The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre, YEAC Nigeria has proffered solutions to the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP on the re-pollution of Ogoniland through illegal oil bunkering activities and artisanal refineries. YEAC Nigeria advised HYPREP to create a database for those involved in artisanal refining activities with the aim of providing them alternative livelihoods opportunities,…
Today 4th August, 2021 is the 10th year anniversary of the submission of the UNEP Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland Report to the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2011. The report was a crystallization of the many years of campaigns and agitations on the state of the environment of not just Ogoniland but the entire Niger…
On May 5, 2021, Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) visited some sites of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Report on Ogoni 2011 implementation by Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) in parts of Ogoniland in company of other local and international team members. The site visit on May 5 started with a meeting and…
ADVOCACY CENTRE PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT //// MAY 4, 2021 INVITATION TO MODULAR REFINERY INVESTORS’ WORKSHOP WITH FOREIGN TECHNICAL PARTNERS AND REQUEST FOR COLLABORATION/SPONSORSHIP Recall that in our February 25, 2021 publication, titled “FORMATION OF COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES ON MODULAR REFINERIES FOR ARTISANAL REFINERS IN THE NIGER DELTA”, Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) announced plans to organize…
PRESS RELEASE /// MARCH 22, 2021 WORLD WATER DAY 2021: USE N6.4BILLION APPROVED BY FEC FOR NEW WATER FACILITIES IN OGONI, DECLARE EMERGENCY ON PORT HARCOURT URBAN WATER PROJECT ADVOCACY CENTRE TELLS HYPREP, RIVERS STATE GOVERNMENT As the world marks World Water Day today, Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has called on Hydrocarbon Pollution…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) recalls that the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) assessment report on Ogoni was published on August 4, 2011, nine years ago. We also recalled that the audit of Ogoni environment followed years of struggle premised on environmental degradation, economic strangulation and political marginalization of the area which came to…
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…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) joins all Nigerians and the rest of the peoples of the world who are lovers of nature and the environment to celebrate this year’s World Environment Day with the theme “TIME FOR NATURE” with a focus on its role in providing the essential infrastructure that supports life on Earth…
PRESS RELEASE JUNE 2, 2020 As today, June 2, 2020 marks four (4) years after the flag-off of Ogoni Cleanup on June 2, 2016, Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (simply called YEAC or ADVOCACY CENTRE), a nongovernmental organization that has been monitoring the implementation of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Report 2011 on Ogoniland…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) on Friday, February 28, 2020 joined in welcoming the Norwegian Ambassador, Jen-Petter Kjemprud and his Deputy Head of Mission, Indrid Skjolaas to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on an official visit. Advocacy Centre, represented by its Executive Director, Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface also joined the Ambassador and his entourage…
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