Ogoni Cleanup
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As the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari winds down in four months, some Nigerians to whom the government made promises are getting disillusioned as it appears their hopes would be dashed. One group that is counting, as each day flies past....
29 Jul 2022
Movement for Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has rejected presidential directive transferring the supervision of the Ogoni cleanup to Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, and called for investigation into the project.
19 May 2022
Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) have called on the Federal Government and its anti-graft agencies to carry out
22 Mar 2022
Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has granted an order for leave to apply for judicial review compelling the Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Project(HYPREP) to perform the public duty of the cleanup and remediation...
2 Dec 2021
The Federal Government has promised to address concerns raised by an Ogoni community over environmental remediation by Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project.
12 Oct 2021
Environmentalists activists have lamented the poor implementation of the Ogoni cleanup exercise, saying that Federal Government’s handling of the project since the inception of the Muhammadu Buhari administration leaves much to be desired.
19 Jul 2021
The United Nations has reiterated its commitment to Ogoni cleanup remediation project and other environmental issues such as the fight against desertification
22 Mar 2021
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has urged the newly inaugurated governing council and trustees for the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) to establish the Centre ...
18 Mar 2021
The Federal Government yesterday hinted that it is contemplating using products and technologies developed by New York-based scientists for environmental remediation of Ogoniland
17 Mar 2021
An elderly man has been confirmed dead due to inhalation of gas from spillage in the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) and ELCREST pipeline at Tsekelewu and Polobubo communities...
15 Mar 2021
Experts have canvassed sustainable means of livelihoods for Ogoni People in Rivers State, insisting that failure to do so five years after the commencement of the cleanup exercise, might worsen the plight of Ogoni people.
19 Nov 2020
Oilwatch Nigeria has lamented that four years after the Vice President, Yemi Osibanjo, commenced the Ogoni cleanup, the remediation process has no visible impact so far. The group, which stated this yesterday at its first annual general assembly (AGM) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, lamented that Osinbajo had on June 2, 2016, flagged off the…
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