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House of Reps Pulls a Stop on GMOs
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance have commended the House of Representatives on the resolution to comprehensively investigate the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)into Nigeria and for a halt...
Ogoni Oil in the Eye of the Storm
In 1993, Shell was forced out of Ogoniland where it had extracted crude oil non-stop for decades with unbelievable ecological consequences. The Ogoni people, mobilized under the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), had issued a set of demands...
Clean up the Niger Delta and resolve the Environmental Genocide
Nigerians rightfully deserve to live in a society that boasts of peace, human security, and prosperity in the conviction that all Citizens and Public Officers have a duty to make every constructive contribution towards truly attaining these goals....
Eco-Instigator #43
The year 2024 is promising. We’ve already hit the ground running with several activities, including the first in-person meeting with our Omega Resilience Awards, Africa. It was a moment to have a holistic feel of how the fellows were navigating the...
Farmers in Enugu State Embrace Agroecology
On the 17th of April, 2024, Health of Mother Earth Foundation in collaboration with the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance and the Network of Women and Youth in Agriculture held a practical training on Agroecology for farmers in Enugu State. This training focused on...
Learning from the Wise (LftW) with Morris Alagoa
Niger Delta – a region blessed with biodiversity and natural re-sources, the most fertile and greenest part of Nigeria – has over the years since the discovery of oil in commercial quantity and production experienced what would be described as retrogression. The oil...
Stop Poisoning Us, Communities Tell Oil Companies
The Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been home to oil and gas extraction since the 1950s, when oil was first discovered in commercial quantities. Since then, search operations had gone on for hydrocarbons both on land and on water – leading to more discoveries...
Don’t Geoengineer Africa (Policy Brief)
Africa is being targeted by various actors to advance some of the most controversial technologies ever conceived, Geoengineering is one of such awful technologies. We see geoengineering proponents increasingly attempting to normalize geoengineering and confusing the...
GMOS, Biosafety And Human Rights
Regulation of biosafety in Nigeria is crucial for the protection of human health, conservation of the environment, ensuring agricultural sustain-ability, complying with international standards, building consumer confidence, addressing ethical considerations, promoting...
School Of Ecology On Weaning From Fossil Addiction And Healing Territories
In the over 60years of crude oil exploration in Nigeria, oil-bearing communities and their environments have been plagued by heart-wrenching impacts from this unwholesome venture of oil and gas exploration ranging from massive pollution of land, water, and air leading...