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We, delegates of the Niger Delta Climate Change Conference 2025; comprising civil society organizations, traditional rulers, women leaders, youth advocates, government representatives, climate scientists, legal experts, and community stakeholders – gathered here in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, from July 7-11, 2025, to engage in urgent dialogue on Climate Justice, Environmental Degradation, and Community Resilience in the Niger Delta. This communiqué reflects our collective voices, historical truths, and unwavering commitment to restoring our lands, defending our rights, and building a sustainable and just future for the Niger Delta and Africa at large. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We express profound appreciation to; Rev. Dr. Nnimmo…

A group of fathers of the ladies that were on board the controversial Ibom Air flight in which Ms. Comfort Emmanson was stripped nude last week have called for stiffer measures against Ibom Air and its crew members that mishandled that incident. In a statement made available to National Point, the fathers, who came under the umbrella of Concerned Fathers of Girl children Onboard Ibom Air, said Ibom Air crew members committed serious professional breaches on that flight and deserve to be sanctioned. They however condemned Ms. Emmason’s alleged refusal to follow safety rules and her physical aggression toward passengers…

Concerned with the escalating ecological threats in the country, Health of Mother Earth Foundation in collaboration with We the People, Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, Social Action, CAPPA and OilWatch Africa organized a one-day National Socio-Ecological Alternatives Convergence in Abuja Nigeria on Monday 14th July 2025. The Convergence which was the second in a series that started in 2024 sought to create a platform for stakeholders including those from the government, civil society, academia, social movements, and communities to share knowledge and engage in meaningful dialogue and partnership on the overarching…

Okpe Union has disowned the 1st Deputy President General of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) and former Secretary of the Delta State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Isaac Itebu, and others over a press conference where they declared that Okpe was part of Urhobo ethnic nationality. In a press statement issued in Warri, the Union also disowned Chief Robert Onome, member of Delta State Advisory and Peace Building Council; Mr. Harrison Ekeleme, the immediate-past President General of Amuokpe District of Okpe Kingdom; and Mr. Moses Odiete, the President of the Okpe Youths Progressive Association. The Union said…

Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has donated a 300kV transformer and ancillary electrification facilities to the Nigerian Army 16 Brigade in Yenogoa, Bayelsa State. At the presentation ceremony, the NDDC Managing Director, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, who was represented by the Executive Director, Projects, Dr. Victor Antai, said the donation followed a request from the brigade to assist in strengthening security infrastructure in the Niger Delta. “We decided that critical electrical interventions should be provided to the 16 Army Brigade,” Antai said, adding that other interventions made to the 16 Brigade included the installation and stringing of 156 High Tension Pre-stressed…

The Community Environment and Development Network (CEDEN) has called for the restoration of extinct species and degraded ecosystems caused by decades of oil pollution around Nigeria’s pioneer oilfield in Bayelsa State. CEDEN Coordinator, Mr. Menidin Egbo, made the call on Saturday during a workshop tagged, “Restoring Lost Species” held in Otuabagi community, Ogbia Local Government Area, host to Oloibiri Well 1, where oil was first struck in commercial quantities in 1956. Egbo said the new initiative seeks to restore raffia palm ecology in the Ekpadio swamp forest, promote eco-resource conservation, and strengthen women’s livelihoods through sustainable extraction of non-timber forest…

The National leadership of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) has commended the setting up of a panel to investigate the Rector of Federal Polytechnic Ekowe in Bayelsa for alleged breach of the Polytechnic Act. Workers in the institution had shut down the institution since July 11 in protest over sundry allegations against the Rector. The Governing Council of the Polytechnic had on August 6, 2025 set up a five member panel to investigate allegations levelled against the Rector, Dr. Adegoke Agbabiaka. In a letter to the Chairman, Governing Council, dated August 8 and signed by Mr Nura…

The Executive Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Dr Nnimmo Bassey, has called on Nigeria to reject genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and what he described as “food colonialism” in Nigeria’s agricultural policies. Bassey, a renowned environmentalist, made the call in a keynote address delivered at the National Symposium on GMOs held at the Qualibest Grand Hotel, Utako in Abuja. Bassey regarded food insecurity in Nigeria and Africa as a complex issue rooted in underlying social and economic challenges including farmer-herder clashes, banditry, poverty, inequality, inflation, and climate change. He criticized the government’s approach to deploying GMOs as…

Women in Okpokrika-Ogbesu Community in Ndokwa East Local Government have cried out to Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to give them a sense of belonging by directing development projects to their community. The women, who lamented the absence of facilities to make life livable in the community, said, though they are an oil rich community, there is no power supply, no water despite a heavy contamination of their water sources; no road, no jetty. Even as the state is a top rate education state, the 4,000 population there has no access to a secondary or vocational school to prepare children for improved…

The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice-Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, has tasked the new Sole Administrator of Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA), Dr. Samuel Nwanosike, to be creative about converting waste to wealth. Ibas who was addressing the Board of the Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA) during their inauguration at Government House, Port Harcourt was unequivocal, stating that sanitation is an issue of public safety, not mere aesthetics. He called on the board to lead a comprehensive and disciplined approach to waste management. “The task before this board is urgent and enormous. You must lead the charge to rid…