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Time for Accountability and Decommissioning
The Niger Delta sits on one of the world's most ecologically damaged landscapes: a region whose natural wealth has been extracted for decades while its communities absorb the compounding costs of pollution, abandoned infrastructure, and political neglect. The oil...
Laugh, Resist, Survive
At a time of deepening ecological crisis, widening social injustice, and rising activist burnout, environmental justice advocates are advancing an unexpected yet powerful response to the demand for resilience, urgency, and moral courage - humour. Activists are always...
Eco-Instigator #51
We welcome this edition of the Eco-Instigator with a deepened sense of urgency and an unshaken commitment to ecological justice. This edition comes at a time when the fractures in our socio-ecological systems are no longer subtle but have become more visible in forced...
Food Systems are not Neutral
Sustain-Ability Academy is a knowledge and learning platform of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) that creates space for critical conversations on environmental justice, food systems, and socio-ecological transformation. It brings together students, activists,...
Charting The Path to Greater Resilience
The Makoko demolition is not an isolated event but part of a broader pattern of urban displacement and marginalisation. What emerged from this dialogue is a clear and compelling narrative of injustice, but also of resilience.
Community cries for help after massive oil spill
Communities in Ogulagha and Okuntu, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, are facing a severe environmental crisis following a major oil spill that began impacting their shorelines on January 30, 2026. Fishers, who depend entirely on the waters for their...
Conversations on Ogoni Struggles: Past Wounds and Future Risks
Ogoniland’s oil crisis is often described as a historical tragedy, but it is not mere history, as oil spills continue to occur in communities across Ogoniland. Land and water remain polluted, and the impact of oil exploration and exploitation is still being felt in...
Endless Oil Spills
Ogoniland continues to suffer from decades of oil spills from abandoned infrastructures, including recent incidents in B-Dere (May 2025), Kpean (August 2025) as well as Eteo- Eleme (June 2023) which have destroyed farmlands, contaminated water, and displaced...
Eco-Instigator #50
We welcome this 50th edition of the Eco-Instigator with mixed feelings: both of excitement and sobriety. Excitement because our collective voice for ecological justice has continued to grow stronger with every passing season for the past 50 editions; and sobriety...
Makoko: Eviction is not Development
Makoko is an important fishing community located in Yaba Local Government Area of Lagos State, overlooking the Third Mainland Bridge. Demolition squads accompanied by armed security have been bulldozing the community of 300,000 persons from the last week of December...
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