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The PIA and Oil Company Divestments: A Time to Act
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and We the People invited Niger Delta communities and civil society activists to a one-day conversation on the recently approved Nigerian Petroleum Industry Act. The event which held at the Ken Saro Wiwa foundation innovation...
Coalition demands a ban of Bt Cowpea in Nigeria and neighbouring West African countries
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...
Pushing back BT Cowpea in Africa
Nigeria is the first country to have approved the commercial release of genetically modified (GM) cowpea, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Cowpea (popularly known as beans) is an indigenous African crop that forms a staple food and a major source of...
Global Oceans Hub Africa concerned about the state of the Gulf of Guinea
The Gulf of Guinea is plagued by high level of insecurity and economic activities of dubious value. The region is largely not policed and is thus a zone of plunder with hundreds of thousands of stolen crude oil moving unhindered in the area. The fisheries stock in the...
Why the Right to Food Must be Enshrined in the Constitution: HOMEF to the National Assembly
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...
Africa’s Fossil-Fuel Trap
A Response to “The Divestment Delusion” The greatest share of the burden of addressing climate change lies with the major polluters—the wealthy countries of Europe, North America, and East Asia—that are disproportionately responsible for causing the crisis. Some...
Eco-Instigator #34
We welcome you to the last edition of our quarterly magazine for 2021. It has been a tough but memorable year in many ways for us at HOMEF. I salute the incredible HOMEF team and all our partners and supporters for their unparalleled commitment. Our projects continued...
AIETO’s OML 29 Well 01 Blowout – An Ecological Horror tale
For about 39 days the OML29 Well 1 located in the creek by the Santa Barbara River in Nembe, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, belonging to AITEO Oil and Petroleum Company had spewed crude into the river and the Santa Barbara environment unabated. According to the locals the...
Woes of the Wellhead
A special report on the wellhead blowout from Aiteo OML 29 Well 1 in Nembe, Bayelsa State. Hundreds of well blowouts have been reported during the history of the oil and gas drilling activities globally. These undesired events have led to loss of lives and utter...
Africa caught in the Fossil Trap
Before the rise of fossil resources extraction in Africa, most countries operated agrarian economies as their primary source of exchange. Other economies depended on mining while some others had a mix of mining and agriculture. The economic impact of oil discovery...
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