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National Water Bill: Water Union, CAPPA Write Buhari to Withdraw Bill for its Anti-people provisions

September 9, 2020 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) and the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the National Water Resources Bill 2020 owing to its pro-privatisation and other anti-people provisions. The letter to President Buhari was informed by a clause by […]

US – based groups, Jesse Jackson write Sanwo-Olu on Lagos water privatization

February 12, 2020 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Institute of the Black World 21st Century and a host of African Americans, including Reverend Jesse Jackson have written to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu asking him to back off water privatization plans. In the letter which was dispatched on February 4 from the U.S, the groups expressed their solidarity with the people of Lagos and […]

#ERA/FoEN: Lagos Govt. Deal with World Bank’s IFC is Bad for Citizens

January 15, 2019 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has cautioned the Lagos government from going ahead with any deal with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) which will ultimately mortgage the future of Lagos citizens and yield no positive result. ERA/FoEN warning comes on the heels of the 7 January 2019 IFC and Lagos […]

PRIVATISATION NOT SOLUTION TO NATIONAL EMERGENCY IN WATER SECTOR – ERA/FoEN

April 29, 2018April 29, 2018 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has commended the federal government for declaring a state of emergency in the water sector, but disagreed with the government position that private sector participation will reverse the sectors’ woes. Minister for Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu had announced last week that the declaration […]

ERA/FoEN ASKS LAGOS TO END WATER SECTOR AGREEMENT WITH VISIONSCAPE FOR POOR OPERATIONS

January 23, 2018 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has asked the Lagos State Government to terminate any agreement it may have entered into with Visionscape in the water sector as its performance in waste management has shown that it will also throw the water sector into crisis. The environmental justice group made the call […]

GROUP EXPOSES INHUMAN ACTIVITIES OF CORPORATIONS PICKED BY LAGOS GOVT. TO MANAGE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE

December 28, 2017 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Our Water Our Right Coalition comprising a host of national and international civil society and grassroots groups has delivered copies of a document – Veolia, Abengoa, Metito Cannot Be Trusted With Lagos Water to the Lagos State government, asking it to halt the planned 25-year concession of Adiyan II project and a Public Private Partnership (PPP) for the […]

ERA/FoEN SLAMS PHILIP MORRIS: “YOU CAN’T BE A PRODUCER OF DEADLY WARES AND TALK ABOUT HARMS REDUCTION”

November 23, 2017 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has described as false and deceptive recent activities by Philip Morris International (PMI) to promote itself as a supporter of a “smoke-free world”. ERA/FoEN, in reaction to the start of PMI-funded training of senior journalists in Naivasha, Kenya, with the theme – Tobacco Harm Reduction: Towards […]

PPP PLANS IN WATER SECTOR: GROUP ACCUSES LAGOS GOVT. OF LYING

July 18, 2017 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Our Water Our Right Coalition has described as extremely disturbing, Lagos State government decision to press ahead with Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the water sector even with overwhelming public rejection of the idea and repeated denials on its part. Responding to the stout defence of PPP by the Managing Director of Lagos Water Corporation […]

FLOODS: ERA/FoEN BLAMES LAGOS STATE GOVT COASTLINE PROJECTS

July 10, 2017 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has blamed the recourse of the Lagos State government to environmentally-unfriendly projects along the entire Lagos coastline, especially the Lekki-Ajah axis for massive floods that submerged houses in several parts of the state during last week’s heavy downpour. The floods ravaged parts of Victoria Island, Lekki, […]

Transparency lacking in process of rehabilitating Lagos waterworks – ERA/FoEN alleges

May 21, 2017 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has criticized the secrecy surrounding the planned rehabilitation of dilapidated water infrastructure in Lagos State, urging the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode administration to allow transparent and competitive bidding in the selection of companies to carry out the repair works. Ambode had announced funding to the tune of […]