Recent Interventions
July 28, 2026
COMMUNIQUÉ ISSUED AT THE END OF THE 4TH MULTI-STAKEHOLDER CONFERENCE ON DEFORESTATION IN CROSS RIVER STATE ON THURSDAY, 23 JULY 2026
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July 23, 2026
We the People Hosts 4th Multistakeholder Conference to Advance Forest Protection and Tackle Illegal Mining
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July 2, 2026
We the People Holds 2nd Training for Forest Host Communities in Cross River State
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June 22, 2026
National Geographic Society and We the People Host Photo Camp in the Niger Delta
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June 17, 2026
Cross River Forest Host Communities Unite to Halt Deforestation and Build Community Resilience
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June 9, 2026
Mining Communities Spotlight, Livelihoods, Environmental Justice and Participation in Cross River
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June 5, 2026
We the People Marks World Environment Day 2026 with Documentary Screening and Community Dialogue on Gas Flaring
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March 30, 2026
We the People Webinar Calls for an End to Methane Emissions in the Niger Delta
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March 27, 2026
Bridging the Divide: #Includenaija Partners with State Police to Institutionalize Human Rights and Accountability
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March 27, 2026
Forest Host Communities Network Hold Community Dialogues on Anti-Deforestation and Resilience
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March 5, 2026
We the People and People’s Health Collective Hold Dialogue on Health Impact of Crude Oil in Egi Community
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October 27, 2025
We the People and Isa Wali Empowerment Initiative Host 3-Day Interactive Learning
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October 26, 2025
7- Decades of Ecocide: Time to Unite Victims and Demand Justice Being Resolutions of the People’s Environmental Assembly held in Port Harcourt on the 26th of September, 2025.
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September 26, 2025
People’s Environmental Assembly Aims to Unite Victims of Oil Extraction and Demand
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September 5, 2025
Strengthening Forest Governance in Cross River State through Review of the Forestry Law 2010
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August 22, 2025
We the People urges Youths and the Nigerian Police to Unite for Human Rights Enforcement
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August 12, 2025
International Youth Day– We the People Conference Calls for Inclusion and Rights Protection
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July 23, 2025
Communique issued at the end of the 3rd Multi Stakeholder Conference on Deforestation in Cross River State
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July 18, 2025
We the People Hosts Youth Civic Leadership Rally On “Empowered to Lead: Inspire, Influence and Impact” in University of Calabar
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July 17, 2025
We the People’s Multi Stakeholder Conference Raise Alarm Over Escalating Threat of Deforestation
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July 3, 2025
Empowering Women in Mining: Town Hall Meeting Builds Women’s Power and Agency for Environmental Justice
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July 3, 2025
We the People and NRGI Host Webinar on “Ending Gas Flaring and Reducing Methane Emissions
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June 11, 2025
We the People holds Dialogue on the Health Impacts of Hydrocarbon Pollution in the Niger Delta
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June 10, 2025
Town Hall Meeting: Egi Community Demand Ecological and Health Justice from TotalEnergies, Eni and Shell
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June 5, 2025
Media Statement: An Urgent Call to the Cross River State Government to Protect the State’s Environment and Forests
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June 4, 2025
We the People Train Youth Activists on Human Rights Protection, Policy Advocacy and Democratic Participation
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December 11, 2024
Capacity Strengthening Initiative Support Community Women Fighting Ecological Injustice
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November 28, 2024
FAKE DEAL: Behind Shell’s Multi-Billion Dollar Niger Delta Divestment Hoax
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November 11, 2024
Media Statement: Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Other Ogonis Murdered 29 Years Ago Still Waiting for Justice
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November 5, 2024
Profit, Pollution and Lies: Interrogating Shell’s Divestment Claims in the Niger Delta
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July 31, 2024
We the People Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Strengthening and Protecting the Civic Space and Civil Society Operational Environment in the Niger Delta
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July 18, 2024
We the People and HOMEF Train Communities on Environmental Monitoring and Eco Defending
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June 5, 2024
World Environment Day: We the People Advocates Pollution and Ecosystem Restoration in the Niger Delta
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May 3, 2024
We the People holds Legal Roundtable on Addressing Oil Company Divestment and Environmental Remediation in the Niger Delta
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April 19, 2024
Don’t Let Shell, ExxonMobil, Eni-Agip, Chevron & Total Leave Without Cleaning Up the Niger Delta.
