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Press Release: CRUDE OIL SPILL ALERT: AN OIL SPILL HAS OCCURRED ON SPDC PIPELINE IN RIVERS STATE

Press Release V 20-01-2024 CRUDE OIL SPILL ALERT: AN OIL SPILL HAS OCCURRED ON SPDC PIPELINE IN RIVERS STATE The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) has confirmed a crude oil spill on a pipeline belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) Ltd. in Rivers State. According to members of the Advocacy Centre’s…

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PRESS RELEASE: YEAC-NIGERIA SENSITISES STUDENTS AGAINST ORGANIZED CRIME IN RIVERS STATE

Press Release VIII, October 25, 2023 YEAC-NIGERIA SENSITISES STUDENTS AGAINST ORGANIZED CRIME IN RIVERS STATE 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 Rivers State. The Executive Director…

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CRUDE OIL SPILL REPORTED IN K-DERE COMMUNITY OCTOBER 20

Press Release VII, October 20, 2023 A crude oil spill has been reported in K-Dere Community in Gokana Local Government Area (Ogoni) of Rivers State. The spill was reported on Friday, October 20, 2023, on a pipeline operated by SPDC Ltd. The crude oil spill that occurred on a pipeline close to a primary school…

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PRESS RELEASE: OKRIKA EXPLOSION: YEAC-NIGERIA CALLS FOR THOROUGH INVESTIGATION, COMPENSATION FOR FAMILIES OF FISHERMEN KILLED

The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) has called for thorough investigation into the cause of the explosion that killed two fishermen among others in Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State on August 1. Reports of the incident according to community members who spoke with YEAC-Nigeria’s team had it that a vessel conveying imported…

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Advocacy Centre Seeks Funding Support for Just Energy Transition Projects in the Niger Delta

Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) is seeking funding support for the smooth implementation of Just Energy Transition Projects in the Niger Delta. The project seeks to advocate and provide stable environmental friendly electricity through Solar PV Mini-Grid Electricity facilities in communities without electricity (CWE) in the Niger Delta. As brief backgrounds and objectives of…

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PRESS RELEASE: ADVOCACY CENTRE POSTPONES MODULAR REFINERY INVESTORS’ WORKSHOP WITH FOREIGN TECHNICAL PARTNERS INDEFINITELY

Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) hereby announces the indefinite postponement of the Modular Refinery Investors’ Workshop with Foreign Technical Partners. It would be recalled that in our publication on this subject matter dated June 3, 2021 we promised to revert to our stakeholders, supporters, volunteers, members, sponsors and the general public on the status…

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ADVOCACY CENTRE PARTICIPATES IN MANGROVE PLANTING FOR ECOSYSTEM RECOVERY IN RIVERS STATE

On Saturday, June 19, 2021 at Rumuolumeni Community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) and its network, Advocacy Centre Youth Volunteers Network join other organizations in a tree planting exercise as part of activities marking the 2021 World Environment Day celebrated on June 5.The program started with a…

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THE NETWORKED ECONOMIES OF ARTISANAL REFINING IN THE NIGER DELTA

Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has been working and partnering with Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) since 2017. The partnership continued with our collaboration with SOAS University of London (UK) since 2019 and production of reports and video on “Artisanal oil refining in the Niger Delta – networked economies (2020)”. You can watch the video…

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UPDATE AND PUBLIC NOTICE/MEDIA STATEMENT ON “INVITATION TO MODULAR REFINERY INVESTORS’ WORKSHOP WITH FOREIGN TECHNICAL PARTNERS AND REQUEST FOR COLLABORATION/ SPONSORSHIP”

UPDATE AND PUBLIC NOTICE/MEDIA STATEMENT ON “INVITATION TO MODULAR REFINERY INVESTORS’ WORKSHOP WITH FOREIGN TECHNICAL PARTNERS AND REQUEST FOR COLLABORATION/ SPONSORSHIP” The publication on May 4, 2021 by Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) signed by its Executive Director, Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface inviting interested participants to Modular Refinery Investors’ Workshop and that “From Monday, May…

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