Ogoni at 6 Events
Enough of Motion Without Movement – Clean up Ogoniland now Opening Remarks by Dr. Godwin Uyi Ojo, Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) during the press briefing to mark one year of flag-off of Ogoni clean up exercise by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration held at Aldgate Hotel, Port Harcourt, August […]
Uphold Edo State Government Revocation Order on Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc
Hello Friends, We urge you to support us in adding more voices to our struggle against large-scale industrial oil palm plantations by Okomu Oil Palm PLC (a member of the global SOCFIN). After successful protest marches on the streets of Edo State where Okomu Oil Palm has operational base, anti-land grab campaigners led by the […]
ERA/FoEN Advocates Immediate Social Security for Unemployed Nigerians
The current recession that Nigeria has plunged head-long into as a result of the slump in international oil price, is indicative of faulty policies and mismanagement of the oil wealth with the result being: We have now come to a point where only a well thought-out and drastic policy can stave off an imminent revolution. […]
President Buhari Reaffirms His Commitment To Ogoni Clean Up
Nigerian Current President Muhammed Buhari has reaffirmed his administration commitment to the clean-up of Ogoniland in Rivers State. President Buhari speaking at the inauguration of the governing council and board on Thursday for the clean-up at the Presidential Villa, Abuja asked for the communities cooperation as they kick off the recommendation of UNEP. However, a […]
Shell should not oversee Ogoni clean up —Civil rights group
Vanguard PORT HARCOURT— Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government not to include Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, in any body constituted to oversee the clean up exercise in Ogoni, Rivers State. Executive Director of the organisation, Dr Godwin Ojo, in his opening remark at a colloquium, yesterday, […]
Buhari says Ogoni cleanup will take two decades as ERA/FoEN demands a state of emergency for the entire Niger Delta
Delta Newsroom President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that on -going cleanup of Ogoniland and other oil-impacted communities in Niger Delta region would last two decades. Buhari, made the disclosure, while inaugurating Governing Council and Board of Trustees of Trust Fund for Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project for Implementation of UNEP Report on Thursday at Presidential Villa, […]
Ogoniland clean-up: Activists ask government to declare state of emergency
EnviroNews Nigeria Despite the announcement of the supposed take-off of the Ogoniland clean-up exercise and a $10 million take-off grant in 2015, the institutional framework is still not in place to give hope to the Ogoni people that anything tangibe will come out of the process. Bayelsa State Commissioner for Environment, Iniruo Willis (standing), Executive […]
FG’s Ogoni clean up flag off, mere jamboree – Group
vanguard FG’s Ogoni clean up flag off, mere jamboree – Group On June 7, 2016 6:04 by adekunle Comments By Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Emmanuel Elebeke ABUJA — AN environmental group, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FOEN, has given the Federal Government a knock over the recent flag-off the clean-up of Ogoni, Rivers State, […]
Crusaders charge FG to commence concrete actions to save environment
Environ News To save Nigeria’s diverse ecosystems from further ruin, the Federal Government must go beyond mere words on the issue of transiting from fossil fuels-based economy and put in place the relevant laws to checkmate the activities of the extractive corporations, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria(ERA/FoEN) has said. ERA/FoEN’s recommendation is coming […]
Why militancy resurfaces in Niger Delta, by ERA
The Guardian By Adamu Abuh (Abuja), Michael Egbejule (Benin City) and Nnamdi Akpa (Abakaliki) 07 June 2016 The Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Dr. Godwin Uyi Ojo, blamed the poor implementation of the amnesty programme for the resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta region. Ojo, who made the submission […]