Ogoni: The Legacy of Ken Saro-Wiwa 25 Years L...

MOSOP's fight for justice came in response to Shell's operations in the Niger Delta, where it had devastated the region's environment while bringing no benefit to the indigenous people. On 4 January...

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In Remembrance, Commemoration and Celebration:...

First of all, the UNPO seeks to warmly congratulate the founding General Secretary of the UNPO, Michael van Walt van Praag, who in April this year was awarded with the royal distinction of Commander of...

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Ogoni: Clean-up and COVID-19

Below is an article published by The Guardian Nigeria Environmental experts have expressed worry that oil polluted Ogoniland is likely to be vulnerable to COVID-19 pandemic due to prolonged delay in the...

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Ogoni: MOSOP calls for social justice in Nig...

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has called for social justice in Nigeria as panacea to the increasing insecurity ravaging the country. Speaking during the 2019 June 12th Memorial...

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Ogoni: Environmental Justice and Resource Equity...

The article below was published by Africa Independent television Key among the concerns of the elder statesman is the passage of the petroleum industry bill and the clean up of the environment in the...

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Ogoni: Call for the Dissolution of HYPREP’s...

  Below is a press release issued by UNPO member the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP): The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has called for the...

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Ogoni: Dutch Court Assumes Jurisdiction in Case...

  Below is an article published by Sahara Reporters: The District Court of The Hague has issued an interim ruling in favour of wives of Ogoni leaders killed in 1995 during the military era of Sani...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Denounces Nigerian Government’s...

Article published by The Guardian The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) yesterday expressed dissatisfaction over what it termed ‘poor implementation’ of the cleanup in...

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Ogoni: 8 Killed During State Election Poll

The article below was published by The Independent:   The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has called for full investigations into the killing of at least eight persons in Ogoniland...

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Ogoni: Cleanup Exercise by Authorities Questioned...

The article below was published by The Guardian   The controversy surrounding Ogoni clean up exercise may not have abated as civil society groups are still questioning the process being adopted...

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Ogoni: MOSOP President Calls Shell’s Actions...

Article published by The Nigerian Voice President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Fegalo Nsuke,has described the conduct of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria,...

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Ogoni: Widow Testifies at Trial Against Shell...

Article from BBC The widow of a Nigerian activist suing oil giant Shell over the execution of her husband says his death left her "traumatised" and "poverty-stricken". Esther Kiobel is testifying in...

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Ogoni: Corruption Behind the HYPREP Organization...

The text below was shared by the MOSOP Ogoniland: The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has described the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) as an organization stinking...

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Ogoni: A Struggle Against Oppression and Fossil...

The article below was published by the Nigerian Voice: Ogoni, the people and the land represent an oppressed nationality, a people persecuted by their own government for seeking respect for their human...

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Ogoni: Federation of Youth Drags Company to Court...

The article below was published by PUNCH Ogoni youths, under the aegis of Ogoni Youths Federation, have dragged the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project and the Ministry of Environment to a Federal...

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Ogoni: Delta Cleanup Could Boost Nigeria’s Economy...

The article below was published by Daily Trust: The commencement of the Ogoniland oil spill cleanup till its conclusion will be a major boost to the oil and other sectors of the nation’s economy. Stakeholders...

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Ogoni: Ogoniland Clean-up--Nigeria's Biggest...

The article below was published by Ogoni News: Publicity Secretary of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Fegalo Nsuke, has said the Ogoni cleanup would end up as Nigeria's biggest...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Remains Committed to Ogoni Bill of...

The article below was originally published by The Nigerian Voice: The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has assured the people of Ogoniland that the demand for political rights to...

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Ogoni: Nigerian Government in Latest Pledge to...

This article is originally published by Punch Nigeria The Federal Government has concluded plans to commence the cleanup of Ogoni impacted communities on or before the end of last quarter of 2018. Minister...

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Ogoni: Reports of Sexual Harassment while New...

The article below was published by Ogoni News The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) wishes to express its disapproval of the Nigerian government's silence on the cases of three...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Denounces Failure of Nigeria in Mitigating...

The article below was published by DailyTrust: The president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) Legborsi Saro Pyagbara said so far the response to the issue of climate change...

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Ogoni: Locals Against Renewal of Oil Mining License...

  The article below was published by the Vanguard: Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, has expressed its opposition to the application by Shell Petroleum Development Company of...

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Ogoni : Clean-Up Procedure Criticised by MOSOP...

Article below originally published by Vanguard Nigeria Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, and Social Action, SA, have informed President Muhammadu Buhari that the clean-up of the devastated...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Reaffirms Willingness To Organise...

This article was originally published by The Guardian.   There are fears that the Ogoni area of Rivers State might be plunged into unrest over plans to resume crude oil production. Environmental...

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Ogoni: Timeline of the Ogoni Struggle

  19 March 2018 – MOSOP calls for international community to intervene after Amnesty International releases a report showing negligence of energy companies when extracting resources,...

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Ogoni: Death and Prison will not Remedy the Need...

The proclivity of the Nigerian state to deny and dehumanize the minority ethnic nationalities is again playing out in oil-rich Ogoniland, Rivers State. Following decades of environmental degradation occasioned...

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Ethiopia: Authorities Re-Arrest Recently Freed...

The original article was published by AP News: Ethiopian security forces have re-arrested a number of recently freed politicians and journalists as they gathered for a social event outside the capital,...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Calls for International Community...

Below article published by The Nigerian Voice The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) wishes to call on world leaders and all men of conscience to intervene in the situation in Ogoniland...

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Ogoni: Local Population Commemorates Death of...

The following video was uploaded by Channels Television Photo Courtesy of UNPO Secretariat

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Ogoni: Shell Continues to Cast Shadow Over Human...

The article below was published by newtelegraphonline.com : The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) yesterday vowed that the people of Ogoni would resist an alleged plot by Shell Petroleum...

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Business and Human Rights – The Curse of “Destructive...

Indeed, the positive contributions that the development of infrastructure has on a nation’s prosperity are in most cases undeniable. At the same time, the unethical and destructive consequences of...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Calls on Nigerian Government to Not...

  The press release below is published by  African Herald Express: The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) urges the Nigerian government to put a stop to the constant human...

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On Ogoni Day, UNPO Strongly Condemns Nigerian...

On 4 January 1993, some 300,000 Ogoni peacefully protested against Shell’s activities in the Niger Delta and the environmental destruction of Ogoniland. To this day, this marks the largest demonstration...

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Ogoni: Infant Mortality Increases as Niger Delta...

Below is a press release by The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP): The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has decried the high rate of infant mortality in Ogoniland....

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Ogoni: Still No Clean-Up of Polluted Area- Civil...

  The article below was published by African Independent Television    At a media briefing in Abuja, the independent service delivery monitoring group, ISDMG and the centre for peace...

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Ogoni: Dutch Court to Investigate Shell’s Complicity...

Below is an article published by The Guardian:   Women bring case against Shell in the Netherlands seeking damages and public apology for state executions carried out by military court in 1995. The...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Condemns Ogu Militant Attack on ...

  Below is an article published by The Nation: The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has condemned the invasion of farmlands in Norkpo-Ogoni in Tai Local Government Area of Rivers...

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Ogoni: Niger Delta Clean-up “Too Slow”, Says...

  The article below was published by The Nation:   The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has expressed concern over the clean-up  of Ogoniland, saying “it...

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Ogoni: Remembering Human Rights Hero Ken Saro...

  Below is an article published by Information Nigeria:   Over 20 years after the execution of the environmental crusader, Ken Saro Wiwa. His life and death were a service to the Nigerian...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Issues Warning as Government-Owned...

The article below was published by Ogoninews: When in 1993, the Ogoni people embarked on the journey to redefine their future with a historic march involving over 300,000 people, little did they know...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Warns Illegal Oil Bunkering May Lead...

The article below was published by The Guardian Nigeria: The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has urged the indigenes to guard against illegal bunkering in the area. MOSOP warned that...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Strongly Believes in Peaceful Solution...

Below is an article published by The Tide: The umbrella organisation of the Ogoni people, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), has vehemently condemned, in strong terms, threats...

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Ogoni: Traditional Rulers Pledge to Support MOSOP...

  Below is a press release published by Ogoni News:  The leading, apex socio-cultural organization of the Ogoni people, MOSOP and the traditional rulers of Ogoni have pledged commitment to...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Expresses Hope for Federal Government’s...

  Below is an article published by Vanguard: Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, has expressed hope that the Federal Government will implement its clean-up programme for Ogoni communities...

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Ogoni: Tribal King Wants to Sue Shell Over Niger...

  The following article was published by The Guardian: Kind Emere was in a London court last week for the case that he hopes will allow him to sue Shell in the UK for polluting his tribal land. His...

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UNPO Side-event to UN Minority Forum Highlights...

  In his opening remarks, Marino Busdachin, General Secretary of UNPO, shed a light on the fact that since the independence of East Timor, the UN has failed to advance the fulfilment of the right...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Denounces Extensive Delays of Ogoniland...

  The article below is courtesy of News 24: The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has slammed the delays in the implementation of the Ogoniland cleanup saying it was exacerbating...

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Ogoni: Activist Deplores Insufficient Indigenous...

Below is an article published by The News: Celestine Akpobari, A Globally Acclaimed Ogoni Environmental Rights Activist speaks exclusively to OKAFOR OFIEBOR in Port Harcourt, about planned implementation...

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Ogoni: Community Mourns Passing of Ken Saro-Wiwa...

Below is an article published by the BBC: The son of renowned Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed more than 20 years ago, has died in London. Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr, 47, passed...

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Ogoni: Youth Leadership Council Wants Indigenous...

  The article below was published in The Nation:   A coalition of Ogoni youth leaders has demanded the appointment of an indigenous project manager for the implementation of the United Nations...

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Ogoni: Explosion at Shell Petroleum Facility Causes...

The article below is courtesy of Sahara Reporters A trunk line carrying crude oil in the Gio community in the Ogoniland area of Rivers State became engulfed in dark plumes of smoke and flames on Monday...

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Ogoni: Nigerian Military Raids in Local Area Condemned...

The article below is courtesy of the Daily Post   The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) is appalled and vehemently condemns in the strongest terms, last Sunday's (18/9/2016)...

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Ogoni: Clean-up Programme Should Be Used to Create...

  Below is an article published by The Whistler:  Following the launch of the Ogoni clean-up exercise in the Niger Delta region, the Environmental Rights Action and Friends of the Earth, ERA/FOE,...

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Ogoni: Clean-up to be Monitored by New Coalition...

  The article below is published by All Africa Foremost environmental group - Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth (ERA/FoEN) has formed a coalition with other civil society organisations...

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Ogoni: Biography Explores Fascinating Life of...

  Below is an article published by The Washington Post: Twenty-one years after his death at the hands of Nigeria’s last military dictatorship, environmental and political activist Ken Saro-Wiwa’s...

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Ogoni: Delayed Clean-up of Niger Delta Region...

  Below is an article published by The Tide: A member of the [Nigerian] House of Representatives, Chief Fred Agbedi, has expressed disappointment that months after the much publicised ground-breaking...

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Ogoni: Nigerian Government Not Cleaning Land as...

  Photo courtesy of Today. Below is an article published by Today:  Mr. Fred Agbedi, a House of Representatives member representing Sagbama/Ekeremor Federal Constituency of Bayelsa State,...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Protests Against Plans for Further...

  Below is an article published by The Tide:  The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni people (MOSOP) has staged a peaceful protest in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, over alleged plan...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Condemns Violent Attacks that Left...

  This article was published by Leadership   MOSOP, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, the state capital yesterday by its publicity secretary, Fegalo Nsuke, also alleged that several...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Leader Calls for Peaceful Dialog...

  Below is an article published by Vanguard:  Bodo (Rivers) Mr Legborsi Pyagbara, the President of Movement for Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), has urged violent agitators in the Niger Delta...

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Ogoni: Council Condemns Abduction of Yeghe Community...

  Below is an article published by Vanguard Nigeria: Ogoni—Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers, COTRA, has condemned the abduction of the paramount ruler of Yeghe community in Ogoniland, HRH...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Claims Killings Are Attempt to Stall...

  Below if an article published by Today: The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) yesterday (11 May 2016) blamed the recent spate of killings in Ogoni on a plot to frustrate...

