Mkpoikana Udoma Port Harcourt — Members of the civil society have raised concerns over the involvement of politicians in awarding contracts for the Ogoni cleanup project, warning that such actions could derail efforts to restore the environment. Celestine Akpobari, Executive Director of the Peoples Advancement Centre, emphasized the need for the cleanup to be driven by professionals […]
As the Ogoni Indigenous Ethnic Nationality celebrate the 31st anniversary of the World Indigenous Peoples Day, commonly called “Ogoni Day”, I bring you greetings and congratulate our people for these 31 tortuous years of continuous oppression, political marginalization and economic strangulation. Although bleeding and battered, you have courageously move on and hoping to have a […]
Dear Members of the EITI International Board, Complaint: Shell’s status as a “Supporting Company” of the EITI is untenable, given its systematic failure to prevent and clean-up massive pollution across the Niger delta. As such, its membership of the EITI Association should be cancelled, and its representative should be removed from the EITI International Board:
Oil remains a curse for the people in the Niger Delta Before big oil moved into the Niger Delta region, it was the food basket of Nigeria, where the fishing and farming Indigenous people, like the Ogonis of Ogoniland in Rivers State, thrived. When companies like Royal Dutch Shell arrived in 1958, all was lost. “They […]
By Nicholas Ibekwe Lekol Bakpoh, a health worker at Biara, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, has lived in constant apprehension about the state of his health and those of his family members for several years. Things, however, took a turn for the worse in March when Bright, his 10-year-old son, woke up abruptly […]
While the Ogoni are still struggling to understand reasons for non implementation of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Report over four years after its release, more polluted sites not yet visited by Civil Society Organisations and environmental right activists, have been discovered in Ogoni. On his first visit to one of such community (B-Dere, abandoned […]
In what ways will the clean up positively impact on the Ogoni local economy? Ogoni is a predominately fishing and farming community; so, when oil activities destroy their land and rivers, it meant the economy of the people have been completely destroyed. It is money from fishing and farming that our people used in time […]
This statement is issued to call public attention to the seizure by the Nigerian Customs Service of a “Living Memorial” to Ken Saro-Wiwa donated by Platform – friends and colleagues in the United Kingdom – to the Ogoni people. The memorial is a sculpture of a bus made in remembrance of the struggles of Ken […]
Here is the latest on the campaign to pressurise Nigeria Customs release the Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 known as the Bus. Customs seized the Bus in 2015 and has refused to release it despite the huge efforts and directives described below. The guest blog is written by Celestine AkpoBari, National […]
