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 […]
ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION/ FRIENDS OF THE EARTH NIGERIA | ZERO WASTE MANAGEMENT MODEL IN NIGERIA
By Ubrei-Joe Maimoni Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has focused its efforts on promoting our zero-waste model more vigorously. The model has great appeal and enables the potential for a shift from plastic utilization and a move towards separation at source, composting, recycling, and waste reduction mechanisms in communities where the model […]
ERA Accuses IOCs Of Distorting Concept Of “Divestment” To Confuse Communities And Make Them Poorer
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria(ERA/FoEN) has accused the international oil companies(IOCs) of distorting the concept of divestment to confused host communities so that they will not be held accountable for years of polluting the environment Executive Director of ERA, Barr Chima Williams, said at a one-day “Community-CSOs Engagement” organised by ERA/Friends of […]
The Buhari Years: What We Ordered vs What We Got
The outgoing administration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s environmental protection footprints in the past eight years can be evaluated under two subheadings thus: Policies and Legislations Within the past eight years of the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari administration, I can say some milestones were achieved in the area of legislation and policies for the protection of […]
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 […]
Friends of the Earth finds the new global biodiversity framework “not fit for purpose”
Montreal – The new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) announced today fails to lay the groundwork for the transformational change needed to address the biodiversity crisis. The Chinese presidency adopted the text despite clear opposition from the Democratic Republic of Congo, ignoring a process the COP15 president himself had laid out. Friends of the Earth International […]
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 […]
FG, Compel Oil Firms To Restore Nigeria’s Environment – ERA/FoEN
ERA/FoEN hosted Representatives and leaders of the Artisan Fishermen Association of Nigeria from the five Niger Delta states, who were victims of the Shell Bonga oil spill at a press conference held in Benin City. They called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to prevail on multi-national oil giants in putting an end […]
Latest Report: ZERO WASTE GUIDELINE
Zero Waste as an approach has been seen so far, as the best way to tackle the root causes of waste and broaden the obligation for real solutions. The idea for this guideline is to support governments’ decision-making in the attainment of effective waste management practices by introducing the concept of zero waste in the […]
A COMMUNIQUÈ FROM A WASTE PARLIAMENT HOSTED BY ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION/ FRIENDS OF THE EARTH NIGERIA ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2021 AT FRESH SPRINGS HOTEL, UYO, AKWA IBOM STATE.
Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth (ERA/FoEN) with support from Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) met with stakeholders from the relevant waste management sector ERA/FoEN has been engaging with towards zero waste to reflect and develop strategies for the effective implementation of the recommendations coming out from the project. The Parliament evaluated the […]