Tribute To Oronto Douglas
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” […]
Update: The Bus, its seizure and our story
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 […]
STOP THE BLAME GAME, CIVIL SOCIETY GROUP URGES SHELL ON OGONI CLEAN UP.
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 IN NIGERIA, VISITS OGONI AND RUMUEKPE
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 […]
ANOTHER OIL SPILL REPORTED IN OGONI TERRITORY, TIME TO IMPLEMENT UNEP REPORT?
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 […]
OGONI ENVIRONMENT: THE DEMAND FOR A STATE OF EMERGENCY.
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 […]
Ogonis demand Ken Saro-Wiwa University, trial of murderers of ‘Ogoni 9’
It was another season of remembrance for the Ogoni in Rivers State, and when they did, tributes, demands and protests reeled endlessly. They had assembled at Bori, the traditional headquarters of the nationality on Sunday, November 10 to remember the killing of some of their brightest sun by an expired Nigerian military junta. The “Ogoni […]