updated Tue. April 2, 2019
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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 governmentÃÂ ...
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 oilÃÂ ...
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 differentÃÂ ...
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 oilÃÂ ...
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 asÃÂ ...
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 ofÃÂ ...
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 InteriorÃÂ ...
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 operationÃÂ ...
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 fosterÃÂ ...
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 theÃÂ ...
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 toÃÂ ...
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 thisÃÂ ...
National Accord
February 7, 2018
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) wishes to acknowledge the profound threats to the peace of Ogoniland occasioned by the activities of Belema Oil Producing Limited and Robo Micheal Limited. Consequently, MOSOP is considering blacklisting Belema Oil and Robo Micheal asÃÂ ...
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 thisÃÂ ...
Daily Post Nigeria
January 26, 2018
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) on Wednesday said it has uncovered a plot by key oil industry operators in Nigeria to kill its President, Legborsi Saro Pyagbara. It said the plot was being hatched through the sponsorship of local actors who have been contracted to engage in aÃÂ ...
The Tide
January 26, 2018
More discomforting is the crisis of confidence between the Federal Government and the Ogonis who have repeatedly doubted the government's sincerity in the orchestrated clean-up issue. This crisis, needless to say, has taken its toll on the overall environment of Ogoniland and the psyche of Ogonis asÃÂ ...
Daily Trust
January 25, 2018
The Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Usman Jibril, has disclosed that will focus on three key issues - Ogoni cleanup, desertification and erosions control - this ... “We need to clean Ogoni land of oil pollution so that if and when we are diversifying they can also do their farming and fishing activities.
Vanguard
January 25, 2018
“We want to alert the world of the activities of two oil companies, which have engaged local actors, sponsoring groups and individuals solely to cause crises in Ogoni to justify a crackdown on activists and treat the current leadership of MOSOP in the same way it dealt with a generation of Ogoni leaders inÃÂ ...
The Tide
January 22, 2018
Meanwhile, Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike says the Federal Government has not done enough to implement the Ogoni environment clean-up programme. ... Wike averred that, “I'am not against oil prospecting in Ogoniland at least that will improve our revenue, but there are fundamental issues.
P.M. News
January 21, 2018
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has shocked Rivers people and Nigerians when he revealed that Songhai farm and the multi-million Naira banana farm both in Tai local government area in Ogoniland established during the administration of Chibuike Amaechi were secretly owned by privateÃÂ ...
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com
January 21, 2018
For example, on 19 March 1993 Shell sent a letter to the governor of Rivers State, where Ogoniland is located, requesting his “intervention to enable us carry out our operations given the strategic nature of our business to the economy of the nation.” After General Sani Abacha seized power in NovemberÃÂ ...
UNPO
January 20, 2018
In what resembles actions taken during the brutal reign of the infamous Abacha regime, the Nigerian government apparently decided to reinvest into the exploitation of Ogoniland, perpetrating gross human rights violations along the way. The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP),ÃÂ ...
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com
January 15, 2018
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) urges the Nigerian government to put a stop to the constant human rights violations by Shell, *********** Limited and other oil prospecting firms who now use Nigerian soldiers against local resistance to force the resumption of oil production inÃÂ ...
Daily Post Nigeria
January 15, 2018
Ogonis are kicking against resumption of oil activities in the their land especially the exploration of OML Eleven. A Frontline Environmental activist, Celestine Akpobari in an interview with our correspondent said the plan to begin oil exploration when impacted sites are yet to be cleaned is insensitive.
African Herald Express (blog)
January 14, 2018
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) urges the Nigerian government to put a stop to the constant human rights violations by Shell, RoboMichael Limited and other oil prospecting firms who now use Nigerian soldiers against local resistance to force the resumption of oil production inÃÂ ...
Independent Newspapers Limited
January 14, 2018
P/Harcourt – The cloud is thickening, and the blanket of fear has continued to envelope all. This portrays the current situation in Ogoniland suggestive of a possible outbreak of another major oil war between two oil companies, a development, which is tearing apart the indigenous people of Ogoni ethnicÃÂ ...
The Nation Newspaper
January 12, 2018
An ecologist, Mr Dennis Ugwuja, has appealed to the Federal Government to fast-track the clean-up of oil spill in Ogoni land, Rivers. Ugwuja, also the Executive Director of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Initiative (CCMAI), an NGO, made the appeal on Wednesday in an interview with the NewsÃÂ ...
Vanguard
January 11, 2018
MOSOP has said that the attempt by RoboMichael Nigerian Limited to resume oil exploration in Ogoniland, Rivers State, was a threat to the peace and security of the people of the area. Meantime, COTRAL has demanded an apology from MOSOP for accusing the traditional rulers of Ogoni of invasion.
Vanguard
January 10, 2018
An ecologist, Mr Dennis Ugwuja has appealed to the Federal Government to fast-track the clean-up of oil spill in Ogoni land, Rivers. Ugwuja, also the Executive Director of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Initiative (CCMAI), an NGO, made the appeal on Wednesday in an interview with newsmenÃÂ ...
Africa Independent Television
January 6, 2018
The entrance to the corporate headquarters of the Nigerian national petroleum corporation (NNPC) in Abuja was on Thursday barricaded, as persons said to be representing the Ogoni people of rivers state staged what they called a non-violent protest against shell and NNPC. They accused both shell andÃÂ ...
