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…

‘’The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) enjoins all voters to go out and perform their constitutional duties by voting their preferred candidate. As we hope that INEC will conduct a free and fair election today Saturday 28th March, 2015, we affirm that the political parties, their wards and different actors involved must stop this wanton display of violence at polling booths, and rather embrace peace in support of the work of the commission,’’ . ‘CEHRD calls on politicians to abide by the Wednesday, 14 January 2015 Abuja Peace Accord where 14 political parties including the APC and…

‘’The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) condemns in strong term the widespread electoral violence- attacks and reprisal attacks, inflammatory statements in Nigeria ahead of the February general elections (of recent are the two pre-election violence where campaign Vehicles, Buildings and valuable properties worth millions of naira, belonging to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) were damaged in Jos and Port-Harcourt respectively). We vehemently condemn this politics of violence and calumny as it can only portend danger in the coming weeks. As we hope that INEC will conduct a free and fair election…