Lagos State, which includes Nigeria’s most populous city of 15.4 million, has announced a ban on single-use plastics and styrofoam in order to reduce the plastic pollution that chokes the region. The ban would be immediate, according to a statement from the state government, but enforcement and implementation would not be so straightforward, environmental experts […]
A fire that ignited at a Nigerian oil pipeline Friday has now claimed 60 lives, Reuters reported Monday. Officials gave a death toll of 16 on Friday, but a spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) updated that figure Monday. The fire broke out in southeast Nigeria near the city of Aba and was […]
Nigeria declared a national disaster in four states Monday in response to deadly flooding that National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) spokesperson Sani Datti partly attributes to climate change, CNN reported. “Based on the data available, 100 people have so far died in 10 states,” Datti said Monday, as Al Jazeera reported. Weeks of heavy rain […]
Amnesty International is calling for an international investigation into Royal Dutch Shell‘s practices, alleging in a new report released Tuesday that the oil giant was involved in human rights violations committed by the Nigerian government in the early 1990s. The report, created following a review of thousands of internal company documents and testimony statements, charges […]
By Andy Rowell The decades-long struggle for social and environmental justice in the Niger Delta continues, largely unseen by the wider world. On Aug. 11, hundreds of people from the Niger Delta stormed the Belema flow station gas plant owned by Shell in the Rivers State region of the Delta. The plant transports crude oil […]
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