Tag:Niger Delta region

Agric & Biotech

Palm oil, key to economic prosperity in Niger Delta – Amnesty Progamme

Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme in the Niger Delta, Retired Col. Milland Dikio, has challenged youths in the region to exploit opportunities in oil palm...

Michael Simire - July 31, 2022

Human Welfare

Ogoni communities pledge to monitor their environment

Communities in the Niger Delta region in Nigeria are vulnerable because of the impact from the exploration and exploitation of oil companies. Communities where...

Michael Simire - July 28, 2022

Pollution

Delta community insists divesting oil firms should cleanup, restore environment

The Niger Delta Oil Impacted Community Dialogue held on Saturday, July 16, 2022, in Olomoro community in Isoko clan of Delta State was quite...

Michael Simire - July 20, 2022

Conservation

Environmentalist advocates conservation, tree planting in Niger Delta

An environmental rights activist, Mr Azibaola Robert, on Monday, July 11, 2022, canvassed tree planting and conservation of the rainforests of the Niger Delta...

Michael Simire - July 12, 2022

Pollution

Nnimmo Bassey: The Ikarama community paradox

There are communities in the Niger Delta that would compete to have the dubious notoriety of being the oil spills capital of the world...

Michael Simire - June 17, 2022

Cover

Activists fear PIA, oil company divestments will further impoverish Niger Delta

Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and We the People invited Niger Delta communities and civil society activists to a daylong conversation on the...

Michael Simire - March 18, 2022

Cover

Uranta laments Niger Delta condition, urges payment of reparations to degraded region

The Executive Director of Optimistic Outlook, Mr. Somi Uranta, has called on the federal government of Nigeria to promptly pay reparations to the oil...

Michael Simire - February 2, 2022

Pollution