Deconsecrated for Coal
Deconsecrated for Coal: Interconnectivity of struggles – part 1 One of the most jolting statements I have heard in recent times was at a Climate Camp, and Summer School on Skills for System Change, in Rhineland, wh…
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…
Eco-Instigator #12’s Home Run
New edition of your Eco-Instigator is here! The second quarter of 2016 was a roller-coaster season. Highlights include the continued struggles to save our last remaining rainforests in the Cross River axis of Nigeria. Th…
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…
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…
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…
When the Land Bleeds
A day at Ogoni was a homecoming of sorts for me yesterday when the global wave of #BreakFree actions touched down at Bori. The resolve of the Ogoni to peacefully and determinedly fight ecocide is legendary. The women, wi…
Break Free at Ogoni – Silence is Treason!
The MOSOP Peace Centre, Bori, Ogoni is a very significant location in the history of the struggle for a safe Niger Delta in which our peoples live in peace and in dignity and struggle for their rights non-violently. It i…
Oloibiri: A monument to Fossil Fuels
Break Free from Fossil Fuels actions commenced in Nigeria today, 10th May 2016, with a rally at Oil Well 1, Nigeria’s first oil well drilled in 1956. It was a gathering of hundreds of citizens, including community chiefs…
Burning Africa with the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement will see to the sinking of Small Island states and the roasting of Africa – a continent uniquely exposed to the vagaries of global warming. Of what use is it for poor vulnerable nations to smile…
