THE GUARDIAN Environmentalist and Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nnimmo Bassey, yesterday, decried the decreasing life expectancy for people living in the Niger Delta region, lamenting that it had fallen, 41 years. Bassey spoke during a training of…
PREMIUM TIMES A Niger Delta Environmental Advocacy group, on Friday, commenced training of hundreds of fishers on coastal environmental monitoring and advocacy, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa capital. The capacity building programme is coming amidst ongoing oil and gas leaks at Aiteo’s…
THE SOUTHERN EXAMINER A renowned Environmentalist, Dr Nnimmo Bassey on Friday urged oil firms operating in the Niger Delta to clean up polluted onshore sites before divesting and moving their activities to offshore oilfields. Bassey spoke at an oilfield dialogue…
THE GUARDIAN Civil society groups in Nigeria, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to compel Shell to clean up the pollution its extractive activities have created in the Niger Delta, warning that the company’s plans to move offshore was to evade…