"Groups sue biosafety agency, ministers over permit to Monsanto for GMO cotton", 18 Sept 2017

Seventeen civil society groups...drew a battle line with the National Biosafety Management Agency (NABMA) for granting a multi-national company, Monsanto Agricultural Nigeria Limited permit to release and place in the market genetically modified for insect (pest) resistance cotton and maize in the country. The defendants in the suit are National Biosafety Management Agency, Ministers of Environment, Monsanto Agricultural Nigeria Limited, National Biotechnology Development Agency...An environmentalist, Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation, in an affidavit in support of the originating summon said, “that the 1st and 2nd Defendants did not take into consideration public views as no public hearing to seek the views of the public on the applications was ever organized. Neither did they take into consideration...The prevailing health and environmental concerns around GMOs even in the Western Countries especially as an international tribunal in the Hague recently found that the activities of the 3rd defendant causes harm to the environment and opined criminalising such activities as “Ecocide”. “That if the reliefs are not granted the activities of the 3rd Defendant & 4th Defendant as per the approvals would jeopardise our environment. It would also be a missed opportunity to check administrative rascality and constant disregard for public interest and due process.”