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 […]