger Delta met with Environmental Health Officers in Akwa Ibom State for dialogue on how to foster a zero-waste society in Akwa Ibom State. The dialogue handled by Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth (ERA/FoEN) […]
ERA Joins other groups to Launch Pesticide Atlas
Pesticide Atlas was launched by the Alliance for Action on Pesticide In Nigeria (AANP) on the 3rd of April 2023. ANNP is a coalition of NGOs, academia, and experts who seek to increase awareness and demand improved regulation of the pesticides market in Nigeria. ERA/ FoEN is one of the founding members of ANNP. This […]
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 […]
ERA/FoEN Report Exposes Reasons for Oil Corporations Divestment in Niger Delta
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has published a policy brief on International Oil Companies Divestment in the Niger Delta & Local Communities’ Concerns in response to the growing number of oil corporations quitting onshore oil facilities in the Niger Delta region. The report noted that the term divestment in Africa has been distorted […]
Exxon Mobil Cannot ‘Divest’ Without Ecological, Livelihood and Health Restoration
The Ibeno host community people in Nigeria have received alarm and sadness current happening around the proposed sale of the oil extraction assets of Exxon Mobil to Seplat, as the former plans to leave the Ibeno community where it has extracted crude oil for the last 60 years. In the last weeks, the Ibeno people […]
ERA/FoENigeria leads FoE Africa Delegation to ECOWAS
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria led the Friends of the Earth Africa (FoE Africa) delegation on Saturday 18th June 2022 to seek the intervention of the ECOWAS Parliament in the exploitative activities and human rights violations by industrial plantation companies whose operations in the region are causing untold impacts on indigenous peoples and […]
ERA/FoENigeria joins FoE Africa Delegation to ECOWAS
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria joins the Friends of the Earth Africa (FoE Africa) delegation on Saturday 18th June 2022 to seek the intervention of the ECOWAS Parliament in the exploitative activities and human rights violations by industrial plantation companies whose operations in the region are causing untold impacts on indigenous peoples and […]