#SaveShikira: Impact of Follow The Money
In 2015, in collaboration with Global Rights Nigeria we amplified #SaveShikira using testimonies during our outreach from rural Shikira in Rafi Local government area in Niger state via various social/traditional…
Environment ministry, eight months after
By Greg Odogwu I am happy to announce to my esteemed readers that the remediation of the lead-polluted Shikira, in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State has been commenced…
HOPE RESTORED AS REMEDIATION BEGINS IN SHIKIRA!
We are extremely excited to announce that the Federal Government has finally bowed to public pressure and commenced the clean-up of Shikira, a small rural mining community situated in Rafi…
SHIKIRA COMMUNITY, WHEN WILL REMEDIATION BEGIN?
Over 300 children living with high lead level in their blood and needs urgent medical treatments We are highly shocked over the Federal Government inability to announce a specific date…
‘It is our collective responsibility to accelerate the implementation of SDGs’ – Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed
Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, who has been one of the major influencers of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) launched late last year in New Yok has reiterated her stance on…
Senate urges FG to approve funds for #SaveShikira
The Senate on Thursday, June 2, urged the federal government to urgently approve and release the needed intervention funds from the ecological funds office for urgent remediation to help save…
[Press Release] Time is Running Out For Sick Children in Shikira as Stakeholders Set July Deadline
Over one year after lead disaster that killed little children, nothing has been done to save other living as Connected Development warns that time is running out to solve the…
HOW FUNDS IS BEING SPENT TO PROVIDE TREATMENT FOR LEAD POISONED CHILDREN IN SHIKIRA, NIGER STATE
Follow The Money to provide hundreds of children access to health in Shikira #SaveShikira The Story of #SaveShikira In March 2015 public health officials learned that many children had become…