Wicked Genes
Wicked Genes Have you considered the many techie graveyards littered with DDT, Agent Orange and all? Peddler of wicked genes, will you slide on gene drives? Knocking out, annihilating traits and yellowing all fruit flies…
Will Ogoni Breathe Fresh Air Again?
Five Years after UNEP Report – Will Ogoni Breathe Again? As the water gushed the smell of petroleum products filled the air. Indeed, one would be right to wonder if he was pumping up petrol. We asked to know what t…
Super Evacuation Highway
Government says the Superhighway is essential as an evacuation route for the proposed deep sea port on the Atlantic coastline. What we are not told is where the goods (or indeed, what goods) would be evacuated to! Will t…
Eco-Defenders Resolve to Monitor Ogoni Clean-up
Eco-Defenders Resolve to Monitor Ogoni Clean-Up On the implementation of the clean-up, the consultative meeting noted that the Federal Government has demonstrated significant commitment in commencing the clean-up of Ogon…
What can go wrong has gone wrong
What can go wrong has gone wrong Environmental monitoring is often carried out to ensure that standards are maintained to ensure environmental and human health. In other words, we monitor to ensure that nothing goes wron…
The Gap Between Solid Minerals and Oil
The National Assembly and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources occupy key vantage points to leverage calm in the oil fields of the Niger Delta. They can make this happen by having communities take their place as true stak…
GMOs Threaten our Food Security and Food Sovereignty
GMOs Threaten our Food Security GMOs do not necessarily yield higher than natural crops. They promote monocultures and will promote land grabbing and thus displace and impoverish small scale farmers. GMOs depend on toxic…
What the Nigerian National Confab Agreed on Biosafety and GMOs
During the 2014 Nigerian National Conference (Confab), three committees made recommendations with regard to handling of Biosafety in Nigeria and with particular reference to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). As at t…
Verified:GMOs Are Officially Approved to Be Grown in Nigeria
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) Are Officially Approved to Be Grown in Nigeria The fact that GMOs are approved to be grown in Nigeria is not in doubt. What is disputed is why the approval was surreptitious, to the …
Oil Politics – echoes of Ecological Wars
Oil Politics – echoes of Ecological Wars This is to announce Oil Politics – echoes of Ecological Wars a forthcoming book by Nnimmo Bassey published by Daraja Press. Set out in seven sections, this book of 54 essays deals…
How Safe are Monsanto’s GMOs?
GMOs are basically regulated because their safety is in doubt. The approval granted Monsanto to conduct field trials of genetically modified maize requires that these crops should keep a distance of 20m from non GMO farm…
Road, Yes; Displacement, NO!
The Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, organized a two- day Community dialogue and an Environmental Impact Assessment EIA training for communities that will be critically impacted by the proposed Digital Superh…
Standing Before History
Standing Before History In his statement before execution, Ken Saro-Wiwa declared: we all stand before history. Today, in another sense, we all stand at the brink of history. We stand at the line denoting the fact of the…
For Our Biosafety & Biosecurity*
The saying goes that a people united can never be defeated. Today we affirm that our unity is built on sound knowledge and on a commitment to ensure that our agricultural and food systems are not by any means compromised…
Nigerian Biosafety Law: A Keg of Gun Powder
Nigerian Biosafety Law: A Keg of Gun Powder As you will hear in this conference, the Nigerian Biosafety Management Act (2015) is a highly defective piece of legislation contrived to open up Nigeria for a literal GMO inv…
