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A Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled against an attempt by the Corporate Affairs to interfere in the affairs of Christian churches in the country under the Company and Allied Matters Act, CAMA 2920. A team of lawyers representing the Christian Association of Nigeria, brought the case before the court challenging the CAMA 2020 law that empowers the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC of Nigeria to interfere and where deemed necessary, take over the administration of churches or even close them down. The provision of Section 839 of CAMA has generated much controversy resulting in serious condemnation from the churches,…

Bayelsa State Government has given assurance that the erosion control project in Obogoro Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area has not been abandoned. The assurance was in direct response to lamentations of neglect and a seven-day ultimatum issued by concerned members of the community to the state government to address the 10 year agony they have faced battling erosion. The people had decried inaction to a menace that has claimed lives and destroyed several properties. Desperate for attention, the people had placed on notice, their desire to take to the streets on for peaceful protest stating, that they will carry…

The minister of state for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva has resigned to seek the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket in the upcoming governorship election in Bayelsa State. According to Reuters report, Mr Sylva tendered his resignation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari last week, but the details of the resignation were kept private until now though his aides had dismissed earlier reports of his interest in the race. Mr Sylva was appointed to the Petroleum ministry in 2019 by Buhari, who has kept the position of Petroleum minister to himself. Mr Sylva, 58, was Bayelsa State governor from 2008 to 2012,…

The people of Obogoro Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, have issued seven days ultimatum to the state government to urgently address the issue of the coastal erosion that has claimed several lives and properties in the last 10 years. The people said they cannot fight the government but that they will go to the street for peaceful protest stating that they will carry their canopies, cooking pots, sleeping mattresses and continue to sleep in front of the Government House gate until the contractor for the project to address the menace is mobilized to site. Addressing a…

Women have been challenged to wake up and push their way into political and other decision making positions if the development changes they need and desire are to be met. A special guest at the just concluded one-day Water Assembly, March 23, for Niger Delta women, Mr. Wakebe Davidson Ere, a director at the Bayelsa State Ministry of Environment threw the challenge while delivering a goodwill message at the event organized by a frontline women focused non-governmental organization, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Center at the Catholic Pastoral Institute, Igwuruta, Rivers State, to mark the 2023 International Water Day and…

As calls for an end to fossil fuel continues efforts at creating sustainable clean energy to save the earth from the scourge of climate change fighting back long years of environmental abuse, the world is moving away from diesel and embracing hydrogen. With rail transport quietly embracing hydrogen as replacement for oil, Nigeria, still hoping to reduce oil induced gas emission by 2030, might soon be left behind on the energy scene. Time to develop plans for a Nigeria beyond oil. The Hydrogen trains are in Europe, Asia and spreading. Alstom’s CoradiaiLint hydrogen train runs in Sweden Alstom’s CoradiaiLint passenger…

Nigerian rivers especially those in the Niger Delta region suffer from serious pollution from mining activities exposing communities to lack of water or condemnation to highly contaminated water. From indiscriminate dumping of wastes in drainages which end up in the streams and rivers pushing into seas, individuals on their part, help choke the ecosystem. Nature protectors are calling for a right for the rivers to make them breathe just as their UK counterparts.

Lewes council in the United Kingdom passes motion recognizing Sussex river’s rights to protection, amid growing concerns over pollution of waterways The River Ouse is on course to be the first river in England to be granted legal rights, as part of a growing movement to bolster protection for nature through the law. Lewes district council passed rights of river motion acknowledging the rights of nature as a way of improving the health of local rivers by giving them similar protection to people, and agreed there was “a case to be made for considering our interactions with our local waterways”.…

The Federal Executive Council presided over by President Buhari has approved the Federal Ministry of Environment & Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) memorandum for the construction of Centre of Excellence for Environmental Restoration at Wiiyaakara, Bori, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State by CCECC. The Council also approved the construction of a 100-Bed Hospital in favour of Tanit Medical Engineering Ltd at the sum of #18,308,463,225.37 in Tai, Ogoni. President Buhari said he is committed to implementing the UN Environment Programme, UNEP Report on the livelihood component of the Ogoni Clean Up project. Health challenges including infertility, cancer, eye…

As Nigerians continue to react over the conviction of the former deputy Senate president, Ike Ekwerenmadu on charges of illegal organ harvesting in far away United Kingdom, news have broken over a silent medical revolution taking place in Ekwerenmadu’s neighbouring home state, Abia. A team of Nigerian specialist doctors at the Federal Medical Center, Umuahia have reported 11 successful transplantation of kidneys, a very much needed but missing service in the country. Trending on social media is the news of the feat by a team of six medics. A note from the team leader read: “Just coming out of theatre.…