Location: Ebocha Community in Ogba/Egema/Ndoni Local Government Area Rivers state.
Date of visit: 22 August, 2010

INTRODUCTION
Ebocha Community in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State is home to Agip’s  Ebocha, Obrikom  and Obiafu Oil and Gas Facility. The people of Ebocha are from the Ogba speaking tribe in Onelga. The community is rich in natural gas a

Location: Ikarama Community at Adibawa Delivery Line, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
Date of visit: 15 and 18 August, 2010

INTRODUCTION
At exactly 2:30 pm on Sunday August 15, 2010, ERA/FoEN’s attention was drawn to another oil spill at Ikarama Community .Natives called ERA/FoEN monitor on phone to report that crude oil was spewing close to the community at the Adibawa delivery li

Umuorie Isimiri Community of Ukwa West LGA of Abia State
DATE OF VISIT: 3 August 2010

Highlights
•    Shell yet to comply with court order asking it to pay compensation to community
•    Community people poisoned from Shell-constructed water borehole

INTRODUCTION
Umuorie Isimiri Community is located in Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia S

Bodo Community, Gokana LGA, Rivers State, Nigeria.
Date of visit: 20 July 2010

INTRODUCTION
Bodo community is located in Gokana Local Govt Area of Rivers State and has an estimated population of 69,000 people, making it  the largest indigenous community in the state. ‘Bodo City’ as it fondly called is host to Shell’s 24 and 28 inch Trans-Niger Pipeline.
The peo

Location:  Ikarama Community, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
GPS Coordinate…Elev: 14m, N 05®10.242’, E 006®26.648’
Date of visit: 27 July, 2010

INTRODUCTION:
ERA/FoEN received an alert on a gas leakage and oil spill along Agip’s pipeline from Ikarama Community, Bayelsa State on the 27 July, 2010. ERA field monitors subsequently visited the site where gas was notice

Location: Anka and Bukkuyum Local Government Areas, Zamfara State, Nigeria
Date: 17-18 June, 2010

HIGHLIGHTS
•    Lead poisoning still a threat in local communities
•    Communities water sources polluted
•    Lack of awareness on impacts of chemicals (especially lead) suspected to cause deaths  
•    Remediation plans by state government

ERA/FoEN's field monitor reports a serious leakage from an Agip Pipeline that was laid in the heart of Kalaba community, Bayelsa State, Nigeria this year. The noise from the leakage poses great fear of possible fire explosion to the people of the community.

Agip take action now!

Oruma [now called Yeba Ama] is an Ijaw community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. It is one of the communities upstream of the Kolo Creek. This community has facilities installed by Nigeria Agip Oil Company [Eni] and the Shell Petroleum Development Company [SPDC]. The pipelines of both companies run parallel to each other under the soil of this community, and at very close

Going directly from a UNDP organised policy dialogue on natural resource conflicts to the proposed Calabar-Umuahia-Ajaokuta gas pipeline project revealed the stark difference between policy and practice.   As always, local interests are often discounted in the face of such projects with global interest in gas production and supply. The issue of natural resource ownership and control and

Highlights
Violent clash between communities over land grabs

This is the third time the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria [ERA/FoEN] is documenting this matter of attempts by some persons to acquire land expense of land at Biseni. ERA first issued at alert in February, 2010 and followed up with an update in April, 2010. Earlier reports indicated the united