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Ogoni: An Ecocide in the Making?

  Below is an article by Pambazuka News. The majority of refugees come from war and conflict zones, illegitimate states, areas of natural disasters and economically weak countries. In many cases,...

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Ogoni: Following Violent Military Invasion, Community...

Photo courtesy of Adrian Arbib The article below was published by Vanguard   PORT HARCOURT— Ogoni women wailed, yesterday, before the House of Representatives Committee on Army, during its...

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Ogoni: Three Killed in Oil Pipeline Explosion,...

  Below is an article published by Deutsche Welle:  Three oil workers killed in an explosion in Nigeria's Niger Delta have become the latest victims of an oil industry plagued by corruption...

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Ogoni: Senate Opens Investigation on Ogoni Land...

Below is an article published by: The Nation of Nigeria The Senate Thursday opened investigation into alleged military invasion of Ogoni land, River State. Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and...

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Ogoni: MOSOP President Calls for Speedy, Sustainable...

  Below is a press release published by MOSOP:    Honourable Minister of Environment Mrs. Amina J. Mohammed Honourable Minister of State for Environment Mr. Usman J. Ibrahim His Royal...

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Ogoni: Shell Repeatedly Sued Over Oil Spills

Photo courtesy of Sky News. Below is an article published by Sky News:   Tens of thousands of Nigerian fishermen and farmers are suing multinational oil giant Shell in two new lawsuits filed in...

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Ogoni: MOSOP President Condemns Brutal Crackdown...

  Below is a press release published by MOSOP:  The President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Mr. Legborsi Saro Pyagbara has reiterated his condemnation of the...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Outraged at Nigerian Military Pr...

  Photo courtesy of Adrian Arbib Below is an article published by News24   The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has expressed outrage at the reported invasion of Ogoni...

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Ogoni: Still No Real Commitment to Change by Nigerian...

  Below is an article published by Eagle Online Shortly after the November 10 hangings of 1995, Shell Oil Company setup an Ogoni re-entry department to help the company break the Ogoni resistance...

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Ogoni: Leaders Establish Resolution Committee...

  Below is an article published by The Tide: Ogonis have set up a committee to resolve the leadership crisis that has engulfed the umbrella body of the people, the Movement for the Survival of the...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Issues Ultimatum to the Governme...

  Below is an article published by Punch: The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People has given the Federal Government a 30-day ultimatum to implement the recommendations of the United Nations...

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Dutch Court has Jurisdiction to Hear Case against...

Geert Ritsema, campaigner at Friends of the Earth: "Today's ruling is a landslide victory for environmentalists and these four brave Nigerian farmers who, for more than seven years, have had the courage...

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Dutch Court has Jurisdiction to Hear Case against...

Geert Ritsema, campaigner at Friends of the Earth: "Today's ruling is a landslide victory for environmentalists and these four brave Nigerian farmers who, for more than seven years, have had the courage...

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Ogoni: Shell Agrees on $15.5 Million Settleme...

  Below is an article published by Naija 247 News: In what is clearly a landmark settlement, multinational oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, on Tuesday agreed to pay a settlement of $15.5 Million (N3...

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Ogoni: Celebration of Ken Saro-Wiwa

  Below is an article published by Daily Post: History has it that the Ogonis in Rivers state are strong advocates against oil exploration in the Niger Delta. The events that led to the agitation...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Vows to Continue Saro-Wiwa’s W...

THE Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has declared as successful the 20th anniversary of the death of the late Niger Delta activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and other fallen heroes of the Ogoni nation. It...

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Ogoni: Twenty Year Anniversary of the Execution...

Ken Saro-Wiwa was a trail-blazing Ogoni activist who saw the overwhelming damage being done to Ogoniland by Shell’s unrestrained petroleum dumping during the crude oil extraction process. In a society...

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Ogoni: Nigerian Customs Seize Memorial to Executed...

A memorabilia donated to the Ogoni people to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of the writer and environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, has been seized by the Nigeria Customs Service, the Movement...

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Ogoni: Assisting in the Clean-Up of Ogoniland

Below is an article published by The Tide:  Stakeholders have urged the Ogonis to unite and join hands together with the Federal Government towards the successful implementation of United Nations...

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Ogoni: Suffering and Damage Continue

Below is an article published by Asian Tribune:   Even as the 193-Member United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development on Friday the 26th of September...

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Ogoni: Petroleum – Curse Rather than Blessi...

Below is an article published by Ogoni News Petroleum was discovered in Ogoni at Bomu (Dere) in 1958; since then an estimated US 100 billion dollars’ worth of oil has been carted away from Ogoniland,...

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Ogoni: Repression in the Ogoniland Following the...

  Below is an article published by The Independent: Repression in Ogoniland has intensified after the execution of the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow Ogoni civil rights activists by the...

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Ogoni: UNEP Report Implementation Not Enough Says...

  Below is an article published by The Tide News Online: The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) says the implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Urges APC to Implement Electoral...

Below is an article published by The Guardian:   The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has urged President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Condemns Detention and Violence of...

  Below is an article published by Ogoni News: The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has called for the release of detained politicians held by the police ahead of the presidential...

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Ogoni: MOSOP pledges Oil Company to Stay Away

  Below is an article published by WorldStage News: The Kingdom Coordinators and Chapter Leaders Forum of The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) have sent a strongly worded letter...

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Ogoni: Right Livelihood Award Laureates Sign Petition...

  Below is an article published by Scoop World: Twenty-five renowned experts have petitioned the Federal Government of Nigeria to declare Ogoniland an ecological disaster zone and clean up the...

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Ogoni: Shell Refunds 15,000 People for Excessive...

Below is an article published by allAfrica:    No fewer than 15,500 indigenes of Bodo in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State have so far received N600,000 each being the monetary compensation...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Rejects Take-over of Oilfields by...

  Below is an article published by The Nigerian Voice   An enlarged congress of the MOSOP Kingdom Coordinators and Chapter Leaders Forum has overwhelmingly rejected the take-over of Ogoni...

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Ogoni: Student Activist Killed by Unknown Gun...

  Below is an article published by Sun News Online:   Gunmen have shot dead a student unionist, Mr. Nfiri Sebastine in Bori, in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. The late Sebastine...

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Ogoni: Groups Condemn Resumption of Oil Extra...

Below is an article published by Eagle Reporters: The group issued the warning in a press release signed by Media Assistant to the Chairman, MOSOP Kingdom Coordinators Forum, Letom Sinen made available...

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Ogoni: Oil Production Deal Signed with Indigenous...

  Below is an article published by This Day Live:     There are indications that oil production will soon resume in Ogoniland as the people have endorsed an indigenous firm, Belemaoil...

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Ogoni: CEHRD Proposes New Wave of Reparations...

Below is a report published in The Tide: The centre said that its proposal was based on the context of human rights as propounded by the United Nations in its basic principles and guidelines on reparation...

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Ogoni: Shell Agrees to Settlement Payment Regarding...

  Below is an article published by the BBC:   Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to a $84m (£55m) settlement with residents of the Bodo community in the Niger Delta for two oil spills. Lawyers...

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Ogoni: Protest for Political and Environmental...

  Below is an article published by Nigeria The Guardian:   The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has demonstrated in the streets of Port Harcourt, in Rivers State, in protest...

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Ogoni: Environmental Restoration of Ogoniland...

  Below is an article published by The Nigeria Guardian News: Restoration of the oil-devastated Ogoniland will begin in January next year, says the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani...

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Ogoni: Gaining Sympathy in the Fight with the...

Below is an article published by New Internationalist; A new wave of anger, manifesting in large protests, is sweeping through Nigeria’s Ogoni enclave. Early in the morning of 10 December 2013,...

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Ogoni: Boycott of 2015 Elections Unless Political...

Below is an article published by The Guardian:   The people of Ogoni in Rivers State have threatened to boycott the 2015 elections if political parties fail to choose Ogoni candidates as their flagbearers. President...

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UNPO Commemorates the Inspirational Ken Saro-...

This Monday, 10th November, marked 19 years to the day since nine activists in Nigeria were hanged by the government for their environmental activism and work for the rights of the Ogoni people. One of...

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Ogoni: Nigerian Government Sets Up Consultative...

Below is an article published by AllAfrica.com: The Federal Government has established a Multi-stakeholder Consultative Committee aimed at fast tracking the environmental restoration of Ogoni land, as...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Strives for Governor Position in...

Below is an article published by AllAfrica: DETERMINED to ensure that an Ogoni occupies the Rivers State Government House come 2015, the people of the ethnic nationality have dedicated their governorship...

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Ogoni: UNEP Report Must Be Fully Implemented

Below is an article published by the Nigerian Tribune: Leaders of Ogoniland have insisted on full implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report on Ogoniland...

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Ogoni: President Jonathan Condemned for Environment...

The following article is from The Nigerian Tribune. He said the document was yet to draw any serious response from government, adding that oil pollution in Ogoni environment had contaminated both surface...

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Ogoni: Three Years After, UNEP Recommendations...

Below is a story published by Sahara Reporters: August 4th, 2014 will make it precisely three years since the detailed report of the United Nations environmental program study on Ogoniland was submitted...

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Ogoni: Protest Against Delay In UN Environment...

Below is an article published by allAfrica: The Ogoni have concluded arrangements to storm Abuja to protest the delay in the implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme report, UNEP, on...

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Ogoni: Experts Calling For Implementation Of UN...

Below is an article by Premium Times: A group of eleven award-winning experts from Africa and Switzerland are calling on the governments of Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo to take action on...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Denounces Government Failures

Below is an article published by The Guardian Nigeria: The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has blamed the failure of successive Nigerian government to enforce relevant oil industry...

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Ogoni: Diaspora In USA Demands Ogoni Governor...

Below is an article from the Nigerian Observer The United States Chapter of the Ogoni Democratic Movement (ODM) has warned the two major political parties in Rivers State, the All Progressives Congress...

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Ogoni: Documents Reveal Extent of Shell Lobbying...

Below is an article published by The Guardian: The extent of lobbying conducted by Shell and Rio Tinto in seeking legal support from the UK government to dismiss allegations of human rights abuses has...

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Ogoni: Protest Against Alleged Exclusion From...

Below is an article published by YallAfrica More ethnic nationalities have registered their protest with the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation over alleged exclusion from the...

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Ogoni: Ken Saro-Wiwa Excluded From Honours Li...

Below is an article from the Nigerian Bulletin: The Ogoni people of Rivers state, Nigeria have expressed displeasure over the exclusion of the late environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa from the honours...

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Ogoni: UNEP Report Still Pending Implementati...

Below is an article published by the Nigerian Newspaper Leadership. The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has said that the federal government is yet to begin the implementation of...

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Ogoni: Non-Payment Of Shell After Oil Spill Triggers...

Below is an article published by AllAfrica:   Banking activities at First Bank Area office in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, was disrupted on Wednesday [22 January 2014] as protesting members of Ogoni...

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Ogoni: Protests Over Incident With Senator Ab...

Below is an article published by the Daily Times Nigeria:  Ogoni youths on Monday [13 January 2014] disrupted commercial activities in parts of Rivers state and blocked the Eleme axis...

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Ogoni: Request for the Application of the UNEP...

Below is an article published by the Daily Times NG: The President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Legbosi Piagbara, on Saturday urged the Federal Government to implement the...

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Ogoni: Nigerian Government Ready To Clean Up ...

Below is an article published by This Day Live: Following the report of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) on the degradation of Ogoniland by oil companies, the federal government is set...

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Ogoni: Protesting Environmental Wasteland

Below is an article published by the World Stage Group:  The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has announced plans to commence peaceful and non-violent direct mass actions to...

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Ogoni: Appeal To Benin President To Release Asari...

Below is an article published by Scoop. MOSOP President/Spokesman, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo says his release will lower the rising tension in West Africa MOSOP President /Spokesman, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo has...

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Ogoni: Thousands Attend Memorial For Ken Saro...

Below is an article published by Frost Illustrated: For his defense of the environment in the oil-rich lands in Nigeria’s southern tip, Ogoni activist Ken Saro Wiwa paid the highest price on Nov....

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‘The Struggle Continues’: UNPO commemorates...

Oil-drilling in Ogoniland, in southern Nigeria, began in the 1950s and has over the years come to produce what the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has called an ‘ecological disaster’....