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March 21, 2024
Town Hall Meeting to Mark International Day of Forests, Launch Mangrove Restoration Project
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February 29, 2024
Holding Oil Companies and their Partners Accountable: We the People Takes Campaign to Communities
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February 27, 2024
We the People Webinar Examines Harms of Oil Company Divestments and Insurance for Fossil Projects
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January 23, 2024
Shell Must Address Ecological, Health, Economic and Social Impacts Concerns in the Niger Delta Before Selling Assets
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November 1, 2023
We the People Sues National Assembly, Attorney General of the Federation on S.257 of the Petroleum Industry Act
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October 20, 2023
We the People holds Webinar to Commemorate 3rd Anniversary of the #EndSARS Protests, Reflect on Police Accountability for Atrocities
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September 20, 2023
We the People Trains Extractive Communities in the Niger Delta on Strategic Advocacy
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September 4, 2023
ILLEGAL MINING ACTIVITIES IN CROSS RIVER NATIONAL PARK OBAN SECTOR FOREST: A DEMAND FOR IMMEDIATE CESSATION.
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September 1, 2023
Oil Producing Communities, Experts and CSOs Worry Over Contentious Provision in PIA at WTP’s Webinar.
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July 21, 2023
Stakeholder Consultative Meeting Calls for Immediate Action to End Deforestation and Protect Wildlife
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July 18, 2023
We the People, Niger Delta Communities Set Agenda for Government on Climate Change Induced Flooding
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June 10, 2023
We the People’s Webinar Highlights Urgent Need for Environmental Accountability in Oil Industry Divestment in Nigeria
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May 14, 2023
People’s Tribunal Demands Reparations and Justice for Oil Impacted Communities in Africa
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May 10, 2023
We the People’s Conference on Loss and Damage Highlights Urgency for Climate Action
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April 26, 2023
Niger Delta Alternatives Convergence Unveils Socio-Ecological Agenda for the Niger Delta
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April 15, 2023
Oil Companies are not Divesting, they are Fleeing Accountability and Justice: Press Conference
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February 22, 2023
We the People Training Strengthens Capacity and Resilience of Oil-Producing Community Activists
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February 7, 2023
Nigeria’s 2023 Elections and the Quest for a Greener Nigeria: A Presidential Town Hall on Climate Change and Environmental Concerns
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December 7, 2022
We the People Holds Multi-Stakeholder Conference on Deforestation in Cross River state
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November 24, 2022
Multi-Stakeholder Conference on Oil Company Divestments in the Niger Delta
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October 7, 2022
NO DIVESTMENT WITHOUT RESTORATION: WE THE PEOPLE HOLDS PEOPLE DIVESTMENT CONFERENCE
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September 8, 2022
We the People Holds Press Conference, Launches New Report on Deforestation in Cross River State
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August 22, 2022
Ibeno Community Declare- ‘Exxon Mobil Cannot ‘Divest’ Without Ecological, Livelihood and Health Restoration’
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July 4, 2022
Climate Change and Environmental Remediation, Top Discussions at Niger Delta Convergence Hosted by HOMEF and We the People
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May 11, 2022
Cut and run – Pollute, don’t pay. Big Oil has perfected its playbook in the Niger Delta and is now looking to walk away.
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April 1, 2022
Nigerian Lives Matter: A Call to the Federal Government of Nigeria to Fulfil its Primary Constitutional Responsibility of Securing the Nation
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December 17, 2021
We the People Hosts Community Delegation from Senegal, Plan West African Climate Justice Movement
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November 23, 2021
Left to Die: We the People Presents New Report on Abuse of Children in Calabar, Cross River State
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November 2, 2021
Exoneration, not a Pardon, for Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Other Ogonis Murdered in 1995: Media Statement
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September 6, 2021
NNPC’s Push for Resumption of Oil Extraction in Ogoniland is Insensitive and Irresponsible-Text of We the People Press Conference.
