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…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) condemns in the strongest terms, the summary demolition of two hotels in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State by Governor Nyesom Wike in less than 24hours after they were allegedly accused of violating lock down orders of the State Government. The demolition of those hotels with all the…
Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has been monitoring and reporting issues around the fights against corona virus disease by the Federal, State and Local Governments in Nigeria since the first case was reported on February 27, 2020. Advocacy Centre does this from human rights perspectives and reports violations in the nine States in the…
When our Governor, Nyesom Wike, CON disbanded Vigilante and youth groups in Rivers State, I was not very satisfied with the policy because I know the critical roles that they play in local security vigilance in synergy with the Police and other security operatives. With that disbandment, any Vigilante or youth groups operating in Rivers…
YOUTHS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY CENTRE (YEAC) IS GLAD TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER AS ONE OF THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT “SENT SOME FOOD ITEMS TO HELP ALLEVIATE THE TRAGIC CONDITIONS OF THE VULNERABLE GROUP” IN SOCIETY ESPECIALLY BREASTFEEDING MOTHERS AS SUCCOUR TO CUSHION THE EFFECTS OF COVID-19 ON INDIGENT FAMILIES IN RIVERS STATE THE…
OPEN BUDGET: RIVERS STATE LOOSES OUT OF THE SHARING OF OVER N43 BILLION WHEN Nongovernmental Organizations and civil society actors including our Executive Director, Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface advocate that the Rivers State Government should publish its annual budgets, financial statements, etc, online under the Open Budget Alliance Initiative, the government did not listen. Some…
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