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Ogoni: MOSOP To Denounce Government Inaction Through...

Below is an article by ThisDayLive.com: The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has said it will start a series of non-violent protests to demonstrate its disapproval of the federal government’s...

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Ogoni: Shell Asked To Explain What Caused Oil...

Below is an article published by the World Stage Group: The Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology on Thursday [7 November 2013] quizzed the leaderships of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)...

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Ogoni: Nigerian Senate Committee Demands Action...

Below is a press-release published by Allafrica.com: The attention of the Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology has been drawn to report of yet another oil spill in the Ogoni farming community,...

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Ogoni: Video Report On Niger Delta Oil Spills

Below is an article by: The Guardian. The Niger delta, home to some of the biggest oilfields in the world, is heavily polluted from five decades of living with the oil industry. In June, an explosion...

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UNPO General Secretary Speaks On "Raw Materials:...

On 3 October 2013, the Socialist and Democrats Group at the European Parliament held an important two-day event on raw materials and their importance for developing and developed countries. Marino Busdachin,...

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Ogoni: Nigerian Senator Says Ogoni Demand For...

Below is an article published by the Nigerian Tribune: The Senator representing Rivers South-East in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Abe, said the demand by the people of Ogoni ethnic nationality,...

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Ogoni: Oil Spill Negotiations With Shell Collapse...

Below is an article published by OgoniNews: Nigerian villagers on Friday [13 September 2013] rejected an offer of compensation from Royal Dutch Shell for damage done to their livelihoods by oil spills...

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Ogoni: Calls For Immortalisation Of Saro-Wiwa

Below is an article published by AllAfrica.com: If the late environmental rights activist and leader of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, Ken Saro-Wiwa was alive, he would be 72 years...

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Ogoni: Government Fails To Implement Oil Spills...

Below is an article published by allafrica.com: More than two years after the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) released a damning report of the destruction to the ecosystem in Ogoni land...

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Ogoni activists protest for their environment

The marchers also gave a 90-day ultimatum to the Federal Government of Nigeria to set in motion the proper process of implementing the recommendations of the report beginning with the scraping of the Hydrocarbon...

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Ogoni: Nigerian Government Urged To Address Environment...

Below is an article published by All Africa: Two years after the release of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) assessment of Ogoniland, the Environmental Rights Action (ERA), an NGO, has urged the...

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Ogoni: Federal Government To Adopt UNEP Plan

Below is an article published by The Guardian Nigeria:   Hope for justice now seems close to fulfillment as the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Ogoni/Shell Reconciliation Panel and Catholic...

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Ogoni: Support Increases For Governor

Below is an article published by dailypost.com.  As the 2015 gubernatorial gathers momentum in Rivers State, a cross section of the people have endorsed the demand by the Ogoni ethnic nationality...

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Ogoni: Anger At Disastrous Environmental Mism...

Below is an article published by AllAfrica.com:  Environmental Rights Action, ERA and Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, have vowed to take to the streets against the Nigerian state...

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Ogoni: Book On Murdered Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa...

Below is an article published by Vanguard:     The Niger Delta Youth Movement, NDYM, Middle Belt Youth League, MBYL and Ogoni Solidarity Forum, OSF in collaboration with the Ogoni Economic...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Demands Rivers Governorship Seat

Below is an article published by This Day Live: As the political developments in Rivers State continue to unfold, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has said the next governor of...

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Batwa: Marginalized Group In Need Of Empowerment...

Below is an article published by Daily Monitor: The 1995 Constitution (Chapter 4) clearly defines and protects the rights of the marginalised and minority groups because inclusion of the minorities in...

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Ogoni: Amnesty International Calls For Investigation...

Below is an article published by This Day Live: Amnesty International and the Nigerian National Coalition on Gas Flaring and Oil Spills (NACGOND) last week called for an independent inquiry into the remote...

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Ogoni: NEITI Says Federal Government Is Crippling...

Below is an article published by Channels: The agency which has won local and international commendations for its audit of the oil and gas industry, as well as other industries in the extractive sector,...

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Ogoni: NEITI Says Federal Government Is Crippling...

Below is an article published by Channels: The agency which has won local and international commendations for its audit of the oil and gas industry, as well as other industries in the extractive sector,...

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Ogoni: Multinationals Warned To ‘Stay Clear’...

Below is an article published by Vanguard   The people of Ogoni in Rivers State, have again vowed not to allow oil explorations resume in their area until certain conditions that would address...

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Ogoni: Communities Demand Justice In Land-grabbing...

Below is an article published by OgoniNews.com: One year after 3 persons were killed and over 600 houses destroyed in Ogoniland community of Sogho, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP)...

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Democracy Day For Nigeria, But Not For The Og...

Nigeria, the biggest and one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Africa, had been ruled by military junta leaders since 1983, when Muhammadu Buhari seized power from president Shugari, who had...

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Ogoni: US Supreme Court Dismissed Kiobel Case

Below is an article published by World Stage: The Court’s decision significantly reduces access to the U.S.courts for all survivors of human rights abuses committed abroad, a radical departure from...

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Ogoni: Shell Starting To Pull Out

Below is an article from AllAfrica.com:     Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, said, Wednesday [10 April], it had begun the decommissioning of its facilities in Ogoniland, Rivers...

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Ogoni: US Supreme Court To Deliberate Kiobel ...

Below is an article published by Al Jazeera: The United States Supreme Court is poised to issue a ruling in the case of Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum. The stakes are enormous - the case will determine...

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Ogoni: Need For Concrete Progress For Cleanup...

Below is an article published by theafricareport Ogoniland in Nigeria shot into international glare in the early 1990s when the people peacefully demanded an end to reckless despoliation of their land...

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Ogoni: Ogoniland Cleanup Requires More Urgenc...

Below is an article published by The Africa Report: When the UNEP report on the assessment of the Ogoni environment was released in August 2011 the world was astounded at the level of devastation visited...

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Ogoni: Musical Campaign Group Against Shell's...

Below is an article published by the Huffington Post:  Protesters have always used chants and slogans as a potent method of drawing attention to pressing issues. Now a newly-formed campaign group...

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Ogoni: Suspicions Rise Over Resumed Unlawful Oil...

Below is an article published by Spy Ghana: Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) may be set for a serious crisis and bloodletting in Ogoni, Nigeria. Information reaching the African Cultural and Fundamental Rights...

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Ogoni: Opposition To Oil Production Commencem...

Below is an article published by This Day Live: Moves by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to resume oil production from 30 oil fields belonging to Shell Petroleum Development and Production...

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Ogoni: UNEP Report Justifies Claims Against S...

Below is an article published by This Day Live:  Leaders of the Ogoni ethnic nationality have said that the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) assessment report on Ogoniland has finally...

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Ogoni: For A Joint Review Of The UNEP Report

Below is an article published by Scoop: This is to remind UNEP that MOSOP leadership and the Ogoni people remain open to a joint review of the UNEP Environmental Assessment Report on Ogoniland first released...

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Ogoni: Senate Committee On Environment and Ecology...

Below is an article published by DailyPost: The Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology had met on Thursday [31January 2013] with Shell Nigeria over the lingering oil spills and environmental degradation...

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Court Rules Shell Partially Responsible For Oil...

Below is an article published by the BBC News: A Dutch court has ruled that a subsidiary of Shell is partially responsible for oil pollution in Nigeria's Niger Delta region. The court dismissed four...

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Ogoni: Farm Destroyed While Self-Determination...

Below is an article published by Ogoninews:   A high-risk intensive Banana plantation in Ogoniland jointly owned by Rivers State Government and the Mexican company Union De Iniciativa S.A De C.V,...

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Ogoni: Clean Up Has Yet To Take Place

Below is an article published by The Nigerian Guardian:   PRESIDENT of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Legbosi Pyagbara, has vowed that Ogoni people will continue to resist oil...

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Ogoni: Repeated Demands For Fair Share Of Oil...

Below is an article published by Codewit World News:   Oil producing communities in the Niger Delta area have asked governors of states in the region to give account of the 13 per cent derivation...

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Ogoni: New President of the Movement for Survival...

  Below is an article published by The Guardian of Nigeria: THE Movement for Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has elected Mr. Legborsi Saro Pyagbara as its new president. Pyagbara, who until his...

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Ogoni: Aid Appeal For Flood Victims

Below is an article published by Codewit World News:   Ogoni in Rivers State have appealed to the Federal Government to come to the aid of victims of the recent flood disaster that submerged various...

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Ogoni: Security Forces Open Fire on Ogoni Com...

Below is an article published by All Voices:   ARMED security forces protecting the interest of the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major, Shell, on Friday, opened fire on a protesting Ogoni community in...

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Ogoni: Drinking Water Un-fit For Human Consum...

  Below is an article from NGR Guardian News: The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has expressed concern over the failure of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Programme...

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Ogoni: Call For Implementation

Below is an article published by Vanguard:   The Ogoni have again appealed to the Federal Government to commence implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, report on the area. It...

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Ogoni: Maintaining Non-Violence Tradition Amidst...

Below is an article published by Scoop Independent News: Ogonis say time is running out for non-cooperative and deceptive politicians, and that they are poised to enforce their self-government. The...

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Ogoni: Worst Case Of Oil-Induced Violence

  Below is an article published by Ogoni News: A recent report by Bogumil Terminski of the University of Warsaw has shown that the Ogoni suffer the worst case of oil-induced violence in the world....

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Ogoni: Campaign Targets Dole For Supporting Shell’s...

Below is an article published by Examiner:   Dole is the target of a campaign by grassroots activist organisation Sum Of Us, to pressure the company to withdraw its support from the amicus...

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Ogaden: Mass Detentions Of Civilians

Below is an article published by OGADEN ONLINE:   Ethiopian troops are reported to have illegally detained unknown number of Ogaden civilians in Degabour for the last 48 hours. It is reported that...

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Ogoni: Experts Praise Lawsuit Against Shell In...

Below is an article published by This Day Live:   Foreign experts have described as a major landmark, the suit filed by Ogoni people against the Dutch oil company, Shell, in Netherlands last week...

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Ogoni: Shell Case Taken To The Dutch Court

Below is an article published by BBC: The case is being brought by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch branch of campaigners Friends of the Earth. If their case is successful it could pave the way for...

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Ogoni: Senate Committee Condemns Environmental...

Below is an article published by Leadership: The Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology has decried the high level of environmental degradation caused by decades of oil spills in Ogoniland due to...

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Ogoni: Individual Testimonies Highlight Human-Rights...

Below is an article published by Business Day Online: Solomon Mnaa, a cassava farmer in the Ogoni region of Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta, says he was accosted near his farm by “a gang...

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Ogoni: Still No Environmental Cleanup By Shel...

Below is an article published by The Guardian:   Two large crude oil spills from Shell pipelines in the Niger delta four years ago have still not been cleaned up by the company despite an outcry...

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Ogoni: A Call To Re-Write History

Below is an article published by Ogoni News: On November 10, 1995, the Nigerian government unfairly killed 'nine' innocent Ogoni people after a military trial which denied them a right to appeal. The...

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Ogoni: A Call For Environmental Justice

Below is an article published by BusinessDay Nigeria: Even though Ogoni people have always supported the call for the devolution of power to local entities to reflect true federalism upon which the Nigerian...

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Ogoni: Calling On President To Take Action

Below is an article published by IOL News: Nigerians from a region devastated by oil spills on Monday called on the president to take action, more than a year after a United Nations report said the contamination...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Letter Seeks International Attention...

Below is an article published by All Voices:     Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, says kinsmen and women of Ken Saro-Wiwa, in the Rivers State axis of Southern Nigeria,...

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Ogoni: Youth Training On Environmental Remedi...

Below is an article published by All Africa: The Federal Government has said it would train youths of Ogoniland, Rivers State, on environmental remediation to enable them participate in the clean-up of...

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Ogoni: After a Year, Abuja to Start Delta Cle...

Below is an article published by Voxy: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has welcomed the Government of Nigeria's decision to proceed with a major oil contamination clean-up of Ogoniland in the Niger...

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Ogoni: Mitigating Impacts Of Environmental Di...

Below is an article published by Vanguard: Crude oil exploration has witnessed an upward growth since the commodity was first discovered in the country in the 1950s. While it has sustained the Nigerian...

