Tuesday 11 June, 2019 The Centre For Environment, Human Rights And Development (CEHRD), a non-governmental, non-profit making organization has nearly 20 years of working experience in remote rural and poor urban communities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria and other parts of Nigeria. On Wednesday, 12th June, marks officially another journey in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. The Niger Delta like other regions in Nigeria is still witnessing violence, destructions, environmental decay, hunger, human rights abuses, poverty and others in spite of the fact that it is the home to massive oil and gas wealth. From 1999, the beginning of the…

The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) joined other Civil Society Organizations and the media to condemn in its entirety the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment meted on Mr. Kofi Bartels, a broadcast journalist with the Nigerian Info on June 4, 2019 by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad department of the Nigerian Police. His offence was an attempt to rescue an innocent victim- a mere boy whose mother sells ‘akara’ for a living. As a journalist, he had thought that taking a photo of the plate number of the car of heinous officers who were brutalizing the little boy…

2019 Environment Day Tagged “Air Pollution” Commemoration Press Release The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) joins the world to mark the 2019 World Environment Day Tagged “Air Pollution”. “We can’t stop breathing but we can do something about the quality of air we breathe”. The 2019 World Environment Day celebration which focuses on ‘greening the blue’ could not have come at a better time given the increasing use of fossil fuels globally which alters air quality with a measure of biological, chemical or physical pollutants. chemical, biological or physical pollutants. Environmental degradation is a major issue, which…

As the world marks the 2017 Environment Day tagged “Connect People to Nature”, it behoves on Nigerians to appreciate nature’s beauty and importance to human existence and find ways to foster biodiversity protection. Nature’s bounties in Nigeria are in a sorry state due to unregulated human activities. We are surrounded by multitude of environmental problems ranging from noise pollution, invasive species, indiscriminate logging and waste disposal, oil spills, deforestation, desertification, poaching in reserved areas, air pollution particularly black carbon (soot), hunting of endangered wildlife, overfishing, plastic pollution among other environmental challenges. Undoubtedly, these experiences will make connecting the Nigerian people…