Land & Environment

July 21, 2011

Press Statement

RE: REVOCATION OF RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY NOTICE IN RESPECT OF LAND REQUIRED FOR THE SERVICES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA FOR PROPOSED NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT PARCELS A AND B AT NYOKURU AND BEERI COMMUNITIES

The recent approval of Zimbabwean diamonds mined from the US$800 billion Marange fields, by the Kimberley Process (KP) chair, the DRC's Mathieu Yamba Lapfa Lambang, has prompted a global 'human rights' outcry with KP members such as Canada, the EU[1], and US claiming there was 'no consensus'.

Many Western governments have special programmes through which they invite African journalists to go to Western countries to observe how ‘a free press works’, so that they can return home and run a ‘free press’ there.