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August 23, 2021
Living with Oil: We the People Presents Finding of Research on Impacts of Oil Extraction on Communities
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July 24, 2021
“Reject PIB for Failing to Address Key Issues” Being Text of Civil Society Position at a Press Conference on Petroleum Industry Bill Held in Lagos, Nigeria.
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July 12, 2021
We the People Holds Workshop to Validate Research Findings, Express Concern over Deforestation and Climate Impacts
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May 29, 2021
Communique of Civil Society Town Hall Meeting on Insecurity and Killings in Rivers State and Commemorating the National Day of Mourning.
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May 19, 2021
State of the Nation: A Call to President Muhammadu Buhari to the Stop the Bleeding and Take Action to End the Carnage
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April 20, 2021
“REDD+ Has Not Benefitted the People” Interview with Cross River State Forestry Chief
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March 31, 2021
‘We want 10% Equity Participation’ PANDEF Demands at We the People Conference on PIB
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March 23, 2021
The Challenges of Benefit Transfer to Oil Producing Communities in Nigeria — A chat with Ken Henshaw
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March 1, 2021
We the People Holds Workshop on Climate Change and Food Security in Southern Nigeria
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January 20, 2021
“We the People releases report of Killing in Rivers state between July and December 2020, demands accountability”
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October 27, 2020
Why we are also demanding an end to SARS and other forms of law enforcement brutality
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October 1, 2020
Police Disrupt We the People’s Independence Day Protest on Bad Governance, Insecurity
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September 4, 2020
We the People Raise Alarm over Shrinking Civic Space in Nigeria, Trains Journalists, Bloggers and Activists to Defend the Space
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August 5, 2020
“Corruption Allegations in NDDC Must be Investigated and Culprits Diligently Prosecuted” We the People Press Conference Demands
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June 30, 2020
Advocating for Street Children in Calabar: We the People Hosts Street Child Summit
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April 9, 2020
Over 300 kids live on the streets of Calabar, dangerously at risk of exposure to Covid19 if the government doesn’t act.
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March 18, 2020
Press Conference on the Military Invasion of Udoda Community in Ahaoda West LGA of Rivers State by the Nigerian Military.
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March 12, 2020
Documentary Evidence of Military Atrocity against communities in the Niger Delta
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December 10, 2019
We the People Validates Research Findings on Oil Sector Governance in Nigeria
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October 31, 2019
We the People and Cross River Communities Demand New Forest Protection Regime
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October 8, 2019
Origins of the Street Child Phenomenon in Calabar: An Interview with Researcher and Child Rights Campaigner Williams Arikpo
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July 15, 2019
We the People Engages Stakeholders on Ending Violent Killings in Rivers State
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June 7, 2019
Sex for Grades in Higher Institutions, We the People Conducts Survey in Tertiary Institutions
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May 29, 2019
We the People Leads National Day of Mourning in Rivers and Cross River States,
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December 11, 2018
We the People Takes Campaign Against Vote Buying and Violence to Rivers State Senatorial Districts
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December 8, 2018
International Anti- Corruption Day: We the People Renews Call for Government Action at Rally
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December 4, 2018
Election Related Fake News and Violence: We the People Collaborates with Social Media Influencers in Rivers State
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November 30, 2018
We the People Strategizes on Anti-Corruption Actions with Student Leaders in Rivers State
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October 10, 2018
“We are Being Extorted” Transporters Complain at We the People Training Workshop
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September 13, 2018
Poetry as Tool to Fight Corruption, We the People holds Anti-Corruption Poetry Contest
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July 27, 2018
We the People’s Anti-Corruption Boot Camp Trains 80 Young Nigerians to Report and Resist Corruption
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June 23, 2018
We the People and Policy Alert, Institute Prize for Open Government Journalism in the Niger Delta
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June 23, 2018
Mobilizing Young Nigerians to Fight Corruption, We the People Launches Youth Anti-Corruption Movement in Rivers State
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March 23, 2018
How Oil Contamination has Poisoned the People of Ekorinim in Cross River State for 15 years.
