Pollution

Pollution

Nigeria shuts battery recycling plants after media reports reveal community poisoning

Plu Team -
Nigeria has shut multiple battery recycling plants in Ogun State after media investigations uncovered...
Pollution

Global talks to end scourge of plastic pollution collapses

Plu Team -
International negotiations to secure a landmark treaty to curb plastic pollution have collapsed, with...
Pollution

Regulator ties speedy Shell, ExxonMobil exit to Niger Delta cleanup

Plu Team -
Nigeria’s petroleum regulator has handed major oil and gas companies seeking to leave the...
Pollution

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé are biggest plastic waste polluters – global study

Glory Okah -
Fifty-six companies led by Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé are responsible for more than half...
Companies

Shell quits Nigeria onshore after 86 years

Oge Udegbunam -
Shell said on Tuesday that it has agreed to sell its Nigerian unit Shell...
Pollution

Win for Niger Delta communities as UK court allows case against Shell

Olawale Afolabi -
A UK high court has ruled that over 13,000 Nigerian fishermen can bring claims...
Pollution

Oil spill at Shell facility fouls Bayelsa community

Saviour Imukudo -
Residents of Peremabiri community in Bayelsa state's Southern Ijaw local government area say an...
Pollution

Bayelsa crude oil poisoning report brings little or no hope

Ini Ekott -
Earlier this month, a fisherman reported oil leaking from an old wellhead at Okpoama,...
Pollution

Shell, Eni blamed as high levels of toxins found in humans, fish, crabs in Bayelsa

Plu Team -
By Ashoka Mukpo Oil and gas companies, led by Shell, Eni, Chevron, Total and ExxonMobil,...
Environment

Nigeria gas flaring cut world’s biggest in 2022

Ini Ekott -
Nigeria’s significantly low oil production in 2022 strained government revenue, affected the value of...
Environment

‘Toxic legacy’ in Akwa Ibom as ExxonMobil plans exit

Ini Ekott -
As oil giant ExxonMobil prepares to sell its onshore and shallow-water assets in Nigeria...