LOOKING FORWARD BUT WALKING BACKWARD; OGONIS CELEBRATE 31ST OGONI DAY!

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 […]

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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.

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:

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Fresh Reasons for Urgent Clean- Up of Ogoni and Conduct of immediate health audit on Citizens: A Release by Ogoni Solidarity Forum-Nigeria

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 […]

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Seizure of Ken Saro-Wiwa Memorial Bus

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 […]

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Again, Ogoniland slides to the brink

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 […]

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