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March 23, 2018
“Our Forest is Disappearing at an Alarming Rate” Cross River REDD+ Communities Send SOS
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Latest Publications
Recommended Reviews of the Cross River State Forestry Law, 2010
The Policy Brief emphasizes the urgent need to review and update the Cross River...
BEHIND THE SCENE: State Attacks on Civic Freedoms in the Niger Delta
Since its return to democracy in 1999, Nigeria has seen a steady shr...
Addressing the Causes of Deforestation in Cross River State: Implications for Biodiversity, Livelihoods, Security and Climate Change
The level of forest degradation in Cross River State has reached unprecedented h...
OIL PRODUCING COMMUNITIES & NIGERIA’S PETROLEUM INDUSTRY ACT
The Petroleum Industry Act, passed in 2021, has been hailed as critical legislat...
LIVING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE: FLOODING IN THE NIGER DELTA
This photobook chronicles the hardships and challenges of Niger Delta communitie...
DIRTY EXIT: Why Oil Companies in Nigeria Are Selling Off Assets and How it Denies Niger Delta Communities of Justice
De This new report by We the People examines the true motive behind the divestme...
BUSINESS AS USUAL: REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE COMMITMENTS OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
Nigeria is on the frontlines of climate change impacts. The country is one of th...
A Review of the Rivers State CSO Registration Bill
The Rivers state House of Assembly is currently considering a CSO Registration B...
Vanishing Forests: Issues and Drivers of Deforestation in the Cross River Rainforest
This report is the outcome of an investigation into the drivers of deforestation...
NIGER DELTA MANIFESTO FOR SOCIO ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE
On June 23, 2022, frontline civil society organizations, socio-cultural g...
LEFT TO DIE: FORGOTTEN STREET CHILDREN OF CALABAR
This is an investigative Report by We the People into the drivers and circumstan...
HOW REDD+, CORPORATE LAND GRAB AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES ARE DRIVING THE DESTRUCTION OF NIGERIA’S REMAINING FOREST
BEYOND PROFITS: REVIEW OF HOST COMMUNITY PROVISIONS IN NIGERIA’S PETROLEUM INDUSTRY BILL 2020
Chapter 3 of the 2020 Petroleum Industry Bill makes provisions for the establish...
We the People’s Memo to the National Assembly on the 2020 PIB
In contribution to the ongoing national legislative conversation on the Petroleu...
Rising killings
At least 48 persons were murdered in extra judicial circumstances in Rivers stat...
NIGERIA NATURAL RESOURCE CHATER 2019 BENCHMARKING EXERCISE REPORT: PRECEPT 5-LOCAL IMPACTS & PRECEPTS 11-ROLE OF EXTRACTIVE COMPANIES
The Natural Resource Charter (NRC) is a set of principles intended for use by go...
Jaws of Death
Between November 2019 and February 2020, there was noted rise in cases of killin...
Gang Wars
In the 31-day period of August 2019, there were 10 documented incidents of atroc...
End of visit statement of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on her visit to Nigeria
Between the 19th of August and the 3rd of September 2019, Agnes Callamard, Unite...
Paradise of Pedophiles
In the last decade, there has been a tremendous increase in the number of child...
Death Toll
The month of July 2019 saw further reduction in cases of atrocious killings in R...
KILLING FIELDS
In the 30-day period of June 2019, there were 16 documented incidents of atrocit...
RIVERS of BLOOD
In the month of May 2019, there was a terrifying spike in the number of violent...
Routing Killings
In the month of April 2019, We the People tracked and documented 46 atrocious ki...
A Human Rights Guide to Understanding Education and Health Budgets in Nigeria
This Reports provides a guide to understanding the role of governments in realiz...
An Analysis of the 2018 Budget of Rivers State
This budget briefing focuses on estimates contained in the 2018 budget speech pr...
2017 Allocations to States and Local Governments in Nigeria
Every month, billions of naira is allocated to the 36 states & 774 local gov...
Beyond Oil
Have you ever wondered why states of the Niger Delta are poor despite huge crude...
Media
The Human Cost of Methane Emissions in Nigeria’s Niger Delta
Street Kids Short Documentarymobile Version
Gas Flaring Ken Henshaw
Living with oil
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