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COP27: Activists remember Ken Saro-Wiwa and other martyrs of extractivism

While he was alive, Ken Saro-Wiwa said: “We are going to demand our rights peacefully, non-violently and we shall win. I tell you this,...

Exoneration, not a pardon for Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni 8

On October 22, 2021, a selected group of Ogoni leaders attended a parley at State House with President Muhammadu Buhari. Among other issues, the President...

Ogoni women, Saro-Wiwa’s legacy and the clean-up process

No fewer than 411,803. A landmass spanning 1,050-square-kilometres. Some, if not most of them, in huts and mud houses for homes, without light and...

Govt urged to pay polluted Ogoniland ecological debt

The Nigeria government has been asked to pay the Ogoni nation in the Niger Delta region an ecological debt for decades of pollution, neglect...

Laureates petition Buhari, urge govt to exonerate Ken Saro-Wiwa, eight other Ogoni leaders

Twenty-seven Right Livelihood Laureates sent a petition to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, November 10, 2020, demanding the exoneration of 1994 Right Livelihood...

25 years after Ogoni 9: A legacy of environmental justice struggles – ERA

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) marks the 25th anniversary of the killing of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his Ogoni eight activist...

Unforgettable injustice in Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni 8 murder – Owens Wiwa

Martin Luther King, Jr., reminded us that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”  Twenty-five years ago, this November,...

After 25 years, HOMEF demands exoneration of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni leaders

The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has called for the exoneration of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the eight Ogoni leaders (Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo,...

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Kofi Adu Domfeh: Amidst the heatwaves arrive the rainstorm and floods

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Plastic pollution: Manufacturers urged to design products with recyclable, biodegradable materials

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Why Bonga is such a success – Shell director

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