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FEC Approves N6bn For Water Projects In Ogoniland

'Dotun Akintomide — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 04:44:13 +0000

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N6.04 billion for the provision of potable water in the four local government areas of Ogoniland. Minister of the Environment, Muhammad Mahmoud, who disclosed to State House correspondents at the end of the Council meeting on Wednesday, said the affected local government areas included Gokana, Khana, Eleme and […]

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Ogoni: Search For Justice Continues As Environmentalists Eulogise Ken Saro-Wiwa, 8 Others

'Dotun Akintomide — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 07:26:55 +0000

By Shakirudeen Bankole Environmental rights’ activists have gathered in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to pay tributes to one of their own, the Niger Delta pen advocate, Ken Saro-Wiwa, twenty five years after his gruesome death alongside eight other Ogoni leaders. The 25th Memorial Environmental Summit, held at the Visa Karena Hotel, Thursday, once again revisited […]

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Group Asks Nigerian Govt To Exonerate Ken Saro-Wiwa, 8 Ogoni Activists Of Murder Charges 25 Years After Brutal Execution

'dotun Akintomide — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:11:10 +0000

25 years after their gruesome execution, a group, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to exonerate Ken Saro-Wiwa and the eight Ogoni activists killed in 1995 by the Nigerian state of all the murder charges brought against them. The group who noted that the nine Ogoni environmental […]

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Ogoni Clean-up: NNPC Partners JV, Disburse $360m

Hamilton Nwosa — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:51:00 +0000

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its Joint Venture Partners have disbursed 360 million dollars toward the Ogoniland Clean-Up project as recommended by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The Joint Venture (JV) Partners are Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Total Exploration and Production of Nigeria (TEPNG) and Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC). The […]

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Anger In Ogoniland Over Oil Spill Clean-Up Delay

Hamilton Nwosa — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 05:51:02 +0000

Under a leaden sky in oil-rich southern Nigeria, young men hang around with nothing to do, covering their noses from the noxious fumes of the polluted swamp. The sight in Bodo, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) south-east of Port Harcourt, is repeated in communities elsewhere in the maze of creeks that criss-cross Ogoniland. One year […]

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