THE SUN Aggrieved women drawn from 40 crude oil producing communities in Brass, Ekeremor and Southern Ijaw local government areas of Bayelsa State on Friday stormed the Yenagoa office of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), demanding N20billion as compensation from…
DAILY POST The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has intervened in the rift between Shell and communities over the dead fishes that littered the Atlantic coastline since February. DAILY POST had earlier reported that residents along the…
THE SUN “Toxins discharged into the Atlantic Ocean have been been blamed for the death of a multitude of croaker fishes recently washed ashore on the Niger Delta coastal areas in Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta states. According to the National…
DAILY POST An Environmentalist, and Chairman, Board of trustees, Centre for Environmental Preservation and Development (CEPAD), Mr Furoebi Akene, has attributed the dead fishes littering the Niger Delta coastline to the discharge of toxic chemicals from Shell Petroleum Development Company…
INDEPENDENT Following reports on the raging issue of dead croaker fishes along the Atlantic shoreline, oil industry regulators have been asked to make it a priority to investigate increased toxicity of the Atlantic coastline, which allegedly, has been causing massive…
PUNCH The Bayelsa State Government has warned residents against harvesting dead fishes washed ashore by tidal waves around the coastlines of some communities in the Southern Ijaw and Brass Local Government Areas of the state. In a statement on Tuesday,…