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CORRUPTION: ADVOCACY CENTRE LEADS PROTEST TO NDDC, DEMANDS ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY, RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTER OF NIGER DELTA AFFAIRS

July 27, 2020By 0 comment

The Executive Director of Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC), Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface today, July 27, 2020 led a protest to the headquarters of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over alleged corruption to register their displeasure over the billions of Naira allegedly mismanaged by the handlers of the commission from inception to date as…

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ADVOCACY CENTRE COMMENDS GOVERNOR NYESOM WIKE FOR HEEDING OUR CALL FOR THE PROVISION OF SAFE PORTABLE DRINKING WATER FOR RIVERS PEOPLE USING THE WORLD BANK LOAN AS PROMISED

July 24, 2020By 0 comment

Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) in our media statement on June 5, 2020 to mark this year’s World Environment Day had called on the Rivers State Government to provide safe pipe-borne water for Rivers people under the “Urban Sector and Port Harcourt Water and Sanitation Project” using the World Bank and African Development Bank…

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CSOs demand an alternative benefit-sharing scheme that places communities at the center of NDDC operations

July 22, 2020By 0 comment

Appalled by the mind-boggling revelations of corruption involving highly-placed persons in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), a coalition of civil society organizations working in the Niger Delta region strongly condemn the alleged mismanagement of public funds earmarked for regional development, leaving the oil-rich communities in the region poorer, with zero or run-down infrastructure, high…

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Advocacy Centre organizes training for Niger Delta Youths on Human Rights, Conflict Resolution and Peace-building mechanisms

July 21, 2020By 0 comment

Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) in partnership with Society for Women and Youth Affairs on Monday, July 20, 2020 organized training workshop for youths on Human Rights, Conflict Resolution and Peace-building mechanisms in the Niger Delta. The workshop which held at Green Palm Hotel, Bori-Ogoni was attended by delegates from Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo,…

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Advocacy Centre immortalizes Anyakwee Nsirimovu

July 7, 2020By 0 comment

Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has taken steps to immortalize one of Niger Delta’s highly respected Human Rights Defender, Environmental Justice Activist and Executive Director of the Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (IHRHL), Barrister Anyakee Nsirimovu who passed on in May 2020. The event which took place on Friday, July 3, 2020…

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YEAC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR APPOINTED MEMBER, OBSERVATORY PANEL ON CIVIC SPACES IN NIGERIA

July 2, 2020By 0 comment

An Observatory Panel on Civic Space constituted under the banner of a collaborative research project between S4C and the UK-based Institute for Development Studies, brings together civil society leaders and expert voices engaging the civic space to analyse and synthesize findings of various documentations on civic space and citizen-state-society relations in Nigeria, especially in the…

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LINKAGES BETWEEN OGONI CLEAN-UP AND ARTISANAL REFINING

June 15, 2020By 0 comment

A PRESENTATION ON “LINKAGES BETWEEN OGONI CLEAN-UP AND ARTISANAL REFINING” BY FYNEFACE DUMNAMENE FYNEFACE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, YOUTHS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY CENTRE (YEAC) DURING A VIRTUAL “MEDIA BRIEFING ON COMMUNITY CONCERNS IN THE OGONI CLEAN-UP PROCESS” ORGANIZED BY KABETKACHE WOMEN DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCE CENTRE WITH SUPPORT FROM CORDAID HELD ON MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2020. INTRODUCTION/SUMMARY OF…

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Action Group on Free Civic Space in Nigeria Participates in Public Hearing on the Control of Infectious Disease Bill at the National Assembly

June 10, 2020By 0 comment

On Wednesday, June 10, 2020, public hearing on the “Control of Infectious Disease Bill” held at the House of Representatives, National Assembly Complex, Abuja. Flights restrictions as a result of corona virus disease (COVID-19) could not allow Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) to be physically present at the hearing . However, Action Group on…

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