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Ogoni: Reaffirmation Of UNDRIP Enforcement

Below is an article published by The Nation: Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has vowed to enforce the United Nations Declaration on rights of the indigenous people of Ogoni land. The...

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Ogoni: New Website To Educate Youth On Human ...

Below is an article published by Ogoni News: The group, known as the HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CLUB (HURAC), is a student-led group formed in 2008 by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People during...

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Ogoni: Pollution Restoration Project To Start

Below is an article published by The Daily Times Nigeria: The Federal Government has set up a Hydro-Carbon Pollution Restoration Project (HYPREP) as part of the implementation of the United Nations Environment...

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Ogoni: Shell Requested to Compensate Region

Below is an article published by BBC: Nigeria's oil regulator has asked industry giant Shell to pay $5bn (£3.2bn) for a spill off the country's southern coast last December. The disclosure was...

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Ogoni: To Tackle Security Challenges Poverty Has...

Below is an article published by The Nation: The Federal Government amnesty programme in the Niger Delta is not the solution to the problem in the region, the former President of the Movement for the...

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Ogoni: Taking Case To US Congress

Below is an article published by Leadership: Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has said that it would make a presentation before the United States Congress on July 10, 2012 on the refusal...

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Ogoni: UNEP Oil Spill Report Considered

Below is an article published by This Day: The Federal Government is on the verge of implementing recommendations by a special team, which it set up last year to review the United Nations Environmental...

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Ogoni: Commission Condemns Lack Of Implementa...

Below is an article published by The Guardian Nigeria: The National Human Rights Commission has said that the non-implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme  (UNEP) report on the...

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Ogoni: Draft Oil Bill to Prohibit Gas Flaring

Below is an article published by Reuters: Nigeria's newly drafted oil bill, which is now close to being finalised, mandates that oil firms must stop flaring gas by the end of this year [2012], and that...

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Ogoni: President Receives Report On Oil Spill...

Below is an article published by AllAfrica: Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, said an interim report of a special review committee on the United Nations Environmental...

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Ogoni: Activists Demand the Implementation of...

Below is an article published by allafrica.com An environmental rights group, Foundation for Environmental Rights, Advocacy and Development (FENRAD), has called on the Federal Government and the Shell...

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Ogoni: Shell Closes Office After Protest

Below is an article published by AllAfrica: The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) shut down its office in Rumoumasi area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as hundreds of Ogonis and environmental...

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Ogoni: Oil Spill Still Taints Earth Day

Below is an article published by the Daily Trust: For the last 40 years, Earth Day has been celebrated around the world on April 22 to call attention to some of our most pressing environmental and social...

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Ogoni: Earth Day Call For Cleanup

Below is an article published by Voice of America: A group of Nigerians in the United States marked Earth Day Sunday by calling on President Goodluck Jonathan to implement recommendations from a U.N....

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Ogoni: Niger Delta Heavily Polluted Through Continuous...

Below is an article published by Yale Environment 360: The Ogoniland region of Nigeria has long been badly polluted by decades of oil production that has fouled the delta and contaminated drinking water....

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Ogoni: Calls To Refuse Sale Of Farmland

Below is an article published by Leadership: The people of Luebe community in Khana local government area of Rivers State has appealed to Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to forget about acquiring their...

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Ogoni: Former MOSOP Leader Calls For Concrete...

Below is an article published by Vanguard:  Former president of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, Ledum Mitee has called for a more concrete approach towards addressing challenges...

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Ogoni: Legal Action Brought To British Court

Below is an article published by BBC News: Shell has accepted responsibility for the spillage of about 4,000 barrels in Ogoniland in the Niger Delta. But Bodo community representatives say they are having...

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Ogoni: Oil Still Driving Problems in Niger Delta...

Below is an article published by the Daily Trust:   The Centre for Advanced Social Science (CASS), an NGO, says the Federal Government is yet to address development challenges in the Niger Delta.   Dr...

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Ogoni: Senate Vows To Tackle Oil Pollution

Below is an article published by AllAfrica: Senate yesterday [19 March 2012] vowed to monitor implementation of United Nations Environment Programme report on the Oil spillage in Ogoni land, just as the...

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UNPO Highlights Successes and Failures in Implementation...

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process established by the United Nations Human Rights Council wherein states, UN agencies, and civil society can come together and comment on a wide range of human...

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Ogoni: US Supreme Court To Re-Hear Corporate Responsibility...

Below is an article published by Vanguard: The US Supreme Court decided Monday [5 March 2012] to hear arguments a second time in a dispute between oil giant Royal Dutch Shell and Nigerian victims of torture. The...

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Ogoni: Victims Testify against Corporation

Below is an article by People’s World: It was "human rights vs. Big Oil" on Tuesday [28 February 2012], when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from 12 Nigerian citizens, who, in a lawsuit against...

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Ogoni: Coalition Of NGOs And Activists Calls...

Below is an article  published by Platform London:   A global coalition of NGOs, human rights monitors, academics and analysts have joined Platform in sending a letter to the Board members...

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Ogoni: US Supreme Court To Hear Shell’s Corporate...

Below is an article published by the Voice of America:  The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday [28 February 2012] on whether or not corporations can be held liable for complicity in human...

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Ogoni: Corporations Must be Accountable for A...

Below is an article by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: The lawsuit, Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell), was brought in 2002 by 12 Nigerians who allege that the company “aided...

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Ogoni: Community Protests Against Land Expropriation...

Below is an article published by All Africa: The people of Luebe, Khana local government area of Rivers State, have said that no amount of intimidation would make them succumb to alleged plans by the...

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Ogoni: Nigerian Government Called Upon To Implement...

Below is an article published by Leadership:   Former militants in the Niger Delta region have called on the Federal Government to begin the full implementation of the recommendations of the report...

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Ogoni: Calls for Change to Environmental Legislation...

Below is an article published by the Daily Trust: Reacting to the recent Bonga oil spill which has poisoned hundreds of square miles of sensitive coastal wetlands, an Expert and Legal Consultant in Environmental...

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Ogoni: HRW World Report Highlights Ogoniland ...

Below is an article published by Leadership: The Human Right Watch (HRW) has revealed that the level of oil pollution in the Ogoni land region of Rivers State would require an initial cost of $1 billion,...

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Ogoni: Leader Appeals to MOSOP to End Injustice...

Below is an article by the Daily Champion: The leadership of Ogoni community in Akpor Kingdom, Port Harcourt (OCAP) have called on the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People MOSOP to fight injustice...

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Ogoni: Roundtable To Tackle Oil Spills

Below is an  article published by Leadership: Energy experts from around the world recently converged in Abuja to brainstorm and find lasting ways to tackle Nigeria’s oil spill challenge. Juliet...

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Ogoni: Roots Of Occupy Nigeria To Be Found In...

Below is an  article published by Waging Non Violence: For too many expatriate Africans living in the West, the phrase Occupied Nigeria raises scary images of U.S. or NATO warships bearing down in...

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Ogoni: Shell’s Atrocities Unnoticed

Below is an article published by Peoples World Last month, oil magnate Royal Dutch Shell had an industrial accident, which sent one to two million gallons of oil straight into the ocean off the coast...

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Ogoni: Mitee Pushes For Development

Below is an article published by Nigerian Tribune  The former President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP ), Mr Ledum Mitee, has urged the Rivers State government...

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Ogoni: Mitee Marks Unity As Elections Near

Below is a speech released by MOSOP: In my last Ogoni Day statement on the 4th of January last year, I had said that would be my last speech as MOSOP President, as I would not be offering myself up for...

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Ogoni: 19th Ogoni Day Anniversary Celebration

Below is a press release published by the African Herald Express:   As we commemorate the 19th Ogoni Day Anniversary today when over 300,000 Ogonis came out en masse and non-violently challenged...

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Ogoni: Women’s Movements In The Niger Delta

Below is an article published by Red Pepper: The Niger Delta has been at the centre of Nigeria’s post‑independence military project from the first coup in 1966 through to the present....

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Ogoni: MOSOP Condemns Killing And Recent Kidnappings...

  Below is an article published by the Nation Online:   The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has “strongly” condemned Thursday’s [8 December 2011] killing...

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Ogoni: Journalists and Activists Detained Amid...

Below is an article published by Business Daily Online: The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of an ERA/FoEN staff,...

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Ogoni: NOSDRA Fines Oil Company For Oil Spill

Below is an article published by Vanguard National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, has fined Sterling Oil Exploration and Energy Production Company, SEEPCO Limited about N68million for...

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Ogoni: Affected People Excluded From Investigations...

Below is an article published by Daily Times NG:   Senator Magnus Abe has expressed shock over the exclusion of the Ogoni people from the committee set up by the Federal Government for the clean-up...

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Ogoni: Widows Decry Shell’s Human Rights Ab...

Below is an article published by Courthouse News Service: Three Nigerian widows say Shell Petroleum and its African subsidiaries conspired with each other and with Nigeria's military government "to violate...

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Ogoni: Activists Remembered

Below is an article published by Voice of America A socio-cultural group in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, or MOSOP, is commemorating the execution of...

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Ogoni: Amnesty Asks Shell To Pay For Clean-Up...

  Below is an article published by Reuters:   Royal Dutch Shell's failure to mop up two oil spills in the Niger Delta has caused huge suffering to locals whose fisheries and farmland were...

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Ogoni: Saro-Wiwa Letters Preserved for Future...

Below is an article by Independent News Media: Nigerian human rights activist executed for opposing oil exploration in his homeland took comfort from the Northern Ireland peace process, his death row...

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Ogoni: Non-Implementation of UNEP Report Sparks...

Below is an article published by Tribune: The placard-carrying multitude, mobilised by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) and led by its president, Ledum Mitee, marched through...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Intensifies Call For Bori State...

Below is an article published by All Africa Speakers and participants at the 16th anniversary and 1st memorial lecture of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni martyrs have called for the support of other ethnic...

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Ogoni: King Files Law Suit Against Shell

Below is an article published by Discovery News: The US Supreme Court plans to consider the lawsuit in what the AFP called "a landmark case that could make companies liable for torture or genocide committed...

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Ogoni: US Supreme Court Decides to Hear Ogoni-Shell...

Below is an article by Voice of America: The president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People [MOSOP] said his group welcomes the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear a dispute between...

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Ogoni: US Supreme Court to Rule Against Shell...

Below is an article published by This Day Live The court said it would use the dispute filed under the 1789 U.S law, called Alien Tort Statute, to decide whether companies can be held liable in the U.S...

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Ogoni: UNEP Content With Air Study Despite Co...

Below is an article published by Daily Trust: The United Nations Environment Programme, which last month [date] released a report assessing the impact of oil spills in Shell's operating area in Ogoni...

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Ogoni: Wrongfully Accused Demand Compensation...

Below is an article by Champion Newspapers:  Twenty youths from Ogoniland in Rivers state who were arrested in 1994 over the alleged killing of four prominent Ogoni chiefs have called on the federal...

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Ogoni: Court Documents Reveal Military In Bed...

Below is an article published by The Guardian: Shell has never denied that its oil operations have polluted large areas of the Niger Delta – land and air. But it had resisted charges of complicity...

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Ogoni: Shell Oil Paid Nigerian Military to Put...

Below is an article published by The Guardian   Shell has never denied that its oil operations have polluted large areas of the Niger Delta – land and air. But it had resisted charges of complicity...

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Ogoni: Governors Demand Federal Action

Below is an article published by The Nation: Southsouth governors have called on the Federal Government to implement the recommendations of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on Ogoniland. The...

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Ogoni: OSF Threatens To Sue Rivers State Over...

Below is an article published by Fresh Plaza. The Ogoni Solidarity Forum has threatened to drag the Rivers State government to court for allegedly taking over lands belonging to Ogonis for a Banana plantation...

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Ogoni: Federal Government Advised to Declare State...

Below is an article published by Vanguard: FEDERAL Government has been told to declare a state of emergency in Ogoni area of Rivers State, with a view to tackling the health and environmental challenges...

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Ogoni: Scars of Oil Spills Refuse to Fade

Below is an article published by Reuters Africa: Skillfully scooping water from beneath a thick black carpet of crude, veteran Nigerian fisherman Suagelo Kpalap gives a shrug of resignation at the mention...

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Ogoni: Government Tackles Spillage

Below is an article published by Vanguard The report of a joint venture study by the United Nations environmental programme and the Federal Government of Nigeria recently presented to President Goodluck...

