The Executive Director of Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN) has charged members of the Gani Fawehinmi Students Chamber of Faculty of Law, Lagos State University (LASU) to preserve the nobility of the law profession by upholding the defense of justice and human rights. Barr. Williams stated this on Friday the…
The Community Development Advocacy Foundation (CODAF) has launched a damning report exposing egregious human rights violations and environmental degradation of host communities by Chinese and indigenous mining companies in Nigeria. The report, titled “Mining Practices in Ezillo and Ikwo Communities of Ebonyi State: An Environmental Time Bomb,”was publicly unveiled at a global…
As the world celebrates World Environment Day with this year’s theme, “Putting An End To Plastic Pollution”, Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN) is calling on governments at all levels to focus on laws and policies that control plastic production, as a way of curbing its…
Location: Ogboinbiri and Keme-ebiama Environment Report By: Alagoa Morris. INTRODUCTION: The Environmental Defenders Network , Keme-ebiama community; Ogboinbiri’s closest neighbour has also experienced these recent oil spills. Ogboinbiri and Keme-ebiamaare both in Apoi clan of Southern Ijaw local government…
The attention of Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN) has been drawn to an oil spill occurred at Baranyowa Dere (B-Dere) in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State. EDEN’s field team who visited the site of the spill on the 11th of May, 20205, spoke to a middle aged man…
It is no a longer secret that Nigeria’s Niger Delta is most researched region in Nigeria which has also earned notoriety as global Headquarters of Oil Industry Induced Pollution; promoted by regulatory capture, impunity of operators, government being more interested in petrodollars then environmental…
The attention of EDEN have been drawn to a fresh oil spill that occurred very close to Oando’s Ogboinbiri Flow Station at Ogboinbiri community environment of Apoi clan, Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa state, making this the fourth oil spill to hit…
The people of Obololi Community in the Tarakiri clan of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area are appealing for portable water and fish, to enable them survive the current oil industry induced environmental degradation, after a crude oil spill from Shell facility that occurred across…
The Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN) has received an alert regarding an oil spill from a Shell pipeline in Obololi Creek, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, Bayelsa State. The spill occurred on the night of Sunday, February 16, 2025, into Monday, February 17, 2025. This…
Listen, children, Gather close and hear my sorrow, For I am Earth, the ancient mother, Older than the rivers, wiser than the trees, Yet torn apart by the greed of men. Once, I wore a robe of green, A cloth woven with forests thick,…
