Oilwatch International

Resisting the negative impacts of fossil fuel industry on peoples & their environment.

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Climate Crisis: Nnimmo Bassey urges Edo to protect forests, embrace clean energy
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Fossil fuel expansion driven by greed and lack of care for people and planet.
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'Oil companies must clean Niger Delta before phase-out'

On gas flaring, both oil companies and the Nigerian government were accused of sustaining an environmental crime despite decades of court rulings against the practice. https://t.co/kXqyH59g6S

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People Power for Climate Justice https://t.co/dxsda56PNR via @YouTube
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EtiUwem: A Core Alternative🕸️
At a recent assembly of The Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) held in Bandung, Indonesia, we captured brief thoughts on the good life — a key alternative to the system wracked by the polycrisis.
Watch these practitioners speak about what constitutes the good life .
Here’s the video 👉🏽 https://t.co/3axNXklF2t via @YouTube

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HOMEF TV News
Get updated on environmental matters
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The world needs an urgent phase out of fossil fuels, not digging in and fighting over them. This is the lesson straight from the Strait of Hormuz.

Read my post 👉🏽 https://t.co/YhXyGRgwFn

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War is indeed hell for people and the earth. Read this timely piece by Prof Richard Steiner

https://t.co/0eAFgug4Uh

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The good life is life without ugliness. Watch this conversation I had with Alieu Bah - an activist beyond borders.
https://t.co/N6NNzz9oPf via @YouTube

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New gas flare stacks rising up right inside communities in the Niger Delta.
This one at Ikot Ebekpo, Onna LGA.
The people call it Community Burning.
That’s true. The heat, vibrations, noise, pollution. No safe environment. No right to life!
#StopGasFlaring

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Oil spills from abandoned wells ravage Ogoniland amidst plans to resume production https://t.co/XtUFhQXtCe

“Since this spill started, we can no longer farm or fish,” he said. “Before now, we relied on our stream for drinking water and cooking. But now oil is flowing into our water. We no longer fetch from it. We buy sachet water to survive.”

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Protests in Nigeria over demolition of Makoko — the ‘Venice of Africa’ https://t.co/KK2XtmNhJc

— Days of misery, rage and indignities

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Anchor Elizabeth Musa hosts Nnimmo Bassey (Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation) to dismantle the hype surrounding Nigeria's entry into the $3 Billion Carbon Market.

Bassey argues that carbon trading is a form of "Carbon Colonialism" and "Carbon Slavery," providing a license for polluters to continue their habits while dispossessing local Nigerian communities of their land.

https://t.co/dCKH6hYBCj

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“Shame on Lagos”: Nnimmo Bassey, Rights Groups Demand End to Makoko Demolitions https://t.co/0ixfmcMBKm

Demolishing communities is never a solution. Government is meant to protect and serve the people, not render them homeless.
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Makoko: A demolition of lives and a massive propagation of misery. Hear my reaction on visiting the scene of the horrendous forced eviction, disposition and displacement.
https://t.co/6PrjuRFPwV via @YouTube

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Dr. Nnimmo Bassey Visits, Speaks on #Makoko Demolition
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Eminent human and environmental rights activist, Dr. Nnimmo Bassey
@nnimmob speaks on the ongoing illegal demolition of Makoko community by the Lagos State Government, @lagosstategovt during his visit to the community on January 14.

The brutal invasion, without dueqq process, of the popular fishing community known for its traditional architecture and cultural resilience, has also resulted in the deaths of several people including babies and an aged woman owing to reported inhalation of teargas fired by security personnel into the community in the course of the demolition. A Makoko youth leader, Oluwatobi Aide was also arrested by the police on the government's order and released only last night (January 14) after three days in police detention.

Dr. Bassey spoke while taking a tour of the community where about half of the water front houses have been demolished by the state's task force with many people's properties still trapped as they was no formal notice. He was accompanied by several journalists, CSO members and community youths and leaders, all in a large boat.

Earlier in the day, at the Makoko community centre of CEE-HOPE Nigeria, he held a press conference and community consultation where evicted members (including a couple who lost their five day old child from alleged inhalation of teargas fired by the demolition squad), press crews, activists and other were present.

The leading human and environmental advocate and ED of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) also made an earlier press statement on the forced eviction which has displaced tens of thousands of residents as follows:

“We view these latest attacks on vulnerable populations and the urban poor as the most violent manifestations of Lagos State government’s contempt for those it views as human scrap to be cleared for elite profit and at the pleasure of land speculators and the rich. The thuggish arrest of community members and forced displacement of families who have always known Makoko as home underscores the helplessness of the struggling people in the country. We see this assault as comparable to what Nigerians are suffering at the hands of bandits in some parts of the nation.

This state campaign of land-grabbing and displacement is repugnant and must be halted.”

-- Dr. Nnimmo Bassey, eminent human and environmental rights activist, ED Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF).

January 2026.

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EtiUwem. The good life. Join me on this journey of life.
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“This recognition is an honour and a shield!”
- Alsanosi Adam of Emergency Response Rooms, Sudan, receiving the Right Livelihood Award 2025
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“AI must not divide us with outrage
It must connect us… Let’s free the future together”
— Audrey Tang, co-recipient of the 2025 @rightlivelihood Award

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It was an incredible two days,this session marks the end of the 2025 session. From our Ikike desk, we say a big thank you to our amazing speakers, tireless volunteers, supportive partners, and every single attendee who brought their passion to make a difference. @NnimmoB