Ogoni
23 Feb
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers State chapter, has chided the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, for advising the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to look for somebody from the Ogoni extraction to take over from Governor Siminialayi Fubara in 2027.
23 Jan
United States-based Ogoni advocacy groups, Centre for Democracy, Human Rights, and Anti-Corruption (CDHRAC) and the National Union of Ogoni Students (NUOS) International USA, have called for a referendum among Ogoni people, home and abroad, to determine whether oil production can resume in Ogoniland or not after addressing the demands that led to the stoppage of…
12 Jan
Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has said that the commencement of oil production in Ogoni would trigger its development proposals that require commitment to invest proportion of resources extracted from the land into infrastructure development.
22 Dec
Only Talbot imagined partial Ijaw connection - initially: “The people of Bonny … are a mixed Ibo-Ijaw race, the Ibo portion is said to have come down from Azumini several hundred years ago
12 Oct 2023
Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, famously known as Ken Saro-Wiwa, would have been 82 on Tuesday, October 10. My lionized friend packed too many lifetimes into one life.
30 Aug 2023
Unknown gunmen have killed two youths who were assigned to provide security and surveillance of oil pipelines at the recent site of an oil spill in the Ogoni community in Gokana local government area of Rivers state. The victims' names were given as follows: Wisdom Pilla and Barioma Dutu, while five oil pipeline monitors sustained…
13 Aug 2023
Communities of Ogoni ethnic nationality in Rivers State have decried the disappearance of over nine children in the area. This was even as armed men suspected to be kidnappers on Friday evening killed a prominent leader of Neke Odenigbo-Nike community in Isi-Uzo Local Council
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