updated Fri. August 2, 2024
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Royal Dutch Shell plc .com
April 4, 2018
We bemoan government silence as state instruments are being continuously used in the suppression of our people disregarding their precarious conditions and severe trauma associated with living in polluted Ogoniland. We are shocked that even in a supposedly democratic setting, our own governmentÃâà...
Guardian (blog)
April 2, 2018
By the end of 1992, Ogoni production was some 28,000 barrels of oil a day, about three per cent of SPDC's total production, but SPDC stopped production in Ogoni land and withdrew from the area in 1993 after violence against its staff and action targeting the company's facilities due to massive crude oilÃâà...
Vanguard
April 2, 2018
... late Gideon Barika, who was APC Chairman for Ward 9, Bunu in Tai Local Government Area, said: “More importantly, I am here to let people know that APC in Tai cannot die and to tell our people that the dream of Rivers people and the dream of Ogoni people in the politics of Rivers State can also not die.
Vanguard
March 26, 2018
He said: “The issue of the delay in the cleanup of Ogoni land, running to two years now, is as a result of the nature of what the project looks like scientifically. Africa and Nigeria, specifically is not used to remediation projects. It has not been done before in Nigeria. “In terms of remediation, which is differentÃâà...
Vanguard
March 24, 2018
In an interview with Vanguard in Abuja, Emuh, who is also the National Chairman of Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, HOSTCOM, said the Ogoni cleanup project was unlike infrastructure projects where contractors quote, and were then mobilized to site. Emuh, who is representing oilÃâà...
Vanguard
March 18, 2018
“MOSOP wants to use this opportunity to alert the world of what is clearly a shell/state-sponsored genocide in Ogoniland. We are concerned that Shell and the government of Nigeria are doing little or nothing about the restoration of Ogoniland and the immediate provision of water for the people even asÃâà...
Vanguard
March 12, 2018
He said: “The attention of MOSOP has been drawn to a new plan by the Federal Government to build a maximum security prison facility with modern cemetery in Ogoniland. “This move, MOSOP authoritatively gathered, had been concluded by the Federal Ministry of Interior and will involve the seizure ofÃâà...
The Nation Newspaper
March 10, 2018
The President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Chief Legborsi Pyagbara, has kicked against the Federal Government's plan to build a maximum security prison and modern cemetery in Ogoniland. He alleged that the plan had been concluded by the Federal Ministry of InteriorÃâà...
The Tide
February 28, 2018
The oil-bearing communities which affirmed their support for Belema Oil noted that the unanimous acceptance of Belema Oil by all shades of opinion in Ogoniland in 2014 was the reason for the issuance of various recommendation letters of the company to various authorities concerned with oil business.
AllAfrica.com
February 28, 2018
The recent endorsement of RoboMichael Nigeria Limited by Ogoni monarchs, under the auspices of Supreme Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers, SCOTRA, to explore oil in Ogoni land has triggered fresh crisis in the oil-rich Rivers' ethnic nationality. Twenty-five years ago, Ogoni natives halted oil operationÃâà...
The Tide
February 26, 2018
President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Comrade Legborsi Pyagbara has raised alarm over plot by multinational oil ... of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report recommendation in Ogoni land, and urged Ogonis to embrace peace and dialogue to fosterÃâà...
Vanguard
February 26, 2018
PORT HARCOURT—The Ogoni ethnic nationality at their General Assembly, has warned RoboMichael Nigerian Limited, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC and Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, to steer clear the Oil Mining Lease, OML11, adding that the call was in theÃâà...
Vanguard
February 20, 2018
PORT HARCOURT— Tension is brewing in Ogoni ethnic nationality of Rivers State following the insistence by Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, that the people of Ogoni have not endorsed any company to resume oil exploration on their land, as it called one Federal Government toÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
February 6, 2018
The Norwegian Envoy, Ambassador Kjemprud said the world was interested in the ongoing clean up of Ogoni, adding that Norway, as one of the biggest donors of the United Nations, was also committed to the safety of Ogoni People. “From what I have observed, Ogonis have been really patient to see thisÃâà...
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