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Usenobong Explains Why Akwa Ibom Is Boiling
Thursday, 24 March 2011, 12:56 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE remote cause of the current political bloodletting and ethnic violence in Akwa Ibom State has statrted to filter into the open as tempers continue to rise in the state. This is coming as some 40 persons are feared killed in Abak Local Government ... More >>
Why We're Clamouring For Water As Human Right In Nigeria
Wednesday, 23 March 2011, 10:12 am | Akanimo Sampson
FOREMOST environmental rights advocacy group in Nigeria, Environmental Rights Action (ERA) has advanced reasons why they are lobbying the Federal Government to domesticate water as one of the human rights in the country. More >>
Account For N15bn You Inherited From Omehia, ACN Tells Amaec
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 10:25 am | Akanimo Sampson
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship candidate in Rivers State, Dr Abiye Sekibo, has challenge the re-election seeking Governor Chibuike Amaechi, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to account for the N15 billion he allegedly inherited from ... More >>
Nigeria: Group Accuses Governors Of Subverting Democracy
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 10:18 am | Akanimo Sampson
With the April polls around the corner in Nigeria, a Niger Delta group has accused state governors, particularly those of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of subverting democracy in the country. The group is accusing the governors of what ... More >>
Tobacco Bill: Era Celebrates, Hails Senate
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 10:45 am | Akanimo Sampson
It was party time for staff of Environmental Rights Action (ERA) in Lagos, Benin City, and Port Harcourt on Tuesday, as a cheery news from Abuja sets the foremost environmental rights advocacy group agog with joy.They were also full of praises ... More >>
Protect Farmers' Rights, Group Urges UN Food Treaty
Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 10:48 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is urging the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture to do more to protect farmers' customary rights over biological resources. More >>
Niger Delta Communities, Era To FG: Regulate Oil Firms
Friday, 11 March 2011, 9:46 am | Akanimo Sampson
OIL bearing and hosting communities of the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas basin, and Environmental Rights Action (ERA) rose from a meeting in Effurun, Delta State, resolving to mount pressure on the Federal Government to urgently regulate ... More >>
CLO Blasts Jonathan's Security For Assault On Journalists
Thursday, 10 March 2011, 9:20 am | Akanimo Sampson
CIVIL Liberties Organisation (CLO) says the assault on some journalists in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, on Tuesday, by President Goodluck Jonathan's security aides is totally unacceptable, aand smacks of a dictatorship. More >>
Bassey, Other Activists Hail UK Ruling Against BP
Thursday, 10 March 2011, 9:17 am | Akanimo Sampson
IMPRESSED by the indictment of BP by the United Kingdom (UK) Government, Chair of the Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), Mr. Nnimmo Bassey, said on Wednesday that they want the Federal Government to hold oil and gas companies operating in ... More >>
Presidential Debate In Benin City, Focuses On Environment
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 10:05 am | Akanimo Sampson
AHEAD of the April presidential election, a debate is billed to take place at the main auditorium of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Benin City, the Edo State capital, on Friday, March 18 at 1.00pm. More >>
Commissioners Battle To Deliver Home Base For Amaechi
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 10:03 am | Akanimo Sampson
PUBLIC functionaries in Rivers State, including commissioners, senior special assistants as well as local government chairmen, are currently battling to deliver their home bases to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the coming April polls. More >>
CLO Blasts Jonathan, S'south Governors On Rights Abuses
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 10:02 am | Akanimo Sampson
Foremost human rights and pro-democracy group in Nigeria, Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) says there are still acts of impunity by the armed security forces in the country under the watch of President Goodluck Jonathan. The group also hit at some South-South ... More >>
Why We Named N4bn Ring Road After Ada-George, By Amaechi
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 10:00 am | Akanimo Sampson
RE-ELECTION seeking Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, has explained why his administration named the N4.00 billion Okrika Ring Road after former Governor Rufus Ada-George, one of his frontline backers for the coming April polls. More >>
ERA, Nigerian Group Critices Dutch Police, Wants Ofehe Freed
Tuesday, 8 March 2011, 10:42 am | Akanimo Sampson
NIGERIA's foremost environmental rights advocacy group, Environmental Rights Action (ERA) has lashed out at the Dutch Police for allegedly violating the human rights of a Nigerian environmental campaigner, Mr. Sunny Ofehe. More >>
Bode George: Celebrating Graft, A National Shame
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 10:03 am | Akanimo Sampson
PORT HARCOURT lawyer, Mr. Chuks Uguru, has strongly frowned at President Goodluck Jonathan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for celebrating the release of Chief Olabode George, from proison for fraud. ... More >>
April Polls: Ogoni Royal Fathers Back Ex-Ssg For Senate
Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 10:49 am | Akanimo Sampson
Ogoni royal fathers in Rivers State, on the platform of the Supreme Council of Traditional Rulers of Ogoni, have finally endorsed the candidature of the immediate past Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr.Magnus Ngei Abe, for the coming April polls. Abe, ... More >>
CLO Warns, Says Bayelsa 'Ll Erupt Into Political War
Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 10:45 am | Akanimo Sampson
Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has warned that unless urgent steps are taken to address the worrisome insecurity problems in Bayelsa State, the state will turn into a war zone. More >>
April Polls: Peterside Gets 'Foreign' Support
Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 11:09 am | Akanimo Sampson
Immediate past Works Commissioner in Rivers State, Dakuku Peterside, has started to receive 'foreign' support for his ambition for a House of Representatives seat in this coming April polls. More >>
Amaechi Gets UK Endorsement For April Polls
Friday, 18 February 2011, 9:49 am | Akanimo Sampson
The re-election bid of Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, has received a seeming moral-boosting diplomatic endorsement on Thursday, with the Government of the United Kingdom extoling the administration's policies and programmes. More >>
FRESH Rift In ANPP As Chief Tells Court To Sack Onu, Ali
Thursday, 17 February 2011, 9:27 am | Akanimo Sampson
A FRESH leadership crisis is currently brewing in the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) as its former National Vice Chairman, Mr. Asukewe Ikoawaji, is spoiling to oust the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, and National Secretary, Alhaji ... More >>
