by HOMEf | Mar 7, 2022 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
A coalition of non-governmental organisations, farmer groups and research experts from various African countries call on the Nigerian government to revoke the permits granted by Nigeria’s National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) to the Institute for Agricultural...
by HOMEf | Mar 4, 2022 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has called on the National Assembly’s Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution to reinstate the clause on the ‘right to food’ which was reportedly deleted in the Constitution’s amendment Bill. This call was made in a...
by HOMEf | Nov 19, 2021 | Fossil Politics, Hunger Politics, Ikike, Press Release
The 5th International Rights of Nature Tribunal took place on Wednesday, November 3rd, and Thursday, November 4th at 4 pm (GMT) in Glasgow, alongside the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26). Due to COVID and traveling restrictions, this Tribunal was a...
by HOMEf | Nov 4, 2021 | Fossil Politics, Press Release
On the 22nd of October 2021, a selected group of Ogoni leaders attended a parley at State House with President Muhammadu Buhari, among other issues, the President stated that the ‘federal government will consider the request for the grant of pardon to finally close...
by HOMEf | Nov 4, 2021 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
We read with utter shock and disbelief the remarks made by the Director-General, National Biosafety Management Agency, (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba, at a one-day workshop, organised by the Environment Media Correspondents Association of Nigeria, where he...
by HOMEf | Nov 4, 2021 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
Civil society groups, researchers and analysts representing millions of Nigerians have asked the National Biosafety Management Agency to revoke permits recently granted for the commercial release of the TELA Maize. According to the group, the maize variety which has...