Daily Post Nigeria
January 6, 2018
“OCDN therefore condemns this impunity, rejects the re-constitution and expansion of a people-based committee to include Senator Abe's cronies. “We are very concerned about developments in Nigeria's Ogoniland and reject this action as it is not only illegitimate to alter a people-based decision by theÃÂ ...
The Punch
January 5, 2018
A picture taken on June 13, 2017 shows fishing boats tied down on the riverbanks of the Bodo River devastated by oil spills in Bodo, in the Gokana district of Ogoniland, southeast Nigeria. One year after the much-heralded launch of a clean-up programme, the oil slicks that have blackened the waters, killedÃÂ ...
UNPO
January 5, 2018
Dating back to 4 January 1993, Ogoni Day is celebrated to remember the Ogonis' peaceful struggle against discrimination, suppression and the destruction of their environment and livelihoods by international oil companies and the Nigerian government for now more than six decades. The UnrepresentedÃÂ ...
Daily Post Nigeria
January 5, 2018
“I want to congratulate the Ogoni people for their steadfastness, resilience, courage and commitment in the struggle for a fair and just country where all citizens can live meaningful lives. “I congratulate President Buhari for the commitment that led to the cleanup of Ogoniland and the progress made so far.
Vanguard
January 5, 2018
Pyagbara, who thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for addressing the environmental problems in the area, expressed displeasure with the delay in the provision of the emergency measures included in the report on Ogoniland by the United Nations. He said: “The efforts are indeed too slow and areÃÂ ...
Vanguard
January 4, 2018
Meanwhile, His Royal Highness, Mene Daniel Wida, Mene Bua-Bain, stated that the body was borne out of the desire of the oil producing communities of Ogoni to front the agitations for the liberation from marginalization and development. Wida said: “These communities feel the impact of oil explorationÃÂ ...
Vanguard
January 4, 2018
The senator said that the committee, made up of Ogoni representatives on the Board and Governing Council of Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP, was mandated to meet with the Minister of Environment and to update the people on the financial releases and progress on the OgoniÃÂ ...
Guardian (blog)
January 3, 2018
Ibrahim disclosed this at Bori, in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, at the weekend, during a consultation meeting with the Conference of Ogoni Traditional rulers, women and youths.She said the firm was granted licence by the Federal Government last month to operate the OML 11, and to alsoÃÂ ...
Vanguard
December 29, 2017
But speaking, Chairman of Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers, Mene Bua-Bagha, HRH, King Suanu Baridam, who was among the decision makers that brought Robo Michael to Ogoni, said: “We the chiefs, elders and youths of Ogoni invited Robo Michael Nigeria Limited for a meeting. Based on theÃÂ ...
The Nation Newspaper
December 29, 2017
Ibrahim, who was represented at the meeting by the Senior Technical Adviser to the Minister of Environment, Ishiyaku Mohammed, said the government would leave no stone unturned in the bid to clean Ogoni land and appealed for patience from stakeholders in the region. “This is to assure the entireÃÂ ...
Vanguard
December 20, 2017
“There is genocide in Ogoni, because our waters have been destroyed. The UNEP report has been abandoned. The highest event we have today is burial. We are demanding that every Ogoni son in the Governing Council has Board of Trustee of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP,ÃÂ ...
Vanguard
December 31, 1999
The body also demanded unreserved apology from Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, for allegedly destroying Ogoniland and exposing the people of the area to suffering, hardship and pollution. National Coordinator of KSA, Chief Gani Topba, made the plea yesterday, at the Ogoni GeneralÃÂ ...
The Nation Newspaper
December 31, 1999
The President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Chief Legborsi Saro Pyagbara, has stated that Ogoni people appreciate the efforts of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to address the environmental nightmare in Ogoniland. He also admonished OgoniÃÂ ...
Daily Post Nigeria
December 31, 1999
The Minister said the slow pace of the clean up is not deliberate but an opportunity to set up institutional structures that will stand the test of time, adding that the Ogoni clean up is a pilot project that is meant to set precedents for other impacted sites in the Niger Delta. The Minister called for support andÃÂ ...
Blueprint newspapers Limited (blog)
December 10, 2017
Barely 18 months after the clean up programme of the Ogoniland was flagged up, President Muhammadu Buhari, has given an insight into why the project is yet to kick off. The project, which was launched in June, 2016, in Rivers state, has attracted a lots of criticisms with the Governor, Nyesom Wike,ÃÂ ...
Daily Trust
December 6, 2017
The president of Ogoni ethnic nationality bloc comprising of four Ogoni local government areas of Khana, Gokana, Tai and Eleme (KAGOTE), Dr Peter Mede, said, “The bureaucratic process is delaying the implementation of UNEP. We need a waiver that will stop the money for the cleanup being tied down ...
AllAfrica.com
December 5, 2017
The euphoria that greeted the launch of the Ogoni clean-up project has not only faded since nothing has been done almost two years after, the report, the other day, of the budget of a paltry N20 million for the exercise in the 2018 spending plan has advertised a certain unseriousness on the part of ...
Vanguard
December 4, 2017
He said: “I feel disappointed that Governor Wike would even bring up the issue of the UNEP exercise in Ogoniland, not to talk of criticising the APC government over the process. He had the opportunity of making it happen when he was a Minister under President Jonathan, but he didn't move a limb.
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