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 […]
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Ban on gas flaring commendable, long overdue, says ERA/FoEN The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has commended the Senate’s unanimous adoption of the Bill for an Act to Prohibit Gas Flaring in Nigeria sponsored by Senator Bassey Akpan, representing Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial district. The Bill, which passed second hearing in […]
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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 […]
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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has blamed Nigeria’s reliance on fossil fuels for the unrelenting oil spill-related incidents across the country, the recent one involving over 50 persons incinerated when a pipeline belonging to the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC) in Umuode Community in Aba, Abia State exploded. The incident […]
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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 […]
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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has thrown its weight behind plans by Friends of the Earth Netherlands to take Shell to court if it does not act on demands to stop its destruction of the climate. Donald Pols, director of Friends of the Earth Netherlands said ‘Shell is among the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Dr. Godwin Uyi Ojo has advocated that all states under the United Nations system must allow foreign persons and communities seeking environmental justice to take legal action in their courts if they so wish. Dr. Ojo, presenting text of Friends of the Earth International […]
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