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…
PRESS RELEASE III 08-12-2021 COMBINE OR SUSPEND THE COMMISSIONING OF GRA FLYOVER TO SAVE COSTS; GROUP TELLS RIVERS STATE GOVERNMENT The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC), a nongovernmental organization in Rivers State has called on the Rivers State Government to combine the commissioning of the GRA flyover with that of Rumuola since they are…
After meetings with Artisanal Refiners in Akwa-Ibom State on April 23 and 24, 2021, Advocacy Centre on April 25, 2021 had a high-level meeting with selected artisanal refiners and stakeholders from the three senatorial districts in Rivers State. The activity was to discuss artisanal refining, its environmental impacts, violations of environmental rights of the other…
PRESS RELEASE: ADVOCACY CENTRE CALLS FOR RESTRAINT; CESSATION OF ONGOING MILITARY OPERATIONS IN OYIGBO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF RIVERS STATE AND ASSOCIATED HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has being closely following, observing and monitoring ongoing curfew imposed on Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State following the ugly situation that resulted…
As the World Marks International Youth Day 2020 today, August 12 with the theme “Youth Engagement for Global Action”, Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) wants the government at all levels in the country to prioritize youth issues. The youths are said to be leaders of tomorrow but viewing their contribution from global perspectives…
Today, Tuesday, August 11, 2020 Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) took its COVID-19 Awareness and Sensitization Campaign to Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State after flag-off on July 31, 2020 in Bori, Khana Local Government Area. The COVID-19 awareness and sensitization campaign which took place in the Igbodo Community Makeshift market that exist…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) in partnership with Land is Life, USA on July 31, 2020 flagged off COVID-19 Awareness and Sensitization Campaign among the indigenous peoples of Rivers State, Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The campaign followed observations through baseline studies that the closure of some markets in parts of Rivers State by…
All is now set for Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) to flag off its COVID-19 Awareness and Sensitization Campaign among the indigenous peoples of Rivers State, Niger Delta region of Nigeria. ADVOCACY CENTRE had observed, through baseline studies that although the Rivers State Government shutdown many markets and remains closed since March 2020 as…
I am ‘provoked’ to write this opinion piece after reading many reports so far and observing how the Rivers State Government is struggling almost on daily basis to defend and justify its new flyover projects and the ‘benefits’ that ‘comes’ with them. I was particularly forced to write this piece and offer my alternative development…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC), a human rights organization that has been monitoring human rights violations within the context of COVID-19 in the Niger Delta in coordination with other organizations in Nigeria and keenly following and reporting rights abuses associated with the demolition of hotels in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State on…
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