Ecology-focused Civil Society Organizations have raised an alarm over the presence of licensed miners inside the Cross River State National Park, describing ...

The National Park in Oban, Cross River state is threatened with extinction following the license issued to two mining firms by the Federal Government to operate in the restricted...

Some concerned stakeholders have faulted the existing systems for administering flood-related humanitarian reliefs by the federal and state governments, insisting that “it is prone to corruption.”

Stakeholders on environment have decried the alarming rate of deforestation in Cross River state through illegal logging, saying the state government and other stakeholders must rise to the occasion.

Environmentalists from the Niger Delta region have called for conscious action from the federal government, multinationals and civil society organisations in addressing challenges to climate change on the region.

Stakeholders at a one-day conference have called on the Cross River State governor, Prince Bassey Otu, to disband the newly constituted task force on illegal logging in the state. The forum made up of community persons, traditional rulers, civil society organizations, representatives of MDAs, paramilitary agencies, and the academia, met in Calabar, the Cross River State…

A coalition of stakeholders in Cross River state has faulted the immediate past governor of the state, Prof Ben Ayade for failing to control the forests or sustain the status quo that his predecessors had instituted. The stakeholders stated this when they converged in Calabar, the Cross River capital for a multi-stakeholder conference on deforestation...

Stakeholders in forest conservation in Cross River State have faulted the recently constituted committee by the state governor, Senator Bassey Otu. The conference, which was the second in the series, was organised by a civil society organisation, We the People, spearheaded by renowned conservationist, Ken Henshaw, in partnership with...

Environmental experts and community leaders have urged Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River State to immediately disband the anti-deforestation taskforce he appointed about a week ago.

In the eight years that Prof Benedict Ayade has governed, Cross River State has lost a minimum of $200million from the  United Nations Reducing  Emissions from Deforestation  and Forest Degradation programme.

Concerned about the increasing degradation of the Cross River State rain and mangrove forest, a group of environmentalists have urged the governor-elect, Senator Bassey Otu to end the wave of deforestation.

A coalition of environment and ecology-focused civil society organizations under the aegis of ‘WE THE PEOPLE’ in Cross River State have called on the state’s incoming governor, Senator Bassey Edet Otu, to read the riot act to those destroying forests in the state.

Concerned about the increasing degradation of the Cross River State rain and mangrove forest, a group of environmentalists have urged the governor-elect, Senator Bassey Otu to end the wave of deforestation.

A collective of environment and ecology- focused Civil Society Organizations in Cross River State have written an open letter to the incoming Governor of Cross River, Sen. Bassey Otu to go after illegal loggers and destroyers of the State’s forest.

A group of environmentalists operating under the aegis of “WE THE PEOPLE” has charged  the Cross River State governor-elect Senator Bassey Edet Otu not to hesitate to fix the escalating threat of deforestation once Inaugurated into office as state chief executive.

Loss and Damage is a climate change response framework adopted during COP27 in Egypt, which recognizes people and communities that have suffered the effect of climate change such as desertification, flooding, loss of livelihoods, heatwave, wildfires, amongst others, due to no fault of theirs.

A non-government al organisation, We the People, made the allegation at a press conference in Uyo, Akwa Ibom. Its Executive Director, Mr Ken Henshaw, claimed a recent international court judgement which ordered Shell Petroleum...

The oil and gas production in Nigeria is being severely impacted by the Western ESG strategies that are forcing IOCs to reconsider their upstream and downstream operations worldwide, resulting in major reshuffling and divestments of assets. Nigeria, one of OPEC's leading oil producers, has...

A Civil Society Organisation, ‘We the people’, has demanded that the Federal government of Nigeria to put in place a framework and a guide on how multi-national oil companies would disengage from areas where they have operated in the...

Oil companies touting divestment have been accused of abdicating their responsibilities in the Niger Delta after several years of poisoning the people and the environment through oil spills and gas...

A Non-Governmental Organisation under the aegis of We the People has faulted the rush by oil companies to divest their onshore oil and gas assets, describing it as a ‘criminal flight’ to abdicate responsibility for several years of poisoning the environment and the...

A Non-Governmental Organisation that works for ecological justice in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, We the People, has offered explanation into the motive behind the recent wave of divestment by international oil companies...