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Ogoni: UNEP Report Shakes Oil Companies into Discussing...

Belowis an article published by All Africa: Top oil operators in the country met yesterday in Abuja over the oil spill report submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan recently by the United Nations Environmental...

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Ogoni: Record Cleanup Needed in Niger Delta

Below is an article published by Agence France Presse: The air smells like poison, the creek water carpeted with crude, and the boat operator covers his nose as he steps on a jetty in a region hit by...

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Ogoni: Congress Resolutions on UNEP Report

A Special Ogoni Congress was called under the aegis of Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, to review recent developments in the Ogoni struggle for justice especially, the developments...

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Ogoni: Nigeria oil cleanup could take 30 years,...

Below is an article published by CNN. A landmark report from the U.N. Environmental Program (UNEP) concluded that pollution from more than 50 years of oil operations in Nigeria's Ogoniland region is more...

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Ogoni: Mosop Welcomes Shell’s Admittance Of...

   August 4th, 2011   Press Release   MOSOP WELCOMES SHELL’S ADMITTANCE OF LIABILITY OVER BODO OILSPILLS   The Movement for the survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP)...

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UNEP Report Uncovers Shell’s Poisoned Legacy...

Photo of oil spill, taken during February 2010 UNPO visit to Ogoniland Below is an article published by UNPO: A landmark report issued by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) following years...

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Ogoni: Shell Admits Liability As UN Prepares Oil...

Below is an article publish by Reuters:  Royal Dutch Shell has agreed that a Nigerian community impacted by its oil spills can seek compensation in a British court, lawyers in the case have said,...

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Ogoni: Time to Take FG to Court is Now

Below is an article published by Modern Ghana:   The time has come for Ogonis and other Niger deltans to peacefully take the state and FGs to court for violating their rights to land ownership....

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Ogoni: Collaboration Shows Government the Need...

Below is an article published by The Nation: Worried over the growing devastation in the Niger Delta region, especially the environ-mental impact, rights activists and other concerned stakeholders...

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Ogoni: Ledum Mitee Urges Redesign of Oil Policies...

Below is an article published by Next: Since 1956, when crude oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in Oloibiri, Bayelsa State, it had been mixed fortunes for communities in the Niger Delta,...

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Ogoni: Less Hot Air and More Action – Gas Flaring...

Below is an article published by Think Africa Press: Gas flaring in the Niger Delta region highlights the environmental problems posed by resource extraction, and the failure of successive governments...

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Ogoni: Saro Wiwa Sculpture Finds New Home in ...

Below is an article published by Voice Online:   Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian Government in 1995 alongside eight other activists who had campaigned against the social and environmental...

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Ogoni: New Report on Wiwa vs. Shell

Below is an excerpt from a report published by Friends of the Earth Netherlands: Ken Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a well-known Nigerian author and television producer. He was...

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Ogoni: ‘We’ll Resist Ogoni Land Grabbing�...

Below is an article published by Scoop World: THE Ogoni people of Rivers State, have vowed that they will resist by all available legal means any large scale aquisition of their land for whatever project...

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Ogoni: Resolution Calls for Focus on Developm...

Below is the resolution in full: RESOLUTIONS OF THE OGONI CONGRESS HELD AT THE PEACE AND FREEDOM CENTRE, BORI ON THE 19TH JUNE 2011.   At a Congress of the Ogoni people held on Sunday the 19th...

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Ogoni: Poverty-struck in a Land of Riches

Below is an article published by Mshale: Saro Nkesi still finds it difficult to talk about the years before he finally left Nigeria. “During the period of 1993 to 1995, I was always staying in...

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UNPO Members Active At UN Permanent Forum On Indigenous...

  UNPO Members were well represented at this year’s United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). The Ahwazi Arabs, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Cordillera, Crimean Tatars, Degar...

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Ogoni: Ibrahim Auta Appointed Chief Judge

Below is an article published by Nigerian Compass   The confirmation came despite stiff opposition from many of the senators, including the Chairman of the Committee on Petroleum (Upstream)who...

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Ogoni: Community Files New Law Case Against Shell...

Below is an article published by AllAfrica:  The people of Bodo in Gokana local government area of Rivers State have dragged the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to court following a recent...

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Ogoni: What Niger Delta Expects From Jonathan

  Below is an article published by AllAfrica:With the general elections over, attention should now shift to the critical issues of governance and development which in any event are the essence of...

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Ogoni: Ledum Mitee Welcomes Change in Nigerian...

Below is an article published by Nigerian Compass   Ahead of the inauguration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on May 29, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has called...

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Ogoni: Will the Election Riots Spread to the ...

Below is an article published by The Independent: Soldiers patrolled the streets, cities were under curfew and doctors counted the dead yesterday in northern Nigeria as an election trumpeted as the fairest...

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Nigeria’s Elections: Another Sham or a Victory...

That Alojz Peterle, the European Union’s chief election observer, spoke about a “...generally peaceful atmosphere”, when talking about an election that left hundreds of people dead, is...

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Ogoni: Oil and Democracy in the Niger Delta

Below is an article published by Al Jazeera: With environmental damage wreaked by leaking oil pipelines, citizens of the Niger Delta have often lost out to the interests of powerful corporate bodies. In...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Seeks Release Of Kidnapped Reps ...

  Below is an article published by: Nigerian Compass.MOVEMENT for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has called for the unconditional release of the lawmaker representing Gokana/Khana Federal...

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Ogoni: Activist Challenges Presidential Candidates...

  Below is an article published by All Voices:   A frontline Ogoni and environmental rights activist, Mr. Patrick Naagbanton, has taken on the presidential candidates of political parties...

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Ogoni: Governorship Candidate Supports Creation...

Below is an article published by The Vanguard: Governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, has promised to support the creation of new states out of the...

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Ogoni: Autonomy as a First Step to Real Refor...

Below is an articlepublished by Think Africa Press: In a month’s time Nigerians go to the polls in the country’s fourth general election since democracy was re-established in 1999. As the...

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Ogoni: U.S. Court Declines to Hear Suit Against...

Below is an article published by allAfrica.com: A United States Appeal Court on Friday [4 February 2011] refused to entertain a lawsuit that accused Royal Dutch Shell Plc of helping Nigerian authorities...

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Ogoni: Shell’s Environmental and Human Rights...

Below an article published by The Guardian  Despite today's soaring profit figures, Shell remains a company under siege for its lucrative activities in Africa. At a parliamentary hearing in the...

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Ogoni: Shell To Blame for Environmental Disaster...

Below is an article published by Common Dreams: Environmental groups have accused oil giant Shell of abusing human rights and the environment in the Niger Delta at a Dutch parliamentary hearing. Amnesty...

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Ogoni: Plot to Assassinate MOSOP President

Below is an article published by All Africa: The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) yesterday said it has uncovered a plot by some politicians to assassinate its President, Mr. Ledum Mitee....

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Ogoni: Nonviolence Will Protect Niger Delta E...

Below is an article published by the Daily Sun: Founder/President of The Netherlands-based Hope for Niger Delta Campaign (HNDC), Comrade Sunny Ofehe, keeps the flame of the Niger Delta question aglow...

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Marking Ogoni Nonviolence

Below is his speech published by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People: In every era, in every clime and for every oppressed people, God always in His infinite wisdom provides an opportunity...

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Ogoni: “Frivolous” Spending No Solution To...

Below is an article published by the Daily Independent: Militancy in Niger Delta region did not start in a day. It is not out of place to say that the discovery of oil in 1957 in the area triggered a...

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Ogoni: When Will the Last Controversy Around the...

Below is an article published by The Independent: Compelling new evidence suggests the Nigerian military killed four Ogoni elders whose murders led to the execution of the playwright and activist Ken...

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Ogoni: Non-Violence As Means Of Seeking Redr...

    Below is an article published by The Nigerian Observer:   Mr Ledum Mitee, a lawyer, is the President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), the apex organisation...

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Ogoni: Nnimmo Bassey Condemns Nigerian Biofuels...

  Below is an article published by NEXT: At the time the barrel price of crude oil shot up, the world began to sing the biofuels song. Biofuels were touted as a replacement for fossil fuels and...

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Hundreds Attend Commemoration Of UNPO’s Executed...

  Over 700 people attended the commemorative concert “Standing Before History” on Wednesday November 10 2010, exactly 15 years after the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 other Ogoni leaders....

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UNPO Set to Mark 15th Anniversary of Executed...

  Below is a press release published by UNPO: In collaboration with 7 other major environmental and human rights organisations, UNPO is holding a set of events in The Hague to pay respects to...

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Ogoni: 15th anniversary execution of Ken Saro...

  Below is an article published by Amnesty International:   The executions alerted the world to the devastating impact of the oil industry in the Niger Delta, including how the environmental...

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Ogoni: Bombs, Insurgents, and Nigeria's Golden...

  Below is an article published by Relief Web:   In the weeks since the bombings, supporters of President Jonathan and his various antagonists, including former military dictator Ibrahim...

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Ogoni: Goodluck Nigeria

  Below is an article published by Project Syndicate:   The death last May of Umaru Yar’Adua, Nigeria’s president, upended the informal agreement between members of the ruling...

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Ogoni: Oronto Douglas Among World’s Influential...

Below is an article published by Next: Environmentalist and special adviser to the President on Research, documentation and Strategy, Oronto Douglas has been named among the 20 most influential writers,...

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Clean the Niger Delta – “We all stand before...

Saro-Wiwa was a prolific writer who used literature to challenge the status quo. He was a founding Member and President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), an organisation whose...

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Ogoni: The Bomb Culture

  Below is an article published by Pambazuka News:   The Willink Commission Report of 1958, which examined the fears of minorities and proposed ways to allay them in the fledgling nation,...

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Ogoni: Comeback for Shell in Nigeria’s Ogon...

  Below is an article published by Radio Netherlands Worldwide:   “We wouldn’t mind returning to Ogoni - if the situation is safe,” says a spokesman for Shell.  The...

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Ogoni: U.S. Court Denies Activists The Right To...

  Below is an article published by Workers World:   The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a stunning decision in the Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum case on Sept. 17. The...

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Ogoni: NGOs Speak Out Against UNEP Exoneration...

Below is an article published by AllAfrica:   A United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report due for release in December (2010) which is reported to have exonerated Shell Petroleum Development...

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Ogoni: Netherlands Must Call Shell To Account

  Below is an article published by SP International:   Together with Labour, the Green Left, the Christian Union and the centrist D66, the SP has tabled a number of parliamentary questions...

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Ogoni: Is The UN A Fig Leaf For Shell?

Below is an article published by: Morning Star Online Campaigners have accused a top United Nations body of operating a "manipulative PR strategy" to absolve Royal Dutch Shell of responsibility for an...

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Ogoni: Niger Delta Oil Spills Have No End In...

  Below is an article published by: The Vancouver Sun Faith Brown vents her frustration toward the stream of oil lapping at the shores through poetry. The thick, tarry crude paints a gruesome picture....

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Ogoni: The people of Ejama Ebubu compensated for...

Below is an article published by the Nigerian Compass: On Monday, July 5, 2010, a High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State, ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to pay the people of Ejama...

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Ogoni: Oil Firms must Compensate the People of...

 Below is an article published by the Guardian:Grilled in Congress, shares down to £3 and forced to pledge billions of dollars in compensation, BP is paying the price for the damage it has caused...

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Ogoni: Oil Pollution Double Standards

 Below is an article published by CNN: But occurring over the 50 years since oil production began in the Delta, this environmental disaster has never received the attention that is now being paid...

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Ogoni: Will US Oil Spill Bring Attention to the...

Below is an article from the HuffingtonPost.com Oil is cheap. Despite all the taxes that are placed in every single gallon of oil we buy, it is still cheap. But when we factor in both the human and...

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Ogoni: Nigeria Threatens US Oil Firm with Sanctions...

  Below is an article published by France 24: Idris Musa, head of Nigeria's oil spill response agency, said the meeting was to "call the attention of ExxonMobil, for the last time, to...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Petitions UN Over Planned Military...

   Below is an article published by The Guardian: MOSOP said the project not only has serious implications for Ogoni environmental security but also has vast implications on the people's...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Mobilises for Implementation of NDTC...

