Year: 2013
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Shell Offers to Pay N7.5B to Bodo Claimants
The Shell Petroleum Development Company has offered to pay N7.5 billion to the indigenes of Bodo community, Gokana Local Government…
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Shell to Negotiate With Bodo Community Over Oil Spill
Shell is to begin compensation talks with thousands of Nigerian villagers who say their livelihoods were ruined by two massive…
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Ogoni Struggle Propels Democracy in Nigeria – Hon Ake
As Non-governmental Organization, Corporate, bodies, individual and government have continued to proffer solution for sustainable peace in the Niger Delta,…
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N98.3bn lost in 20% crude oil allocation to NNPC
No less than N98.3 billion was lost by Nigeria between 2009 and 2011 in the 20 percent crude oil allocation…
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Ken Saro-Wiwa: The Vision of a Writer And the Praxis of Progress
Human progress, according to Martin Luther King, Jr., is “neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice…
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HYPREP Scandal: Corruption and Fraud Rock Joy Nunieh-led Ogoni Project
The ‘Esther of Ogoniland’ is making headlines yet again! Months after miraculously rising from the dead (while three other allegedly…
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18 Years After: Eminent Nigerians want Saro-Wiwa Immortalised
If the late environmental rights activist and leader of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, Ken Saro-Wiwa…
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20 Years of Fighting Environmental Crimes By Nnimmo Bassey
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this gathering marking the 20th anniversary of the Environmental Rights…
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Host Communities Should Co-Sign FG-Oil Company Joint Venture Agreements – Ledum Mittee
Host communities should become parties to joint venture agreements between the federal government and oil companies. This view was expressed…
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Ban the Use of Ogoni Surface and Underground Waters – UNEP
The United Nations Environment Progaramme (UNEP) has called for the placement of a total ban on the use of both…
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