“Why Biafrans are angry with Nigeria – a dialogue with DSS operative by Onyema Uche

“Niger Deltans are beginning to ask questions on who and why Adaka Boro was murdered. They are also aware that Ken Saro Wiwa who believed in the friendship with the North was mercilessly murdered by the same people he fought for. Odi was wiped out in the worst genocide in our time and no one […]

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A Living Memorial for Deadened Memories By Nnimmo Bassey

The Bus, a sculptural memorial in honour of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbooko, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate, Baribor Bera, Barinem Kiobel, and John Kpuine was shipped to Nigeria from the United Kingdom by Platform. On arrival in Nigeria it was seized by the Nigeria Customs since 8th September 2015 on the reported […]

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Ken Saro-Wiwa 20 years on: Niger Delta still blighted by oil spills by Mark Dummett

The sad truth is that twenty years after the execution of writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigeria’s oil producing region remains a blighted land. There are hundreds of oil spills in the Niger Delta every year and Shell and the other oil companies operating there are still not doing enough to either prevent spills, […]

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Nigeria govt should compel Shell to pay full cost of Ogoni clean-up recommended by UNEP – ERA/FoEN, others

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) and other groups across the world under the aegis of Friends of the Earth International have demanded justice for Ogoni people asking the Nigerian government to compel Shell to pay the full cost of cleaning up recommended by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). The call […]

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Niger Delta: Imperative of intellectual militancy

Bobson Gbinije: “The fact that man knows right from wrong Proves his intellectual superiority to the Other creatures; but the fact that he can Do wrong proves his moral inferiority To any creature that cannot.” – Mark Twain The anecdotal portrayal of Greek mythologist and substantiated by an Urhobo adage, explicitly posits that, “When a […]

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