As a new oil spill has been reported again in Bodo City in Gokana Local Government Area (Ogoni) of Rivers State, a few months after many other multiple crude oil spills have occurred, among others over the years, the Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) has said that it would work with the community leadership…
On Friday, June 18, 2021, Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) was contacted by some elders, youths and community leaders of Egbemo-Angalbiri Community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State that oil spill has occurred in their community and requested the assistant of YEAC for monitoring and protection of the community’s environmental and human…
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…
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