African Gong Media

30/09/2025

Justice must not be delayed or denied; it must be delivered with urgency and without compromise.

13/09/2025

24/08/2025

CSOs INTENSIFY CALLS FOR FOSSIL FUEL PHASE-OUT, LAUNCH CAMPAIGN IN OGONI
As the federal government moves to resume oil production in Ogoni Rivers State, a campaign to end fossil fuel extraction has been officially launched in Bori, with activists, civil rights advocates, and local stakeholders declaring that the time has come for the Niger Delta region to join the global shift toward renewable energy
The initiative, supported by Het-Actiefonds, was launched by the Kallop Humanitarian and Environmental Centre at a community stakeholders’ meeting in Bori, on Wednesday.
The meeting made passionate calls for the federal government to abandon plans to resume oil operations in Ogoni. Participants also criticized aspects of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), particularly the exclusion of Khana Local Government from the Host Communities Development Trust (HDTC), despite housing oil facilities.
Executive Director, Kallop Humanitarian and Environmental Centre, Mr. Anthony Aalo, during the launch, emphasised that there is a global shift from fossil fuels and the case of Ogoni and the Niger Delta at large cannot be left out.
He also explained that the campaign is a continuation of long-standing local advocacy to end fossil fuel extraction in the Niger Delta region. “This is the beginning of a non-violent campaign to make fossil fuel extraction a thing of the past in Ogoniland. Fossil fuel is now seen as dirty energy. Around the world, people are moving away from it, and Ogoni must not be an exception. “Even before the government started talking about oil resumption in Ogoni, we’ve been advocating for an end to fossil fuel extraction, not just in Ogoni but across the Niger Delta,” he said.
Aalo noted that the environmental impact of decades of oil activities remains the strongest reason for the call. “You can see the devastation everywhere, polluted farmlands, dead rivers, poisoned air. We must step forward to embrace renewable energy,” he said.
The Kallop Humanitarian and Environmental Centre executive director also raised alarm over the clause in the PIA that mandates host communities to bear the cost of pipeline repairs from their development funds and called for a review. “That’s not fair. It’s a way for oil companies and the government to abdicate their responsibility of safeguarding lives and property,” he stated.
Mr. Dennis Legbara of the Civil Rights Council described fossil fuel extraction as a death sentence for many locals. “Our people are dying young because of the pollution. It’s time we follow the global trend toward clean energy. “We must not be swayed by temporary handouts but must think of future generations,” he stated.
Women also lent their voice to the movement, with Nwiluka stressing the gender impact of oil pollution. “Women can’t even farm anymore because the land is poisoned. Let this campaign begin in earnest. It’s time,” she stated

24/07/2025

Kallop Demands an end to Fossil Fuel.
Kallop Humanitarian and Environmental Centre embark on an advocacy campaign to End Fossil Fuel activities in Ogoniland and Niger Delta on 23/7/2025 at Bori the Traditional Headquarters of Ogoni People, with various members from different Communities in attendance .The executive director, Comrade Anthony Aalo in his opening remark informed participants that the call to ending Fossil Fuel is timely because since Oil was discovered in 1958 the people have not witnessed the impact of extractive activities. According to Mr Aalo, the campaign's main focus is to end Fossil Fuel and shift towards a clean energy that is saver for the environment. He also urges Shell to clean the mess they have created as stipulated in the Unep report. The advocacy campaign was seen with participants with placards .

21/07/2025

Latest Ogoni news covering current happenings in Ogoniland. Get recent updates on Ogoni UNEP report, Ogoni clean up, MOSOP, Ogoni politics, Ogoni day.

17/07/2025

WATCH LIVE HERE;

MR PRESIDENT PRESIDES OVER AN EXPANDED FEDERAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING IN HONOUR OF HIS EXELLENCY, LATE FORMER PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, GCFR

08/02/2025

You are all Specially invited to this
worderdefu events.

04/02/2025

Press Release III February 3, 2025

OIL SPILL WELCOMES ENVIRONMENTAL VARSITY TO OGONILAND

Crude oil spill has been reported in Ogale in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, today, February 3 thus welcoming the Federal University of Environmental Technology, Ogoni, established today by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR through his assent to a bill passed by the National Assembly sponsored by Senator Barinaadaa Mpigi representing the Rivers South-East Senatorial District.

Members of the Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre's (YEAC-Nigeria) "One Million Youth Volunteers Network of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters in the Niger Delta" in the area reported to the organisation that the oil spill allegedly occurred today at the Ogale Manifold.

The volunteers also reported to YEAC-Nigeria that the manifold spill, after it filled the underground pits, started flowing freely to the pipeline right of way that separated Lot-1 of the Ogoni cleanup Project of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) of the Federal Ministry of Environment in Ogale.

The volunteers said they suspected that the spill at the manifold owned and operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria, a company that the community has been in a United Kingdom High Court with till date over previous oil spill is caused by equipment (valve) failure while contactors were carrying out maintenance work on the facility today.

The volunteers reported and decried the associated violence and application of force by the Eleme Youth President, Mr. Walter Olaka during his by invading the spill site with alleged armed boys, confiscating trucks that were being used to evacuate the spilled crude oil, beating up some of the drivers whose trucks were already seized and parked at the Eleme Council Secretariat and injuring some persons in the process including Mr. Gift Gongogo Nene who was allegedly daggered on the head by some of the boys reported to have invaded the scene with dangerous small arms and light weapons including guns.

While calling for Police investigation into the incidents with a view of restoring peace among the warring parties, the Advocacy Centre, through its Crude Oil Spill Alert System (COSAS), in a statement in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital signed by its Executive Director, Dr. Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface called on the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) to carry out a joint investigation visit (JIV) on the spill site, invoke sections of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), 2021 and ensure that containment and clean-up are done with adequate compensation paid to those whose economic crops are impacted by the spill in the area.

DR. FYNEFACE DUMNAMENE FYNEFACE
Executive Director, YEAC-Nigeria.
03-02-2025.

26/12/2024