Tag: Nnimmo Bassey

HOMEF warns that Nigeria’s new $700bn mining partnership with the US could repeat the Niger Delta’s environmental crisis if mineral ...

Reports say at least 37 people died in Okrika, Rivers State, while reportedly involved in an illegal oil siphoning operation.

Nnimmo Bassey urges Edo State to protect its forests, end environmental degradation and accelerate clean energy adoption as climate change ...

Environmental activists say the media must resist corporate narratives and independently investigate pollution incidents.

The environmental group says prolonged wellhead fires in Ondo and Rivers states expose a weak response to pollution, threatening livelihoods ...

In a joint statement forwarded to PREMIUM TIMES on 9 March, the environmental activist, Nnimmo Bassey and the public health ...

While the forced entry of unbadged persons into the COP venue was followed by a high level of militarisation of the ...

The official launch of The Great Delusion is scheduled for Tuesday, 4 November 2025 in Benin City, Edo State.

President Tinubu hinted on 12 June that his administration would give state pardon to the Ogoni leaders executed in 1995 ...

The group said, there is a “calculated and systematic” effort by the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to dismantle ...

Out of the total 1,411 Nigerian delegates, 821 have the “Overflow” badges, while 590 were approved to carry the “Party” ...

The official, who is part of Nigeria’s delegation to COP28 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate, says the fund will ...

"Climate change is a life or death matter and should not be seen as an opportunity for politicking or for ...

The event had creatives, storytellers, movement builders, and community organisers, to discuss climate change issues and to share ideas that ...

The new defence minister will face multiple daunting security challenges across the six geopolitical zones of the country

The environmental group calls on the National Assembly to include that provision in the constitution.

Activists have welcomed the decision as the court is to announce the amount payable as compensation.

The Board took the decision at an emergency meeting held on October 3, 2020.

One major criticism leveled against the blueprint was that its drafters failed to harmonise the vision with several other national ...

“The hate and the resultant violence against “others” remind us of the dark apartheid days and appears to underscore the ...

Mr Bassey has been involved in decades of a campaign against oil pollution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.

“It has been said that GMOs have higher yield simply because they are made in the laboratory. This is not ...

The UN Climate Change Conference is holding in Bonn, Germany, from June 17 to 27.

Mr Bassey is a recipient of the Rights Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize for works against ...

The environmentalists allege that the 13 per cent oil derivation funds to oil-producing states were being diverted by Niger Delta ...