Press Release HYPREP: DO NOT AWARD NEW CLEAN-UP CONTRACTS WITHOUT ADDRESSING EMERGENCY MEASURES IN OGONILAND! While speaking on an Environmental Parliament program on WISH, 99.5FM Port Harcourt by 10AM this morning, I called on Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) NOT to award new clean-up contracts in Ogoni without addressing issues around emergency measures as recommended…
PRESS RELEASE NOVEMBER 27, 2019. NOSDRA’S HASTY CRIMINALIZATION OF COMMUNITIES ON SPILL REPORTS; A DISAPPOINTMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL STAKEHOLDERS The haste with which the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), criminalizes host communities while struggling to exonerate the IOCs on incidences of oil spills even when a Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) has not been…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has concluded plans to flag-off the mobilization and sensitization of ONE MILLION YOUTH VOLUNTEERS as HUMAN RIGHT DEFENDERS in the Niger Delta. According to the Executive Director of Advocacy Centre, Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface, the youths would also volunteer as Environmental Justice Activists, Climate Change Campaigners, Health Issues and Reporters…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) and Society for Women and Youths Affairs (SWAYA) on Thursday, 14th November, 2019 organised sensitization for students of County Grammar School, Ikwerre/Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State on human rights. The program which was declared open by the Executive Director of SWAYA, Stella Amanie had students, teachers…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) on Friday, November 8, 2019 organized sensitization on human rights for hundreds of students of Birabi Memorial Grammar School Bori-Ogoni, Rivers State. The sensitization is part of a project being implemented by Advocacy Centre in collaboration with Society for Women and Youths Affairs (SWAYA) with the support of Development…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has trained youths involved in acts of oil theft and illegal crude oil refining in Bayela State on alternative means of livelihoods. The event which held in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital on Monday, October 7, 2019 had crude oil refiners and traders including women from communities in Bayelsa…
Youths and and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) on Sunday, October 6, 2016 took to radio Bayelsa and sensitized the audience on the danger and ills of oil theft, artisanal refining and environmental pollution in the Niger Delta. The program which started on radio Bayelsa, Glory, 97.1FM Yenagoa by 1:30PM lasted till 2PM and featured the…
ADVOCACY CENTRE SENSITIZES STUDENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN RIVERS STATE ADVOCACY CENTRE on Monday, September 30, 2019 organized and sensitised over 1,000 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Rumuokwuta, Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Human Rights. The program tagged “Sensitization and Awareness Creation on human rights among youths and students in Rivers State” also had…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) joined other organisations, activists, environmental justice advocates and climate change campaigners to mark the 2019 International Day of Peace. The theme of this year’s edition of Peace Day which started in 1981 following a United Nations’ Resolution is “Climate Action for Peace”. The street walk in Port Harcourt, the…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) on September 12, 2019 organised a training and capacity development workshop for local government legislators in Rivers State. The workshop which held at Visa Karena Hotel Port Harcourt was organised in collaboration with Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD). (L-R:…
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