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Njemanze demolitions: Social and economic effects - Mon, 12 Jul 2010
Sweetcrude: Vanguard's monthly review of the Nigerian Energy Industry - Mon, 12 Jul 2010
Comprehensive Niger Delta Environmental Survey released - Thu, 8 Jul 2010
Revenue Watch: Nigeria Considers creating new Sovereign Wealth Fund to promote sustainavble development - Thu, 8 Jul 2010
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child concluding observations - Thu, 17 Jun 2010
Official reports, declarations, constitutions and Legislation relating to the Niger Delta - Wed, 14 Apr 2010
Fuelling Discord: Oil and Conflict in Three Niger Delta Communities - Fri, 19 Feb 2010
Citizens Report on State and Local Government Budgets in the Niger Delta - Mon, 18 Jan 2010
Port Harcourt Waterfront Urban Regeneration - Scoping Study - Thu, 7 Jan 2010
killing at will - unlawful killings by the police in nigeria - Tue, 15 Dec 2009
Nigeria’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: Just a Glorious Audit? - Thu, 10 Dec 2009
Report of The Technical Committee on the Niger Delta - Wed, 7 Oct 2009
Alternatives to demolitions - Abonnema Wharf Community - Fri, 4 Sep 2009
Demolition of Njemanze Waterfront - Factsheet from SDN Partners SERAC - Fri, 4 Sep 2009
Thirst for African Oil: Asian National Oil Companies in Nigeria and Angola - Wed, 2 Sep 2009
UN Habitat: Evictions and Demolitions in Port Harcourt - Tue, 1 Sep 2009
Amnesty International: Petroleum, pollution and poverty in the Niger Delta - Fri, 3 Jul 2009
Feature: Up in Smoke - Nigeria's continued reliance on gas flaring - Thu, 9 Apr 2009
Minority Rights Echoes at Nigeria's United Nations Review - Mon, 16 Mar 2009
Niger Delta's Civil Society Organisations recommendations on the human rights situation in Nigeria - Mon, 16 Mar 2009
UN Habitat: Evictions and Demolitions in Port Harcourt
Over the past months, the UN-HABITAT Headquarters in Nairobi, the Habitat Programme Support Office (HAPSO) in Abuja, Nigeria, and the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions to the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT (AGFE), have received information from a range of different sources, including from several of UN-HABITAT’s NGO partners, on ongoing and planned demolition of housing and commercially-used structures in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
According to the information received, since June 2008 the Rivers State Government has carried out numerous demolitions of residential and commercially-used structures throughout the city. These demolitions were and are being undertaken as part of an ambitious urban renewal programme. The driving force behind the recent demolitions in a particular location appears to be a large entertainment project, the Silverbird Showtime, that is being implemented under a public-private partnership agreement between the Government and Silverbird Group Ltd., for which the Government committed itself to clearing the surrounding land areas in a radius of 2 km.
>> Download the full UN Habitat report on forced evictions and demolitions in Port Harcourt here
