Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has urged the Federal Government to as implement the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) emergency measures on the clean up of Ogoniland. Executive Director of ERA/FoEN, Dr. Godwin Ojo, said it was ...
Read More »NAOC blames delayed response to Taylor Creek oilfield leaks on insecurity
‘Community pressurised company to act through NOSDRA, others’ The Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) has explained that the delay in the Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) and fixing of vandalised pipelines at its Taylor Creek oilfields in May 2020 was due ...
Read More »CAPPA Tasks Federal Government On Transparency, Participatory Governance
The President Muhammadu Buhari administration can rebuild confidence in its anti-corruption crusade by removing the veil of secrecy in the conduct of government business and respecting the right to information and free speech, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa ...
Read More »Stakeholders berate ‘politicisation’ of Ogoni clean-up process
Worried by the slow pace of work at clean-up sites in Ogoni, Rivers State, stakeholders have decried the ‘politicisation’ of the exercise, which has dragged for five years. Urging the Federal Government to focus on the project, they called for ...
Read More »Shippers’ Council solicits CBN’s intervention to realise Nigeria’s N7 trillion maritime potential
Finance ministry inaugurates task force on the full implementation of GIFMIS The Nigerian Shippers Council (NCS) has appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to intervene in infrastructure development of the nation’s maritime sector to enable the country to ...
Read More »NIS Boss Tasks Officers to Focus On National Causes In Service
Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has advised officers of the agency to focus on national development, while in service. In a statement issued in Abuja and made available to newsmen, Public Relations Officer of the NIS, ...
Read More »Ndume Canvasses Part Time Status For Lawmakers Over COVID-19 As Aborisade Flays Call To Slash FG Workers Salaries
Former Senate majority leader, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has canvassed the immediate adoption of part time legislative status for National Assembly members, insisting that all overhead costs and salaries of public servants with the exception of low salary earners be slashed. ...
Read More »HURIWA Tasks Buhari On Herdsmen, Boko Haram’s Killing Of Christians
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to end the genocide and attacks on Christians and farmers by armed herdsmen and Boko Haram terrorists, which have snowballed in the last five years. It faulted ...
Read More »Piracy: Nigeria Hands Over Suspected Vessel, Crew To Ghana
Gulf Of Guinea No Longer Safe Haven For Pirates, Says Jamoh Nigeria Very Professional In Handling Case, Korean Envoy Declares Nigeria has handed over the fishing vessel Marine 707 suspected to be carrying out illegal activities in the Gulf of ...
Read More »World Environment Day 2020: HOMEF Calls For Collective Efforts To Protect Biodiversity
The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has called for urgent and collective effort to protect and preserve biodiversity. It explained the importance of biodiversity, the threats to it and how it must be preserved, in a set of videos, ...
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