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…
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…
Blood Cattle
Blood Cattle: With so much blood shed so that cattle may roam roughshod over the land, it does make sense for us to rethink our meat production and consumption patterns. Violent conflicts have become so pervasive in Nige…
