by Nnimmo | Dec 11, 2018 | Alternatives, Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Dirty Energy, Environment, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
President Buhari made a subtle Climate justice pitch in Katowice There is cautious optimism that nations may get serious about climate change as the 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) opened in Katowice,...
by Nnimmo | Nov 19, 2018 | Alternatives, Analysis, Biosafety, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Development alternatives, Environment, Food, Militarism, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
Do Not Betray Africa on SynBio and Gene Drives As representatives of a broad range of African civil society organisations (CSOs), we do not feel represented by the delegations of Nigeria and South Africa, speaking on behalf of African Group, in their attempt to speak...
by Nnimmo | Nov 17, 2018 | Analysis, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Dirty Energy, Environment, Poetry, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
I dream of clean creeks. Writing about the creeks and swamps of the Niger Delta can be quite a struggle for me at times. Many times, I have set aside my poetry quill and declared to myself that I would no longer write poems like these. But then something happens that...
by Nnimmo | Nov 12, 2018 | Alternatives, Analysis, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Environment, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth, Stories
My weekly column, The Instigator, commenced on Friday 9 November 2018 in The Leadership newspaper. You can join the weekly conversation by getting the hard copies on by looking it up online. We will be sharing the pieces here after they had been published in The...
by Nnimmo | Oct 26, 2018 | Alternatives, Analysis, Biosafety, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Dirty Energy, Environment, Food, Poetry, Policy, Stories
We are glad to serve you a feisty edition of your informative Eco-Instigator. In it you will find articles and reports from our projects and our continuous struggles for ecological justice. Due to the focus of extractive industry on offshore exploration and...
by Nnimmo | Sep 25, 2018 | Biosafety, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Culture, Environment, Food, Policy
Is There Biosafety in Nigeria? At a recent HOMEF dialogue with farmers, most of the participants declared that they have never heard of anything called genetically modified organisms (GMOs). When they got to know what GMOs are, they all declared that genetically...
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