209 posts
by HOMEf | May 27, 2021 | Fossil Politics
… Encourages more groups to sue oil companies The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) and the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the...
by HOMEf | May 24, 2021 | Fossil Politics, Press Release
Civil society groups in Nigeria have urged the Nigerian government to compel Shell to clean up the massive pollution its extractive activities have created in the Niger Delta and cautioned...
by HOMEf | May 4, 2021 | Fossil Politics, Policy Paper
On the 10th of April 2021, the governments of Uganda and Tanzania, alongside the French multinational Total and the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), signed the final agreements...
by HOMEf | Apr 23, 2021 | Fossil Politics
The people of Opuama community in Egbema Kingdom, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State have continued to lament on tragedies that have befallen them following a terrifying oil...
by HOMEf | Mar 31, 2021 | Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Ikike
This is our Year of Building Alliances and Resistance. We are strengthening our capacity to break barriers to the recovery of climate resilience, to defend communities, stop destructive extraction and...
by HOMEf | Feb 26, 2021 | Fossil Politics, General
The Polluters’ Judgment Roundtable was held at Oronto Douglas Conference Hall, HOMEF’s International Headquarters in Benin City on 23 February 2021 Over the last six decades the Niger Delta region...
by HOMEf | Feb 26, 2021 | Fossil Politics, General
Welcome words by Nnimmo Bassey, Director, HOMEF, at the Polluters’ Judgements Roundtable held at Oronto Douglas Conference Hall, HOMEF Head Quarters, Benin City, Nigeria. When Chief Fidelis Oguru, Mr Alali...
by HOMEf | Feb 4, 2021 | Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics
by Eddy Wifa and Titilayo Adebola – On 29 January 2021, thirteen years after four Nigerian farmers and fisherfolks, Chief Fidelis Oguru, Mr Alali Efanga, Chief Barizaa Dooh and Elder Friday Alfred Akpan,...
by HOMEf | Jan 20, 2021 | Eco-Instigator, Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Ikike
Welcome to the last edition of our Eco-Instigator for 2020. It has been a remarkable year in many ways. We have moved from the cover story in the first edition,...
by HOMEf | Nov 6, 2020 | Fossil Politics, Hunger Politics, Ikike
The major sources of the conflict we are having in the world today are traceable to our exploitative relationship with Nature. The predatory and destructive activities of humans (including the...
by HOMEf | Oct 15, 2020 | Books, Fossil Politics, Hunger Politics, Ikike
Fish has both economic and nutritional importance to man and society. It is a veritable source of livelihood for many in rural communities especially. It can be said that the...
by HOMEf | Oct 15, 2020 | Eco-Instigator, Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Ikike
The cover story for our last edition was the Coronavirus as it has affected the environment, food systems and human rights. The activities reported in this edition were conducted under...