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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Breakfree from Fossils: A Nigeria without oil is possible! Welcome address by Dr Godwin Uyi Ojo, Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) at the public presentation of Nigeria Beyond Oil, Excellence Hotel, Ogba, Lagos December 6, 2016. Introduction On behalf of the management and staff of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of […]
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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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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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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION/FRIENDS OF THE EARTH NIGERIA (ERA/FoEN) 6th RENEWABLE ENERGY CONFERENCE HELD OCTOBER 12, 2016 IN ABUJA The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) organised a one-day renewable energy conference – the sixth in the series – on 12 October 2016 in Abuja. The event, funded […]
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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has criticized the Nigerian government cooperation agreement with Russia’s ROSATOM to build four nuclear power plants at the cost off $80 billion in the country despite inherent dangers, and at a time most civilized nations are exploring safe renewables. A release from the Communications department of […]
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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, Abuja. He […]
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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has asked the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Obasa Mudashiru to side with Lagos people in rejecting Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the water sector. ERA/FoEN, in a letter to the Speaker titled PRIVATISATION IS NOT SOLUTION TO LAGOS WATER PROBLEM, frowned at […]
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The Environmental Rights Action, member organisations of Friends of the Earth International and community-based groups from the Niger Delta have called on the Nigerian government to match talk with action in the implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Assessment on Ogoniland. At a meeting on the non-implementation of the UNEP assessment report on […]
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The Bus, a sculptural memorial in honour of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbooko, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate, Baribor Bera, Barinem Kiobel, and John Kpuine was shipped to Nigeria from the United Kingdom by Platform. On arrival in Nigeria it was seized by the Nigeria Customs since 8th September 2015 on the reported […]
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