Nigeria

Articles from the WRM Bulletin

2021

• Resistance Against Industrial Oil Palm Plantations in West and Central Africa

2020

• The Enduring Legacy of a Little-Known World Bank Project to Secure African Plantations for European Billionaires

2018

• Song: Plantations are not Forests!

• Nigeria: Okomu’s oil palm plantations bring misery for women living in their vicinity

• Certification promotes land concentration, violence and destruction

2017

• SOCFIN’s plantations in Africa: many places of violence and destruction

2016

• Forests to the highest bidder in Nigeria: how REDD proves unable to stop deforestation

2015

• Nigeria: Tales of Grabland

2014

• Women & Plantations: Pain or Gain? The Nigerian Experience

• The expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa: A call for greater solidarity and action 

• Nigeria: Stop Corporate Land Bazaar in Edo State!

• Nigeria: social coalition demands amendment to PIB as a way of restoring transparency and accountability in the petroleum sector

• Nigeria: Okomu Oil Palm Company – destroying communities for oil palm expansion

• Nigeria – RSPO legal opinion ignores core of the complaint against Wilmar International subsidiary Biase Plantation Limited

2013

• The unequal and perverse exchange between Nigeria and colonialist corporate powers: from fossil fuels to industrial oil palm plantations and REDD

• OIL – Land grab for oil: The crude reality of oil drilling in the Niger Delta

• Nigeria: Wilmar, RRDC, and the Calaro/Ibiae Oil Palm Estates

• Nigeria: Environmentalist threatened for his denounces against Wilmar’s oil palm plantations

• Nigeria: Dutch court condemns Shell – but more justice is needed!

• Nigera: A unique example of community based forest management at the Ekuri community

2012

• Oil and Human Rights

2011

• Mangrove destruction by oil in Niger Delta

2010

• Oil palm in Nigeria: shifting from smallholders and women to mass production

• Nigerian Women Bear the Curse of Oil

• Nigeria: Women at forefront of struggle against oil corporations

2009

• Video: Women raise their voices against tree plantations

• Nigeria: Tyres at the expense of people’s livelihoods

• Nigeria: The long arm of justice is finally catching up on Shell

• Nigeria: Oil-in-soil and much more

• Nigeria: Michelin’s rubber plantations destroyed women’s livelihoods

2008

• Nigeria: Gas flaring – major contributor to climate change and human rights abuses

2002

• Nigeria: Godforsaken by oil

2001

• Nigeria: People protect mangroves against shrimp farming

• Nigeria: Palm oil deficit in a traditional palm oil producing country

• Gold Medal to Shell: A mockery to Nigeria’s peoples

2000

• Nigeria: Shell’s choice between profits and principles

• Nigeria: Shell sets forests on fire

• Nigeria: Poverty, oil pipelines and death

• Nigeria: Malaysian corporation to invest in palm oil production

• Nigeria: At whose expense is oil drilled in the Niger Delta?

• Environmental racism in Nigeria

1999

• Oil and violence in Nigeria

• Nigeria: victory of local communities over Texaco

• Nigeria: threatened mangroves

• Nigeria: the struggle continues

• Nigeria: Cross River’s forests need your help

• Human rights abuses in Nigeria continue

• A positive change in oil activities in Nigeria?

1998

• Ogoni released in Nigeria: a light of hope

• Nigeria: WRM “unwittingly subversive”

• Nigeria: Shell sets forest ablaze

• Nigeria: NGO nominated for the Sophie Prize

1997

• Nigerian Diplomacy

• Nigeria: Nnimmo Bassey imprisoned and released

Books and Briefings

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  Recueil de recettes nutritives, médicinales, artisanales des palmiers à huile traditionnels

  Posted on November 27, 2018

  Only available in French.

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  REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies

  Posted on December 3, 2014

  REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies presents summaries of reports from 24 REDD projects or programmes with a common characteristic: they all show a number of structural characteristics that undermine forest...

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  Oil palm and rubber plantations in Western and Central Africa: An Overview

  Posted on December 15, 2008

  Oil palm and rubber plantations are very similar in many respects, but there is something that clearly differentiates them: oil palm is a native species in many West African countries –and part of the culture of local peoples- while...

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News

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  Calabar Declaration

  Posted on November 18, 2013

     Also available in French We, members of communities affected by industrial monoculture oil palm plantations, including peasant movements, as well as other civil society organizations from Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia,...

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Other Relevant Information

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  Please take action: Stop the destruction of the Ekuri people’s ancestral rainforest in Nigeria

  Posted on February 29, 2016

  Dear friends, We need your urgent support. The Ekuri People’s ancestral land in Nigeria is under threat. The people of Ekuri live in Cross River State in the southeast corner of Nigeria almost on the border with Cameroon, deep in the...

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  Exploitation and Empty Promises. Wilmar’s Nigerian land grab

  Posted on July 9, 2015

  By Friends of the Earth US, Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria. Wilmar International1 is one of the world’s largest palm oil plantation owners, traders, and processing companies. Wilmar is a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable...

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  Oil Palm in Africa – Interactive Map

  Posted on August 30, 2013

  We have produced an interactive map that sumarizes some of the information gathered in the  publication “Oil palm in Africa: past, present and future scenarios“. The publication contains a general introduction to the issue of oil...

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Videos

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  Video: Violence and sexual abuse against women in oil palm plantations MUST END

  Posted on November 24, 2020

  The video “NO to violence against women and girls living in and around oil palm plantations” denounces the violence against women in West and Central Africa whose lands have been invaded by industrial oil palm plantations.

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  Song: Plantations are not Forests!

  Posted on September 26, 2018

  A song by By Ajele Sunday, Nigerian artist. His community suffer land grabbing from oil palm companies. Listen to the song.

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  Oil Palm in Africa. Voices from the communities

  Posted on September 13, 2013

  Industrial oil palm plantations are rapidly expanding, not only in Liberia. In many African countries expansion projects are happening and plans are announced. Everywhere they go, the companies promise jobs and development. Produced by the...

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  Women raise their voices against tree plantations. Testimonies from Brazil, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea

  Posted on March 11, 2009

  By the World Rainforest Movement and Forest and Biodiversity Program of Friends of the Earth International Screenplay: Flavio Pazos Script: WRM International Secretariat Team Voices: Cecilia Carrère, Ana Filippini, Raquel Nuñez, Teresa...

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