  Below is an article published by Vanguard News Online : MOVEMENT for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, has set up an action committee to sensitise Niger Delta communities towards ensuring...

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Ogoni: Renowned Author writes about Self-Determination...

   Below is article published by 234next.com:The public presentation of “When Citizens Revolt: Nigerian Elites, Big Oil and the Ogoni Struggle”, written by Ike Okonta, will hold...

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Ogoni: UNEP Uncovers More Spill Sites in Ogon...

Below is an article published by AllAfrica.com :Port Harcourt — More oil impacted sites have been discovered in Ogoni area by the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, an international agency...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Condemns Killing of Ogoni Youth by...

The below article published by The Movement for Survival of the Ogoni People : The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, receives with utmost bitterness the shooting and killing today...

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Ogoni: Oil Bunkering in Ogoniland

 Below is an article published by: allAfrica.comShell, a Dutch oil major which operated over the years received a heavy blow from the people over their companies. Consequently it was chased out of...

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Ogoni: Ethnic Nationalities, Civil Society Query...

   Below is an article published by Vanguard: A coalition of Nigerian ethnic nationalities and the civil society groups, yesterday [February 26, 2010], in The Hague, queried the loyalty...

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Ogoni: ECCR Report Calls on Shell to Clean Up...

Below is an article published by ECCR:As Shell faces a lawsuit in the Netherlands over alleged oil pollution in Nigeria, a new report published today argues that the oil giant can and should take both...

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Ogoni: Cleaning Ogoni Land

Below is an article published by Next: Aninternational organization for minorities, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) has counseled the new oil operator likely to take over the...

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Int’l Agency Tasks Shell on Ogoni Environment...

 Below is an article published by: VanguardSpeaking yesterday (2 February 2010) in Port Harcourt at the office of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Programme Officer of the group,...

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Ogoni: Unmet Vows Tied to Ebb of a Truce in N...

   Below is an article published by New York Times : A militant group’s announcement that it was ending a cease-fire in Nigeria is linked to the government’s failure to keep...

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Ogoni: ‘Packaging President won’t alter political...

  Below is an article published by Punch: The President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Mr. Ledum Mitee, has said that the desperation by those he described as the hawks...

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Ogoni: Join Agitation for State Creation

  Below is an article published by Next:   The people of Ogoni, in Rivers State have joined the agitation for the creation of more states in Nigeria with a demand for the creation...

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Ogoni: Renewed Demand for Replacement of Shel...

  Below is an article published by Business Day: Still basking in a strong community-wide avowal to keep the Anglo Dutch Shell completely out of their oil-laden lands, the Ogonis have again...

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Ogoni: Renewed Demand for Replacement of Shel...

 Below is an article published by Business Day : Still basking in a strong community-wide avowal to keep the Anglo Dutch Shell completely out of their oil-laden lands, the Ogonis have again called...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Tells Government to Develop N-Delta...

   Below is an article published by Vanguard News: The Federal Government had been told to consolidate on the gains of its amnesty to repentant militants in the Niger Delta by coming up...

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Ogoni: Nigeria Needs to Address Its Own Probl...

Below is an article published by This Day: President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Mr. Ledum Mitee has said that the latest decision of the United States of America to list...

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Ogoni: 18th Annual Celebration

  Below is a statement made by Mr. Ledum Mitee, MOSOP and UNPO President;  When on this hallowed ground we and our forebears gathered on the 4th of January 1993, at the very first Ogoni...

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Ogoni: Police Confirm Amnesty Report, Sack Ogoni...

 Below is an article published by Nigerian Compass: Policemen, it was learnt, manhandled people from the affected villages, including women and children, while those who ran into the bush were chased.The...

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Ogoni: Agitation For State Creation

Below is an article published by The Punch: Agitators for the creation of new states from Rivers and Delta states on Tuesday occupied prime place at the second day of the public hearing on the review of...

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Ogoni: UN to Assess Contaminated Oil Production...

  Below is an article published by Environment News Service:An environmental assessment of the pollution left by decades of oil production in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta was jointly launched...

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Ogoni: UN to Assess Oil-Contaminated Region

   Below is an article published by the UN News Center: The $9.5 million assessment, which will be jointly carried out by UNEP and the Governor of Nigeria’s Rivers state following...

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Ogoni: Human Rights Groups Ask Shell To Leave...

 Below is an article published by Next: Two human right groups staged a peaceful protest rally yesterday in remembrance of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni people who were killed on November 10,...

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Ogoni: Niger Delta Leaders Disagree on 10% Oil...

 Below is an article published by Punch: Niger Delta leaders on Tuesday disagreed in their reactions to the resolve of the Federal Government to grant 10 per cent stake in the oil and gas Joint...

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Ogoni: Group Tasks Shell on Ogoni Clean-up

  Below is an article published by This Day Online: Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/ FoEN) has stated that the   attempts by the Federal Government to...

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Ogoni: Federalism, not Amnesties Are The Solution...

Below is an article published by The Guardian (Nigeria) :As the deadline given to the Niger Delta militants over the amnesty offer by the Federal Government draws close, I actually wonder if the end of...

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Ogoni: NGO Plans To Engage Youths in Movie In...

Below is an article published by Leadership Nigeria: A Port Harcourt-based NGO, the Ogoni Christian Project, plans to engage 5,000 Ogoni youths in the movie industry. The coordinator of the project, Mr...

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Ogoni: Time to Real Reconciliation

Below is an Editorial published by The Guardian Nigeria :Whichever way history may treat the Ogoni non-violence struggle, spear headed by the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) against environmental...

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Ogoni: Bill of Right as a Solution to Niger Delta...

Below is an article publish by the Vanguard The Movement Against Corruption in Nigeria has urged the Federal Government to adopt the principle of Ogoni Bill of Right and the Kaiama Declaration to resolve...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Petitions Police Over Members Ar...

   Below is an article published by This Day Online News: Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People  (MO-SOP) has petitioned the Rivers State Commissioner of Police over arrest...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Welcomes Settlement

   Below is a press release  published by MOSOP: The Movement for the survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) welcomes the news of the agreement by Shell to compensate families of some...

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Congratulatory Letter Regarding the Settlement...

The Hague, 10 June 2009On behalf of the members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), I would like to congratulate the families of the nine human rights activists whose fight for...

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Ogoni: Shell Settles Ogoni Saro-Wiwa Case

 Below is an article published by BBC News : Royal Dutch Shell has agreed a $15.5m (£9.7m) out-of-court settlement in a case accusing it of complicity in human rights abuses in Nigeria.It was...

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Ogoni: Shell vs Saro-Wiwa Trial Delayed Again

  Below is an article published by Voice of America : More than 13 years after Nigeria executed writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others, a U.S. civil trial of the Shell Oil Company...

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Ogoni: New Delay Hits Shell Rights Suit

  Below is an article published by The Straits Times: The conference was announced last week [May 2009] following the decision by the presiding judge in the US Southern District Court in New...

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Turn The Heat Up On Shell

 On what was supposed to mark the start of the Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Shell trial in New York City, over a hundred people showed up in front of the courthouse to bring attention to this historic case. ...

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Ogoni: Shell Pressed on Nigerian Practices

  Below is an article published by One World:As Shell prepares to stand trial for complicity in the murder of nine activists who opposed the oil giant's environmental and health impact on...

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Ogoni: Shell Faces Trial

  Below is an article published by Bloomberg Press: A group of Nigerians suing Royal Dutch Shell Plc over government attacks and killings in their country will try to do the unprecedented --...

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Ogoni: Ken Saro-Wiwa Remembered

  Below is an article published by The Huffington Post : On April 20th [2009], seven outstanding environmental leaders were awarded the 2009 Goldman Prize - the "Nobel Prize of the environmental...

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Ogoni: President Approves Clean-Up

   Below is an article published by Punch:President Umaru Yar’Adua, on Thursday [16 April 2009], approved the immediate commencement of the technical study of all the locations affected...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Elect New President

   Below is a Press Release from MSOP:OGONI, Oil and Gas rich indigenous people in southern Nigeria elects new MOSOP President/SpokesmanIn Nigeria, MOSOP [Movement for the Survival of the...

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Ogoni: OSF Publishes Magazine

    Below is an article written by UNPO:The Ogoni Solidarity Forum, a group of Ogoni refugees and émigrés living in Cape Town, South Africa, has released their Winter/Spring...

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Ogoni: Criticism at lack of representation in...

   Below is a statement issued by: Punch  The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People has protested the absence of its people in key positions in federal agencies. President...

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Ogoni: Delta problem must be addressed

 Below is an article published by: Vanguard Delta state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and the President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) Mr. Ledum Mitee have said that Nigeria...

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EES Week 6: Curse of the Black Gold

  By Andrew Swan       Summer in Port Harcourt, the capital of Nigeria’s Rivers State, is a sticky, sweaty season.  Humidity reaches almost ninety per cent and the...

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Ogoni: Shell Denied Involvement In Ogoni Crisis...

     Below is an article published by: Vanguard Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has said it was not in any way involved in the reported crisis in K-Dere community in Ogoni...

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Ogoni: Shell to Remain ‘Silent Partner’

  Below is an article published by: The Punch Oil major, Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited, will continue operating in Ogoniland in Rivers State as a “silent” partner to...

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Ogoni: Protest Against Shell To Return

  Below is an article published by: Daily Sun The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has protested alleged moves by oil giants, Shell, to return to Ogoniland despite the Federal...

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Ogoni: Gas Flaring Continues Despite Damage Caused...

  Below is an article published by the BBC: The latest deadline set by the Nigerian government to stop flaring natural gas from oil wells in the Niger Delta has passed without stopping the...

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Ogoni: Oil Exploration May Resume

 Below is an article published by AllAfrica.com: Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State has advocated for oil companies to be allowed to resume exploration activities in Ogoni land after years...

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Ogoni: UNPO GA President Calls for Fairness

   Below is an article published by The Punch: A former Director-General of the defunct Nigeria Security Organisation, Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, and the Chairman of the Niger Delta Technical Committee,...

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UPR: Nigeria Rights Violations Exposed by UNP...

  Findings from a UNPO report have been included in the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Nigeria.The UPR uses submissions from a variety of civil society members,...

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Ogoni: Oil Companies Face Trial

  Below is an article published by Indystar.com: If IkpoBari Senewo had not been conducting an exam for his secondary school students in the Niger Delta village of Bane one afternoon in May...

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Ogoni: Tensions Simmer

  Below is an article published by The Daily Triumph: Reuben Onyewikpe Loveday, a farmer in the depressed swamplands of the Niger River Delta, nostalgically remembers the days when he could make...

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Ogoni: Soldiers Sack Ogoni Community

    Below is an article published by Scoop World. Soldiers suspected to be operatives of the Joint military Task Force (JTF) in the early hours of Tuesday, December 2 [2008], allegedly...

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Ogoni: Mittee Urges Discussion

   Below is an article published by allafrica.com: Aso Rock has been notified that the choice of an oil firm to succeed Shell in Ogoni would be a joint decision between the government...

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Ogoni: Activists Rename Street After Victim of...

Below is an article published by Indymedia UK Surprisingly, many streets in Dublin, capital of the Republic of Ireland, are still named after heroes of monarchy and colonialism. Adelaide Road, which is...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Urges Apology From Former Official...

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Ogoni:Interview with Ledum Mitee

  Below is an article published by the Vanguard:Mr Ledum Mittee is the chairman of the Niger Delta Technical Committee charged with reviewing reports on the region with a view to coming out with...

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Shell to Go to Trial for Complicity in Death of...

Below is an article written by Earth Rights International:  Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York set a trial date of February 9, 2009 for a human rights...

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Ogoni: Shell to Face US Court

  Below is an article published by USA Today:Victims of the Nigerian government's violent 1990s-era crackdown on residents of oil-rich lands where Royal Dutch Shell had drilling operations...

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Ogoni: Technical Committee Crucial to Delta S...

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Ogoni: Committee to Advise Federal Government

Three weeks after its inauguration by Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan, the Niger Delta Technical Committee will next week commence its plenary session in Abuja.  The committee, headed by Mr....

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Ogoni: Life after Shell

Below is a press release published by International Crisis Group: The peace process in Ogoni land – a major test for efforts to bring stability to the oil-rich Niger Delta – is likely...

