The documentary spotlights the illegal operation of a tyre "recycling" company, Yoyo Recycling, located in the Orimerunmu community in the Ibafo area, a border town between Ogun State and Lagos State, Nigeria.
The short video documentary reports the tale of the community and also captures the thousands of used tyres transported into the production site located in a residential community and how the tyres are openly set ablaze to extract black oil, copper wire and black powder, causing air pollution and threatening the lives over 5000 people living in the community. The prolonged activity of this company has caused members of the community to record a high rate of health conditions like respiratory diseases, typhoid and migraine among children and adults.
After documenting these activities and putting the assets together, I thought it best to gather together stakeholders comprising of Government representatives, CSOs, NGOs and development practitioners virtually for the exhibition of the project I titled Black Oxygen.
The keynote address at the virtual event was delivered by Nnimmo Bassey, the Founder, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, one of Nigeria’s foremost environmental activists, alongside with Taremwa Diana, the African Regional Coordinator of Climate Tracker. Presentation was made during a short panel discussion by photo-journalists Hammond Oluwole and Osaze Efe. Olumide Idowu and Jesse Manufor also be spoke on the panel, which was moderated by Seyifunmi Adebote, the host of the Climate Talk Podcast.
The virtual exhibition and launch of the project Black Oxygen held via zoom on Friday, April 9, 2021,
Two weeks after the documentary, the Federal Government through the Ministry of Environment visited the community to carry out an assessment and thereafter shut down the organisation.





