Continued pollution in Niger Delta worries stakeholders - Businessday NG

L-R: Ijeoma Tubosia (secretary, NUJ Rivers State), Opaka Dokubo, (National NUJ vice president), Amaechi Okonkwo (chairman, Correspondents Chapel), and Nnimmo Bassey of Health of Mother Earth Foundation

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Stakeholders in the environment ecosystem have called for the urgent cleanup of Niger Delta region, emphasising that pollution has fueled crisis and loss of livelihoods in communities of the region.

They held out the media as the last hope for remedying the oil region because, as they stated, nobody cares about the environment of the Niger Delta. They said the media have the duty to continually report the issues of the Niger Delta environment so as to draw local and international attention to the plights of communities of the region.

The stakeholders made the submissions at the opening ceremony of the Correspondents’ Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), with theme: “The Imperatives of Comprehensive Clean-Up of the Niger Delta Environment: Role of the Media”, with support from Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited, Nigeria LNG and Kebetkeche Women Development Centre, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Monday.