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Ogoni: Shell and the Development of Nigeria

 Below is an article published by Vanguard : I have read The Guardian interview with the Managing Director of Shell, Nigeria [1 September 2008] with dread and misgivings.  It would be disingenuous...

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Ogoni: Why We Created N’Delta Ministry

Below is an article published by: This Day Online, African views on local news President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua yesterday shed more light on the Ministry of Niger Delta, which he established two days...

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Ogoni: “We'll Set Targets For Government”

Below is an article published by The Vanguard :Chairman of the Technical Committee on the Review of Niger Delta Reports, Mr. Ledum Mitee, has said his committee will come out with a report setting clear,...

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Nigeria: September News and Analysis from Niger...

London-based Stakeholder Democracy Network has published its September 2008 report on the Niger Delta. The report discusses the latest security situation, news of arrests and kidnappings, and analysis...

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Ogoni: Fresh Start for Nigerian Oil Activists?...

Below is an article published by BBC News:Cherie Kanaan's family live only yards away from an oil well in Ogoniland in the heart of Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta.For the past 13 years, no oil...

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Ogoni: Footballer’s Brother Kidnapped

With the police admitting no clues yet on the kidnapping of the elder brother of Nigerian football star Joseph Yobo, his family has appealed to the kidnappers to free their son unharmed. A spokesman for...

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Ogoniland: We’ve not been asked to leave - ...

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), whose activities in Ogoniland in Rivers State have been in abeyance for the past 15 years, thus prompting the Federal Government to...

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Ogoni: Peace Summit Rejected

Below is an article published by afrol News: The Nigerian government's plan to bolster peace in the conflict-plagued region of the Niger Delta has failed with South-South leaders rejecting talks...

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Ogoni: Oil Companies Eager to enter Ogoniland

Russian oil giant, Gazprom, is among several foreign companies jostling to replace Royal Dutch Shell in Ogoniland following Federal Government's decision to award the oil fields to another company. Thisday...

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Shell Out of Ogoniland

 In a statement released by Ledum Mitee, President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni people (MOSOP), and President of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), he welcomes...

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Ogoni: Nigeria Ousts Shell

His Excellency, President Musa Yar Adua President, Federal Republic of Nigeria Aso Rock, Abuja Through: His Excellency, Rt. Hon Chibuike Amaechi Executive Governor, Rivers State Government House,...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Applauds Federal Government Deci...

 MOSOP PRESS STATEMENT ON FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S DECISION ON SHELL ACTIVITIES IN OGONI The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has today commended the Federal Government’s...

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Ogoni: One Polluter Out Next Polluter In

Oil fields abandoned by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Ogoniland in the Niger Delta 15 years ago will be given to oil company this year, President Umaru Yar'Adua said on Wednesday [4 June 2008]. Shell...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Calls For Prosecutions Over Gas ...

Below is an article published by The Tide: The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), has called on the federal government to prosecute oil companies for the deaths and health hazards...

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Ogoni: Location of Oilfield in Dispute

Below is an article published by the Nigerian Tribune: A statement by the spokesman of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Mr. Precious Okolobo, on Rhythm...

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Ogoni: Reports of Shell Moving in on Ogoni Oil...

Below is an article published by the Nigerian Tribune: The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has raised the alarm over moves of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to return...

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Ogoni: Education Must Get More Federal Attent...

Below is an article published by the Tide Online: The Ogoni Kingdom in Rivers State on Wednesday [9 April 2008] called for an urgent intervention by the Federal Government in the educational system...

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Ogoni: Shell Arrogantly Returns to Ogoniland

Below is an article written by Biola Azeez published by Tribune: In the past few days, the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and the Ogoni face-off reappeared in the media with accusations...

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Ogoni: Shell Arrogantly Returns to Ogoniland

Below is an article written by Biola Azeez published by Tribune: In the past few days, the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and the Ogoni face-off reappeared in the media with accusations...

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Ogoni: The Rewards of Nonviolence

The Ogoni model of political protest and engagement is being held up as a model for all in Nigeria’s restless River Delta region. Below is an article published by The Tide Online: A former member...

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Ogoni: A Deadline Slips and the Flaring Cont...

Gas flaring in the Niger Delta continues despite a 1 January 2008 moratorium, but can the environment stands any more delays? Below is an article written by Sam Olukoya and published by Terraviva Africa: Gas...

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Ogoni: Is A New Bank The Answer to Delta Woe...

Calls have been renewed for a development bank for oil revenues – but will it be a break from its corrupt predecessors? Below is an article written by Chioma Gabriel of the Vanguard: Senator David...

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Ogoni: MOSOP President Honored

UNPO General Assembly President and MOSOP President, Mr Ledum Mitee has been honored with membership of the Order of the Niger. Below is an article published by Lucky Nwankwere of the Sun News: Senate...

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Shell Continue Harassment of The Ogoni In The...

Following a story first reported on this website earlier this week, UNPO President Ledum Mitee of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) comments on the situation in Ogoniland. Below...

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Ogoni: Nonviolent Protest March Against Shel...

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) staged a non-violent protest march against Shell’s activities and the environmental destruction of Ogoniland after yet another oil spill...

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Ogoni: Oil Pollution Still Blights Niger Delt...

As local people struggle to contain oil pollution, Bari-Karap Moi of Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) questions the aptitude of contractors used by the oil companies. Below is an...

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Ogoni: Nonviolence Reiterated After Statement...

MOSOP has had to reiterate its firm historic adherence to nonviolence following erroneous statements from the Rivers State military. Below is an article published by the Tide Online: The Chairman of...

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Ogoni: Changing Attitude of Oil Companies

Oil companies should engage in a more sustainable form of development that would moreover improve the livelihood of the Ogoni people in the impoverished Niger Delta. Below is an article written by Ejiofor...

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Ogoni: In the Shadow of a Saint

In a recent episode of Witness, the life, work, and legacy of Ken Saro-Wiwa is documented from the unique viewpoint of his son. Below is an article published by Al Jazeera: In the early 1990s, the little-known,...

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Ogoni: Gas-flaring To Halt In Niger Delta

A landmark ruling should alleviate some of the environmental degradation that has decimated the Niger Delta over recent decades. Below is an article written by Jim Lobe and published by the Inter Press...

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Ogoni: Reiterate Adherence to Non-Violence

Speaking at an event marking Ogoni Day 2008, the Ogoni won praise for their continued commitment to non-violence.  This has been in the face of almost two decades of intractability on the part of...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Marks Ogoni Day

Amid prayer and fasting, the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) reiterated its non-violent mission to achieve federal self-determination for the Ogoni people. Below is an article published...

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Ogoni: Protest at Shell Headquarters

Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) marched to Shell Headquarters for the first time in three years opposing the abuses of the oil company in Ogoniland. Below is an excerpt press released...

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Ogoni: Plagued by Black Gold

The oil resource region of Niger Delta is baring the consequences of its rich grounds as the situation is profiting the government and causing further environmental damages to the already impoverished...

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Ogoni: 12 Years On, Saro-Wiwa Still Remember...

Executed 12 years ago by the Nigerian state, the legacy of environmental and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa lives on amongst the Ogoni people.  Below is an article published by The Tide: Twelve...

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Ogoni: UN To Investigate Oil Pollution

The UN has announced its intention to send a team to assess the extent of the damage caused by oil exploration and production in Ogoniland that had been conducted in the second half of the 20th century...

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Ogoni: Anita Roddick Remembered

Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop and long-time Ogoni activist, especially on the case of Ken Saro-Wiwa, is remembered by Ledum Mitee on behalf of the Ogoni people. Below is a statement published...

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Ogoni: The Delta’s Deteriorating Situation

As the abduction of a British toddler brings media attention to the Niger Delta crisis, Ogoni leader and UNPO president L. Mitee calls for action to deal with the region’s deteriorating situation. Below...

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Ogoni: Still No Compensation

As talks resume between Shell and the Nigerian government planning for oil production in Ogoniland, the Ogoni remain excluded from negotiations and frustrated in their calls for compensation. Below are...

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Ogoni: Nigeria Opposes Indigenous Rights Dec...

Nigeria has opposed the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, citing concerns about its implications for the rights of its many  indigenous populations.  Below is an article...

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Ogoni: Shell Optimistic on Return to Ogonila...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC is "cautiously optimistic" over its chances to reconcile with locals and return to Ogoniland in Nigeria, Shell Nigeria's chairman said in its annual sustainability report. Below...

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Ogoni: Politicians Urge Peace

Following disappointing and flawed regional elections, politicians have urged a commitment to peace from all political actors in River State. Below is an article published by The Tide Online: Against...

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Ogoni: UNEP to Begin Clean Up Operations

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is preparing for its massive clean up operation in the Niger Delta. Reports suggest that the Ogoni are satisfied with the plans for phase one. Below is...

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Ogoni: Support for UNPO Earth Day Celebratio...

The Hague, 23 April 2007 - On Saturday 21 April 2007 UNPO marked its annual celebration of Earth Day with a colourful information stand in the centre of The Hague. The event was an opportunity to inform...

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Ogoni: No Oil Benefits for Locals

Below is an article published by Al Jazeera: Billions of dollars of oil money are wasted every year in Nigeria due to fires, spillage, robbery and corruption. Nigeria's anti-corruption agency estimates...

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Ogoni: Corrupt Institutions in Nigeria

Below is an article published by Vanguard: Being a statement jointly issued by Prof. Wole Soyinka - Democratic Front for a Peoples Federation (DFPF), Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu - All Progressive...

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Ogoni: Environmental Concerns Highlighted

Below is an extract from a written statement submitted to the Fourth Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by the International Federation for the Protection of the Rights of Ethnic,...

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Ogoni: Interview with UNPO President

Below are excerpts from an interview with UNPO President Ledum Mitee published by Vanguard. OGONI is an oil rich community in the Niger Delta. The area has been struggling for improved living standard...

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Ogoni: Oil Exploitation in the Niger Delta

Below is press release, published by Emory University Invited lecturer Ledum Mitee President of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO – The Hague) and President of the Movement...

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Ogoni: Community Members Awarded

Below is an article published by The Tide Online: A non-governmental organisation involved in community development and human capital investment in Ogoni land, Bonnadum Foundation, has honoured 24 distinguished...

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Ogoni: Model for Social Action

(…) One of the most inspiring recent examples of social change has been the recent victory of the Ogoni women of Nigeria against the petrol multinational Shell. The extraction of oil usually involves...

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Ogoni: A Deprived Community

Below is an extract from an article written by Dum-ale Tanee, the regional coordinator of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) in Kansas City, and published in the Nigerian Tribune; It...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Will Continue Dialogue, President...

Movement for the Survival of Ogoni (MOSOP) President, Mr Ledum Mitee, has said they will continue to embrace dialogue in the struggle to ensure a clean environment and better welfare. Mitee, who spoke...

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Ogoni: Buhari Pledges to Address Niger-Delta...

The All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) Presidential Candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari has promised to address the neglect and marginalization of oil-producing communities of the Niger-Delta. Buhari,...

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Ogoni: MOSOP to Resume Protest in February

Following federal government's failure to practically address issues facing the Ogoni people in Rivers state, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) is set to resume active agitation...

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Ogoni: Paying the Price for Resistance

OKERENKOKO, Nigeria -- This riverside village along remote creeks of the Niger Delta is a base for a violent insurgency that has forced a 20 percent to 25 percent cut in Nigeria's oil output - the fifth-biggest...

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UNPO President Addresses Conference on “Democracy...

Statement by Mr. Ledum Mitee, President of UNPO   Democracy Promotion: Initiatives for Institutional Reform Inside And Outside The European Union European Parliament, Brussels 6 – 7...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Decries Killings in Rivers

Below is an article published on the Vanguard Website: Port Harcourt—Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People has urged youths in the region to shun monetary inducement from politicians to indulge...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Advises on Non-Violence

Port Harcourt— OGONI have been told to maintain their non-violent in their struggle for a better society. National president, Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, (MOSOP) Mr. Ledum Mitee who...

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Statement by Ledum Mitee, On Ogoni Heroes’...

STATEMENT BY LEDUM MITEE, MOSOP PRESIDENT, ON OGONI HEROES’ DAY, 10TH NOVEMBER 2006 On this day for several years we have been commemorating the fall of the Ogoni 13 whose lives were lost in a struggle...

