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 […]
Human rights activists from the Ogoni ethnic nationality in Rivers State have sworn not to relent in resisting the move by the state government to acquire land in the area for banana plantation. The group under the aegis of Ogoni Civil Society Platform (OCSP), made its stand known in Port Harcourt last week, while reacting […]
A preliminary approval granted to an oil company to resume crude oil production in environmentally ruined Ogoniland, is threatening to tear apart the bond that tie the people together. Activists, who resisted the despoliation of Ogoni environment by multinationals, namely Shell, Total and Agip in the 1990s, and whose agitation were criminalised by the Nigerian […]
THE YOUNG OGONI DIDN’T NEED TO SEE ORONTO DOUGLAS, YET HE INSPIRED US! – A TRIBUTE BY CELESTINE AKPOBARI As a young Ogoni in the 90s and at the peak of the State and sHELL’s persecution of Ogoni people and their environment, it was that name “ORONTO” that we started hearing as the new “driver” […]
Following last week’s surprise announcement by Shell’s new CEO, Ben Van Beurden that the $1billion dollar take off fund for Ogoni clean up was waiting in a dedicated account, Social Action and other British and Nigeria NGOs have demanded that Shell stop playing games with the pains and misery of Ogoni people who were dying […]
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues- Rita Izakand her team arrived Port Harcourt the Rivers State capital for a one-day working tour to Rumuekpe and communities in Ogoni where the marginalized and oppressed people are already grappling with the negative effects of a devastated environment and unfavorable state policies that does not protect minority […]
Almost a month after Bodo, an Ogoni fishing community rejected a 7.5 billion Naira offer for massive spills which sHELL accepted liability for, Bunu, another Ogoni farming community in Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State was on Wednesday 9 October 2013 thrown into a sad mood as one of sHELL’s oil facility located very […]
As environmental right groups the world over sadly draw attention to the pains, misery and loss of livelihood in Ogoniland resulting from decades of reckless oil exploitation and massive pollution of their environment by Shell, Social Action working with Ogoni Solidarity Forum (OSF), Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and other community groups has called […]
