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 […]
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 […]
OGONI CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN BANNER BY OGONI SOLIDARITY FORUM (OSF), SOCIAL ACTION AND OILWATCH AFRICA ON DISPLAY AT THE EVENT ON JANUARY 4, 2013, BORI-OGONI As the world marked January 4, the United Nation’s World Indigenous People’s Day, thousands of persons from divers walks of life including friends, Visitors Environmentalists, Rights Activists etc joined the […]
As the International Community gathered to mark the World Food Day last October 16, 2012, the future and destiny of the over 1.2 million Ogoni people hangs in the balance as food crops and fishes do not grow and breed in the air but on land and water which they don’t have any more.
The clearing of more than 200,000 people who live on the waterfronts of Port Harcourt will wreck businesses and lives Having to stand by and watch helplessly as bulldozers destroy home and possessions is probably one of the hardest things any person could endure. Yet that threat looms for more than 200,000 people who live […]
