In the news today: Organized Labor Disown Cross River Labor Party, Chairman. Labor Party Chairman Alleges Destabilization Plan. Ex Guber Aspirant, Patrick Okomiso Dumps APC For Labor Party. NGO Provides Free Eye Health Services For Inmates In Calabar Prison. Northern Groups Tackle Osinbajo Over Planned Sale Of Calabar Power Plant, Four Others. HOMEF Boss, Nnimo
By Ekemini Simon, TheMail While Lafarge Africa PLC boasts of a humane environmental policy in her mining operations, this investigation by TheMail unravels the nexus between illegal and unhealthy practices by the company, the government’s gross regulatory failure, and untold hardship in Mfamosing, a solid mineral-rich community in Akamkpa, Cross River State. Idaraobong Udo a
By Taiwo Lawrence Adeyemi Cross River State has over 2,000,000 hectares of rainforest originally found in the State and perhaps the primary rainforest remaining was only 729,000 hectares. The rainforest has important biophysical properties which affect local, regional and global environment quality. Cross River State has a deforestation rate of two percent per annum, a
By Arinze Chijioke, International Policy Digest Arinze Chijioke traveled to Opuama, a community in Nigeria’s Delta State, to report on the impact of an oil spill that had devastated many local families. The time was 10 am in late March. Over 60 women, old and young, gathered outside the house of 90-year-old Julius Loboh, the