The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) has received reports from its Network on Organized Crime in Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea (NOCINAG) that an explosion at an illegal artisanal crude oil refinery site in Rivers State has left over a dozen dead. The incident, reported to have occurred in Obiafor 1 and 2,…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria), in partnership with four other organisations with direct funding support from the European Union through the British Council under the EU-ACT Programme, organized an event in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Monday, November 27, as part of activities marking the 2023 16 Days of Activism Against Gender…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) has sensitized the commanders and members of the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA) Security, Planning, and Advisory Committee (OSPAC) and facilitated the reformation of the non-state security outfit in Rivers State. The workshop, held at the Aldgage Congress Hotel in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, November 28, was organized by…
The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre, YEAC-Nigeria, has sensitized students of Government Secondary School, Oyigbo, against all forms of organized crimes, particularly illegal oil refining activities, commonly known as kpofire, in Rivers State. Organized crimes, according to YEAC-Nigeria, are a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals to…
The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) has carried out a sensitization campaign against organised crimes ranging from drug abuse, cultism, exam malpractice, and violent extremism in the Niger Delta to secondary school students in the Oyigbo local government area of Rivers State. The programme took place on Tuesday, November 21, 2023, at the Government…
YEAC-NIGERIA SIGNS MoU WITH OSPAC; FORMALIZES WORKING RELATIONSHIPS The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the ONELGA Security, Planning, and Advisory Committee (OSPAC) on Saturday, November 18, formalizing working relationships between the two groups. The brief event, which took place at the OSPAC headquarters in Omoku, headquarters of…
The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) on Monday, November 13, marked the Global Wave of Hunger Strike for Climate in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Nigeria. The event, which was held on the street at the Kaduna junction flyover area of Port Harcourt, was used to call the attention of both Nigerian and…
Press Release I, November 10, 2023 YEAC-NIGERIA COMMEMORATES OGONI MARTYRS, CALLS FOR ONE OGONI, ONE MOSOP As the Ogoni indigenous peoples commemorate the 28th anniversary of the Ogoni martyrs; killing of the Ogoni Nine, including Ken Saro-Wiwa, on November 10, 1995, the Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) has called for the collapsing of all…
One month after the explosion at the artisanal refinery site in Ibaa community in the Emohua local government area of Rivers State that killed over 35 people on October 1, 2023, the Executive Director of Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria), Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface visited the community in the early afternoon of Wednesday, November 1. Mr.…
TODAY, October 31, the Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) paid a courtesy visit to the Rivers State General Commander of the ONELGA Security, Planning, and Advisory Committee (OSPAC), Comrade Felix Nwobakata in his office at the OSPAC headquarters in Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA). The visit was aimed at building and deepening working…
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