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Newly Appointed Project Coordinator Holds Maiden Meeting with Staff

This morning, the newly appointed Project Coordinator, Dr. Giadom Ferdinand Dumbari, hits the ground running by holding his maiden meeting with Management and Staff of the Project Coordination Office in Port Harcourt. In his opening speech, the Project Coordinator brought greetings from the Hon. Minister of State for Enviroment, Chief Barr. Sharon Ikeazor. He reminded staff of their primary…

Ogoni communities urge FG to expedite action on cleanup

Ogoni …want payment to HYPREP halted over failure to implement UNEP report Some oil-bearing communities in Ogoniland under the aegis of Ogoni Liberation Initiative (OLI) have urged Federal Government to partner international agencies towards expediting cleanup of Ogoniland in line with recommendations of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Report. The group also advised President…

HYPREP seeks Ogoni group’s support on clean up

[FILES] A farmer walks on a marshy shore of a river polluted by oil spills at B-Dere, Ogoniland in Rivers State on August 23, 2021. – Oil firm Shell has agreed to compensate the Ejamah community and three villages in Ogoni community in southern oil and gas-rich Niger delta, which recently won $11 million in compensation to the community over a 1970’s spill that polluted over 225 hectares of their…

Slow Poison: Travails of Ogoni communities drinking toxins – nine years after UNEP report

On August 28, 2020, the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) tweeted that water supply to Ogoniland would begin before the end of the year. Abiose Adelaja Adams, Bertha Fellow, drew crude oil out of water wells in some Ogoni villages, and finds that nine years after the UNEP report, the people are still drinking toxins, […]

Slow Poison: Travails of Ogoni communities drinking toxins –…

ERA/FoEN seeks measures on environmental outcomes in Ogoni cleanup, insists on KPIs

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) yesterday harped on the need to identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure and evaluate the impacts or burden of the outcomes of environmental actions in Ogoniland, particularly Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project’s (HYPREP) activities on the environment.

The Executive Director, ERA/FoEN, Dr. Godwin Uyi-Ojo,…

Clean-up: FG opens fresh contract bid for water projects in Ogoniland

The Federal Government on Wednesday opened a fresh bid to select contractors to provide portable water in oil spill impacted Ogoni communities in Rivers. Dr Marvin Dekil, the Project Coordinator, Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) said at the opening of the bid in Port Harcourt that the Project was initiative of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Report on Ogoniland.

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Ogoni cleanup’s first phase may last for more 22 years, youths warn, deplore slow pace of project

The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has warned that the first phase of the Ogoni cleanup, flagged off on June 2, 2016 by President Muhammadu Buhari, might last for more 22 years if the rate of work is not accelerated.

The group regretted that United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)-brokered remediation was virtually on a standstill, stating that the “seeming lack of capacity…

Nigerian Activists Offer Mixed Reactions on Oil Cleanup Project In Niger Delta

Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, pumps out its most lucrative natural resource from the Niger Delta.  While companies like Shell and ExxonMobile operate there and extract billions of dollars worth of crude oil, most of the people in the region are extremely poor.  Their traditional livelihoods as farmers and fishermen have been badly affected by more than six thousand oil spills that have…