A coalition of civil society groups, grassroots campaigners and water unionists have vowed to resist the Lagos State Environmental Bill which was passed yesterday (Feb 20) by the Lagos House of Assembly, less than two weeks after the groups challenged key sections of the law at a Public Hearing organised by the House Committee on […]
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A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, and presided by Justice M. Idris, has affirmed that the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) is within its rights to demand and get a response from the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on its request for information on tax benefits granted to tobacco companies under the […]
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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) organised a one-day bitumen communities’ forum at the Akure on 22 December 2016. The event was attended by ERA management and staff, community representatives (His highnesses, chiefs, women and youths) from Ondo, Ogun and Edo States who brainstormed on the current status of the planned bitumen […]
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Angry ex-British America Tobacco Nigeria (BATN) staff have exposed some of the hazards that workers in the company’s Ibadan factory are exposed to, and demanded that the Nigerian government sanction the company for inhuman treatment of workers and forced retrenchment. Seven of the company’s disengaged staff at a press briefing organised in Lagos, said that […]
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INDIA—Today eighteen government delegates who represent the governments of more than 57 million people called for the strongest protections yet to guard against tobacco industry interference in public health policy making. The appeal, released in an open letter on the opening day of the World Health Organization’s Seventh Session of the Conference of Parties (COP7) […]
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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) and labour unions in the water sector have presented what they believe is a solution to the water crisis to the Lagos State government. Akinbode Oluwafemi, ERA/FoEN Deputy Executive Director, proposed among others, a collective investment in water infrastructure and democratic decision-making that priorities the human […]
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