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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Gas flaring is the obnoxious practice of burning natural gas associated with crude oil extraction. To use the words of Joseph Croft of Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) in the excellent environmental documentary film No Where to Run, the gas flares are like giant cigarettes attached to communities. Some flares are located horizontally, at ground level, […]
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Let us say The BUS was the capstone for a missing grave; for the missing graves. When the Nigerian state judicially murdered Ken Saro-Wiwa, Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbooko, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate, Baribor Bera, Barinem Kiobel, and John Kpuine and viciously desecrated their bodies with acid, the lords of the gulag never imagined […]
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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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Welcome words by Nnimmo Bassey, Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, at the Workshop On Building Community Resilience Towards the Implementation of The UNEP Report, held on 23 October 2015 at Ken Saro-Wiwa Peace Centre, Bori, Ogoni, Rivers State, Nigeria A Garden of Hope was planted at the Ken Saro-Wiwa Peace Centre, the premises of […]
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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has hailed the Federal Government for approving a $10 million take-off grant for the implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Assessment on Ogoniland and reconstituting the Governing Council of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project (HYPREP), saying both moves indicated the current administration is on […]
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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has raised the alarm following reports that Shell may be attempting to thwart the recommended cleanup of Ogoniland through a deal with a local company called Belema Oil. A statement by ERA head of media, Mr. Phillip Jakpor said, Shell was said to have sold its […]
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By Oluwafunmilayo Oyatogun, Media officer, HOMEF Monday August 4th, 2014 marks the 3rd year anniversary of the damning report of the assessment of Ogoni environment conducted by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) at the request of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The comprehensive report unambiguously confirmed our fears and anxiety that Ogoniland was a […]
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