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Theenvironment! Our life!! Protect it!!!. Destruction of the environment is adestruction of life. Therefore, Mac-Jim Foundation an NGO working onEnvironmental sustainability calls on the Government, International and LocalOil Companies to stop gas flaring. Stop burning on chemical and other relatedproducts. We support Beat Air Pollution, theme of the World Environment Day andwe call on all communities to stand up against air pollution and other forms ofpollution that are Genocidal to our existence. We must regard the actions ofThe IOCs and Government in continuing gas flaring amidst the increasing cancerdeaths and other forms of health hazards of community people as an…

World Environment Day *Govt. Is NotSerious About Tackling Environmental Issues* – Journalists, Friends AgainstDisasters, Accidents Intl The three tiers of governance inNigeria are still playing lip service to issues of disasters and accidents inthe country. A port Harcourt based nongovernmental organisation Journalists Friends Against Disasters Accidents Intnl came out with this as Nigeriajoined the rest of the world to mark word environment day. Founder/ ChiefExecutive Director of journalists, Friends Against Disasters, Accidents Intnl Ruskin N. Amadi said it is worrisomethat year in year out the federal , states and local governments will spendmoney to mark world Environment Day without any concrete…

Beforehe died in 2015, the late Professor Stephen Ellis wrote his last book titled‘This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime’. Going throughthis book left me with several thoughts, most of them unpleasant.Itis a fascinating read covering, not just organised crime, but the evolution ofthe Nigerian state (or maybe they are the same thing?). Atany rate, I want to share 8 random things I found interesting in the book and Iwill leave you to draw your own conclusions.1.In 1947, late Chief Obafemi Awolowo wrote that “Corruption is the greatestdefect of the Native Court system.” He complained that not only…

Communiqué ofthe Igbo National Council (INC) after its National Working Committee (NWC)meeting held on Sunday, June 2nd 2019 at Enugu, Enugu StateThe meeting which was attended bydelegates cutting across the thirteen states and other eminent Igbo citizensdeliberated on various issues bordering on State of the Nigeria State and theIgbo Nation which includes issues on Security, Economy, and Socio-politicalmatters as it directly affects the citizens.Analyzing the state of affairs inthe present Nigeria, the meeting frowned on the nonchalant manner the FederalGovernment of Nigeria was responding to many critical and challenging issuesthat are negatively affecting citizens and threatening the peace and unity…

Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, former Nigerian PresidentDuring Jonathan’s Govt, theNorthern Governors travelled to the US, convinced Obama’s government not tosell weapons to Jonathan’s administration. Obama agreed with Northerngovernors plans and placed an embargo on weapon procurement by Jonathan’sadministration.To ensure that Nigeria defeatsBoko Haram, Jonathan contacted a licensed private arms dealer who travelled toSouth Africa to buy weapons for our military. The Boko Haram members in thePresidency leaked out this secret arms deal to their Northern leaders and Governors.The Northern governorsimmediately contacted President Jacob Zuma who seized the money, $9.34millionwhich they tagged “Money laundry”. They got the information that Jonathan hascontacted…

ALaw of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Ogun State House of Assembly, Osun StateHouse of Assembly, Oyo State House of Assembly, Ondo State House of Assemblyand Lagos State House of Assembly for the holding of a Referendum on theproposal to Federate Ekiti State with Ogun State, Osun State, Oyo State,Ondo State and Lagos State and constitute same into Oduduwa Region of WesternNigeria, within the Federation of Nigeria.A: REFERENDUM ONFEDERATION OF EKITI STATE WITH OGUN STATE, OSUN STATE, OYO STATE, ONDO STATEAND LAGOS STATE AND CONSTITUTION OF SAME INTO ODUDUWA REGION IN A FEDERATION OFNIGERIA.1. Onthe 8th Day of August 2019, a Referendum shall be held inEkiti State, Ogun State,…

(BeingText of a Press Conference held by Chief (Dr.) E. K. Clark, OFR, CON onWednesday, 15th May, 2019.)I watched the telecastof the inauguration of members of the North East Development Commission byPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, 8th May, 2019. It was a very laudableevent, because the development of the region has been of great concern to someof us. I recall that this issue of developing the North East Region wasextensively deliberated upon during the 2014 National Conference and it wasagreed and resolved that a development Commission should be set up. In inaugurating themembers of the North East Development Commission, President…

CEHRD is a non-profit, non-governmental and public interest organization incorporated as a trustee charity in Nigeria with No. CAC/IT/19258 03 June, 2019.2019Environment Day Tagged “Air Pollution”CommemorationPress ReleaseThe Centre for Environment, Human Rights andDevelopment (CEHRD) joins the world to mark the 2019 World Environment DayTagged “Air Pollution”. “We can’t stop breathing but we can do something aboutthe quality of air we breathe”.The 2019 World Environment Day celebration whichfocuses on ‘greening the blue’ could not have come at a better time given theincreasing use of fossil fuels globally which alters air quality with a measureof biological, chemical or physical pollutants. chemical, biological…

Briefing Paper by the Nigerian Feminist Forum, 15 May 2019.On the 22nd of April, 2019, agents of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) carried out a raid on Caramelo Club in Utako, Abuja. Of the mixed clientele, men and women, only women were arrested. All the 27 women arrested were profiled as strippers, regardless of whether they were or not. Women were dragged out of the club in the nude and manhandled by male law enforcement agents. The 27 women were coerced into “confessing to prostitution”, without legal aid or counsel, and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment or a fine…

ByConstance MejuMay27 of every year, Nigeria joins the word in commemorating the InternationalChildren’s Day, a day set aside by the United Nation to focus on children’sissues. As usual, there were parades mounted by excited children in the statesand the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja as well as in all the 774 localgovernment headquarters of the country.Stategovernments even hosted some of the children to parties later in the day and inBayelsa State, their excitement over this once-in-a –blue –moon treat led tosome form of injury to the first lady. Apologies Maam!Someparents too, took out time and money to spend time with their…