by HOMEf | Jul 18, 2023 | Fossil Politics, General
The Niger Delta is home to one of the largest mangrove forests in the world and doubles as the region with the largest mangrove forest in Africa. The region is generally rich in biodiversity. Unfortunately, oil exploration and exploitation have had, and still have,...
by HOMEf | Jun 26, 2023 | Fossil Politics, General, Hunger Politics, Ikike
Africa has witnessed varying degrees of exploitation – exploitation of her peoples, environment, and the systemic strangulation of her ethos. This birthed the partitioning of the continent – forming super colonial structures, that though have changed...
by HOMEf | May 3, 2023 | Fossil Politics, General, Press Release
On April 25, 2023, frontline civil society organisations, socio-cultural groups, academics, traditional rulers, and individuals drawn from the Niger Delta states of Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, and Rivers assembled in the city of Port...
by HOMEf | Aug 11, 2022 | Hunger Politics
On Thursday 4 August 2022, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) hosted a workshop with judicial officials, lawyers and representatives of the Ministry of Justice which examined issues on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and biosafety in Nigeria. A major...
by HOMEf | Jul 7, 2022 | Hunger Politics, Ikike
Emerging technologies in the areas of genomics, artificial intelligence, automaton, and block chains are driving new forms of extraction and re-ordering African society, economics and ecosystems with similar disruptive shocks to previous colonization waves. Due to the...
