•Late Ken Saro-Wiwa and Tinubu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been urged to grant state pardon to the late environmental activist, Ken Saro Wiwa who was hanged in November 1995 by the military Government and also pay compensation to his family. Clean Environmental Foundation, (CEF) made the call in a statement signed by its Executive [&hellip...
•Oil spill The Chairman of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, Target Segibo, has decried the massive crude oil leak at the riverside Obololi community axis of his domain. It was learned that the spill, which occured on Sunday, emanated from a facility belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, reports Vanguard. Se...
•Abubakar Momoh The Minister of Regional Development, Abubakar Momoh, has raised concerns over the devastating impact of climate change on coastal communities in the Niger Delta, warning that it is exacerbating social, economic, and environmental challenges in the region. Momoh noted that these effects have contributed to frequent communal cla...
Youths from Ogoniland in Rivers State have expressed willingness to accept the proposed resumption of oil production in their area, provided that all stakeholders are included in the negotiation process. Under the National Youth Council of Ogoni People (NYCOP), the youths also urged the federal government to exonerate the late Ken Saro-Wiwa an...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency NiMet has predicted haziness from today to Sunday across the country. NiMet’s Weather outlook released yesterday in Abuja envisaged moderate dust haze in the North and North Central region today, reports NAN. “With prospects of thick dust haze resulting in visibility of less or equal to 1000m over parts of Za...
•Protest against oil spillage in Ogale community, Rivers State People from Ogale community in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State are protesting oil spillage allegedly caused by Shell Nigeria. The protest which is presently ongoing at a Shell Oil Serv Facility, the same area the pill spill occurred about two weeks ago in Ogale, [&helli...
•Oil spillage in Ogoniland The clean-up project in Ogoniland in the Niger Delta region by Shell has been described as a “con” and a “scam” that has wasted money and left the people of the land to continue living with the devastating impact of oil pollution—13 years after a ground-breaking UN report exposed the seriousness […]...
•Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State Ahead of the proposed state ban on Single-Use Plastics (SUPs), the Lagos State Government and the executives of the Food and Beverages Recyclers Alliance (FBRA) have agreed to enforce and implement the policy when it is officially in force. Recall that the state government banned the use and circulat...
•Banana Island A Lagos landlord, Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma-Odii has sued the Lagos State Government Building and Planning Agencies at the State High Court for allegedly approving a permit for a six-storey building on Plot B-7, Banana Island, contrary to the original building model specification of the area. The landlord is also suing the agencies f...
•Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside A former Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dakuku Peterside, says it will be premature to resume oil exploration in Ogoni land in Rivers State. Oil exploration in Ogoni has been suspended for many years due to controversies surrounding environment degradation among other...