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Ogoni: UN Team Assesses Oil Spills in Niger ...

A team of oil spill experts from the United Nations Environment Program is in Ogoni, southern Nigeria, to assess the impact of oil pollution on the region.  The visit comes at a time of new revelations...

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Ogoni: Kukah Expressed Gratitude for Confidence...

The presidential facilitator of the Ogoni Peace Process, Rev. Fr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, has expressed gratitude to the people of Ogoni for the confidence reposed in him. Rev. Fr. Kukah stated this at...

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Ogoni: UN team: No Going Back on Clean-up

The United Nations Regional Director in charge of Africa, Dr Sekou Toure, says the visiting technical team of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) saddled with the responsibility of cleaning...

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Ogoni: UNPO VIII GA Adopts Resolution on Situation...

A central component of the VIII UNPO General Assembly, held this year in Taipei, Taiwan, from 27 – 29 October, was to facilitate the discussion of specific problems facing UNPO Members, as well as...

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Ogoni: UN Environment Experts to Explore Ogoni...

Officials of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) would arrive in Ogoniland today for a five-day exploration of the environmental situation of the area. The visit of UNEP is in response to...

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Ogoni: Shell to Extinguish Fire

Abuka- Shell arrived in Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta Saturday to extinguish a fire burning at its wellhead in Yorla since August 14 and not to resume oil production, a statment said. Shell vacated...

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Ogoni: Niger Delta Bears Brunt after Fifty Years...

Up to 1.5 million tons of oil, 50 times the pollution unleashed in the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster, has been spilt in the ecologically precious Niger Delta over the past 50 years, it was revealed yesterday....

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Ogoni: MOSOP Alerts of Plot

Below is a press release issued by the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP): As Ogonis prepare to mark the anniversary of some of their heroes who were executed on 10th of November 1995,...

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Ogoni: Another Oil Firm Wanted

OGONI in Rivers State have called on the Federal Government to initiate a process for another oil firm other than Shell to begin oil exploration activities in their areas. A statement issued on the platform...

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Ogoni: Shell Assures on Yorla Well Fire

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) has reassured the neighbouring Ogoni communities, the Rivers State Government and the general public that it was doing everything possible to put...

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Ogoni: Oil Well Fire Rages in, 42 Days After

Forty-two days after a fire outbreak on the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) operated Yorla Well-13, it has not abated despite dire consequences for the people and the environment. Vanguard found...

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Ogoni:Educate Masses on Need for Good Leadership,...

Youths in Ogoni Kingdom have been told to educate the masses on the need to elect quality leaders into position of authority in the next political era. This advice was given in Port Harcourt by a Commissioner...

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Ogoni: Julius Berger Pulls Out of Niger Delta

The nation's leading construction firm, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, has commenced its exit from the Niger Delta area following the kidnap of one of its expatriate staff by militant youths operating in the...

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Ogoni: Shell

Fire has broken out on Yorla Well Head 13, belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Kpean community of Khana Local Government Area, Rivers State. Contacted, the Movement for the Survival...

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Ogoni: Oral Intervention at the Working Group...

At the 12th Session of the Working Group on Minorities, MOSOP highlights the situation for the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, calls for a conditional moratorium on oil production and UNHCR...

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Ogoni: Declaration by Representatives of Oil...

On 9 August 2006 a number of representatives from oil-bearing communities gathered to outline strategies and issued a common declaration, pledging to use peaceful means to defend and protect rights to...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Mobilises Against Oil Companies

The MOSOP President, Mr. Ledum Mitte, said on Wednesday in Port Harcourt while addressing a gathering of oil-bearing communities in Rivers State to mark the occasion of the World Indigenous Peoples Day...

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Ogoni: Oral Intervention on the Human Rights...

Legborsi Saro Pyagbara from the the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), presented a statement on the Human Rights Situation of the Ogoni, Member of UNPO, at the UNWGIP in Geneva. Sub-Commission...

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Ogoni: Of Oil, Presidency and Niger Delta

By PROF. TUNDE BABAWALE Oil has brought mixed blessings to Nigeria. For the majority ethnic groups, especially those living in the urban areas, oil has brought about unparalleled prosperity and increased...

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Ogoni: Shell To Clean Up Oil Spills in Ogoni...

President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) would be involved in the cleaning of oil polluted sites in Ogoni land in Rivers State. Speaking during a courtesy...

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Ogoni: Spate of Bombings Worries MOSOP

The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has expressed concern over the spate of bomb attacks on residences of political office holders in Rivers State, warning that it would be difficult...

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Ogoni: Saro-Wiwa Takes Up Hanged Father

A decade after Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged by Nigeria's military junta during his struggle for the rights of the Ogoni people, his son says he is ready to take up his father's legacy - in the heart of government. Ken...

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Ogoni: Mosop Flays Insecurity in Rivers Stat...

The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has flayed the rising insecurity in Rivers State and accused the security agencies of lacking the will to check crime and criminal activities. The...

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Title: Ogoni: Environmental Crises in Niger ...

Since 1956 when oil was first discovered at Oloibiri, the community and indeed the entire Niger-Delta region have been exposed to several forms of environmental abuse. Their concerns, as articulated...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Condemns Current Provocative Actions...

Press Release, 14 April 2006 - Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP). MOSOP today reacted by strongly condemning current actions of Shell in Ogoni, which are undoubtedly aimed...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Condemns Violent Agitation

Leader of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Mr Ledum Mitee, has said violence is not ideal in agitation for peoples rights. Mitee said in Port Harcourt, that violence was not...

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Ogoni: Oil Spill Upsets The Ogoni People

A minority rights group fighting environmental pollution in Nigeria's delta region on Wednesday reported an oil spill from a damaged pipeline owned by Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell. ...

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Ogoni: Another Oil Spill in Ogoniland

As the Federal Government continues to perfect moves for the return of Anglo Dutch oil giant, Shell, to Ogoniland in Rivers State, to resume oil exploitation activities, an oil spill from one of...

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Ogoni: The Niger Delta Crisis

Extract from article written by Fubara Miebaka Collins,Port Harcourt. The Niger Delta covers about 70,000 square kilometer and accounts for 7.5 per cent of total land mass in Nigeria, which extends...

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Ogoni: Federal Government Deploy Troops in Oil-Rich...

On 11 March the Federal Government began a massive deployment of troops in the troubled oil-rich city of Warri, suggesting that negotiations between the government and the Niger Delta youth militants,...

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Ogoni: MOSOP Wants Ogoni Literature Restored in...

Movement for Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has re-opened the battle to save its language from extinction and has called on the Rivers State Government to restore Ogoni literature in their...

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Ogoni: Shell Revamps 36 Ogoni Oil Spill Sites

Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), says it has completed remediation work in 36 oil spill sites out of 87 such sites identified in Ogoniland, Rivers State. Shell...

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Ogoni: Death Toll from Attack on Nigerian Shell...

A total of 13 persons were confirmed dead Wednesday from Sunday's attack on the Shell Petroleum Development Company's 'Benisede' flow station in Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta. A doctor at...

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Ogoni: Nigeria Attacks Force Shell Out

Various factions in Nigeria were close to achieving their aim of paralyzing oil production in the Niger Delta after Shell made a partial evacuation of 326 oil workers yesterday following attacks...

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Ogoni: Shell Evacuates Nigeria Workers

Shell has withdrawn about 330 workers from four sites in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria following a gunboat attack. Gunmen fought Nigerian soldiers on Sunday as they overran the Benisede pumping...

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Ogoni: Remarks on Reconciliation by Ledum Mit...

President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Ledum Mitee has warned that the ongoing reconciliation efforts by the Federal Government between Ogoni and Shell can only be...

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Ogoni: Rivers State Government Earmarks N2bn for...

Rivers State Government said it has earmarked N2 billion worth of projects for the four Local Government Areas of Ogoniland. This came as the Federal Government Reconcilator, Rev Father Mathew Kukah...

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Ogoni: Ogonis to Position for Reconciliation

The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Ogoni/Shell Reconciliation, Rev Fr Matthew Kukah, has called on the people of Ogoni to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the reconciliation...

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Ogoni: Kagote Comes Alive After 12 Years

A socio-cultural organisation in Ogoniland, “Kagote”, which gave birth to the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) held its first annual convention yesterday after 12 years. ...

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Ogoni: Oil Companies and the Niger Delta

Government has reaped an estimated US$280 billion from oil in the past 30 years; the Delta communities have seen precious little of the revenue. But analysts say the average Nigerian has little...

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Ogoni: Niger Delta Would Not Back Down on 2007...

Non-violent campaigner, Von Kemedy, has said that last Friday’s impeachment of the Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, will neither intimidate the Ijaw people nor the Niger...

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Ogoni: Interview with the Son of Ken Saro-Wiw...

Interview Ken Wiwa In the name of my father Ten years ago the writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian government. In this moving memoir, his son Ken Wiwa talks about ...

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Ogoni: Judge Orders Gas Flaring to Stop Immed...

In a breakthrough for environmental and human rights activists, a federal high court judge in Nigeria has ruled that gas flaring in the Niger Delta violates the rights to life, health and dignity...

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Ogoni: UNPO General Secretary Marino Busdachin...

Former African Secretary of the British Council of Churches and Methodist Church, Rev. Brian Brown, has warned the Ogoni people against any form of despair in their struggle for resource control....

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Ogoni: See Rare Peace Chance in Nigeria Oil D...

Competing interests in Nigeria's oil delta have an opportunity to defuse tensions that threaten peace, security and oil production, the successor to executed activist Ken Saro-Wiwa said on Wednesday....

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Ogoni: World Council of Churches Appeals Nigerian...

Untitled Document Geneva, 7 June 2005 Your Excellency, The World Council of Churches is delighted at the appointment of Father Mathew Hassan Kukah by the Federal Government of Nigeria...

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Ogoni to Start Talks with Nigerian Government

Untitled Document Press statement of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) “We welcome the efforts being by the Federal government through the announcement...

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Ogoni: Nigerian Bulldozers Smash Shanty Town in...

Untitled Document Government bulldozers rolled in to smash hundreds of homes and a church in a Nigerian shanty town backing onto a site run by the Italian oil giant Agip on Wednesday,...

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Ogoni: Abuse of Agip Shanty Town Residents

Untitled Document Human Rights groups in Port Harcourt are appalled at the latest assault on members of the Agip waterside shanty town and have called for the State government and...

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Ogoni: Demolition of the Agip Shanty Towns

Untitled Document Human Rights groups in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, have called on the Rivers State government and Agip to act to immediately suspend the demolition of the shanty town...

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Ogoni: Shell and Police instigate violence in...

Untitled Document The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People has today protested the unprecedented posting of Mobile Police to a Shell facility in Ogoni and their partisan...

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Ogoni: Movement for the survival of the Ogoni...

Untitled Document Movement for the survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has accused Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and the police for instigating violence in Ogoni land. ...

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Ogoni: Harassment and Intimidation of Activists...

Untitled Document Commissioner of Police Rivers State Police Headquarters Port Harcourt Rivers State Nigeria August 10, 2004 Dear Commissioner...

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Ogoni: what after the abrogation of the oil dichotomy...

Ledum Mitee, the leader of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSIOP) spoke on what should be done with the abrogation of the oil dichotomy bill. There are a whole lot of misconceptions,...

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MOSOP reacting to deterioration of democracy in...

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), in a press release dated 14 March 2002, expressed urgent reservations and fears that the state of democracy in Nigeria is showing signs...

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Self-determination: A rural Ogoni woman's...

By Ada Wikina Far from the city lights, unaware of the hustle and bustle of urban living, Lebia (real name withheld) is a typical rural Ogoni woman. Life in recent times is still a far cry from...

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Ogoni: Renewed tensions in Ogoni

It was reported recently that Shell participated in an investigation team visit to a major oil spill at the Yorla oil field in the Ogoni region. The team comprised of Nigerian Department of Petroleum...

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Ogoni human rights hearing in Port Harcourt

Participating at the Oputa Human Rights Investigation Panel hearings in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, MOSOP has called on the Nigerian military to accept responsibility for grave human rights violations...

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2009 - 2010 Project: Preserving The Tradition...

Ongoing 2009-2010  The Ogoni and Mapuche project of 'Preserving Tradition' was designed by UNPO to protect and empower children and young people by promoting their right to...

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