The Niger Delta Youth Council (NDYC) has faulted the National Assembly over the allocation of three per cent oil and gas companies operating cost to oil producing communities in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).
In a statement issued in Abuja, NDYC’s National Coordinator, Jator Abido, enjoined Niger Delta stakeholders to insist on the 10 per cent allocation of operating cost of oil firms to host communities before President Muhammadu Buhari signs the bill into law.
It argued that the three per cent as proposed in the bill was unfair since host communities had always been on the receiving end of the environment degradation and deadly diseases caused by oil exploration activities.
Oil spillThe thorny issue of oil spillage and the debates around it are as old as when Nigeria began crude oil exploration in the Niger Delta region. But it was the 1970 oil spill in Ogoniland, which led to a £26m fine against Shell in Nigeria that eventually put the country in the eye of the storm globally. Many judgments have since been delivered against oil companies, the Nigerian government and/or their representatives and supervising agencies for the degradation of oil-bearing communities and losses of lives and property.
However, the phenomenon has failed to abate, as the Federal Government, between 1970 and 2000, reported about 7000 spills. Given the country’s weak regulatory oversight, as well as poor data gathering capacity, statistics of data spill is, according to many experts, inaccurate and mainly underreported. Amnesty International had reported that since 2014, Eni alone had about 820 spills in the Niger Delta accounting for about 4.1 million litres. Also, since 20
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State govs now agents of deforestation, says HoCoN
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In their quest for mechanised farming and construction of highways, state governors have become the major agents of deforestation, leading to land grabs that deprive communities of their land and livelihood.
This was one of the conclusions reached at a general assembly on “Connected Resistance”, organised by the Host Communities Network, HoCoN, with support from Global Greengrants Fund, GGF, and Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State.
The rights group also held that host communities bear the brunt of environmental degradation from resource extractions, while a few individuals who are supposed to represent the communities in the resource benefits sharing, live in luxury and leave the majority in poverty.
Shell: Di Dutch Appeal Court judgement don vindicate Ken Saro-Wiwa - Celestine AkpoBari
29 January 2021
Wetin we call dis foto,
Ogoni Environment Activist Celestine Akpobari as im dey for Ogoni creek dey show oil spill
Belle dey sweet many Niger Delta pipo as di Dutch Appeal Court give judgement say Shell Nigeria dey responsible for di leaks for Niger Delta come order dem to pay compensation to di farmers wey carry dem go court.
For Ogoni environment rights activist, Celestine AkpoBari, dis judgement don vindicate Ken Saro Wiwa wey die sake of di fight for environmental rights and protection. Dis judgement dey give me joy. If na Nigerian Court give di judgement e for be anoda tin but na dia own goment fit convict dem say dem commit many atrocities against di environment dem dem no get any hiding place.
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