Nigerian environmentalists on Tuesday condemned a government plan to resume oil production in the restive Ogoniland, demanding a halt until meaningful talks with local communities are completed.

A pan-Ogoni organisation, the Ogoni Solidarity Forum South Africa, has voiced its strong opposition to the Federal Government’s plans to recommence oil exploration in Ogoni. The forum noted that the ...

Nigeria’s then-military dictatorship two years later executed Saro-Wiwa, a prominent Ogoni campaigner, and eight others on trumped-up murder charges, adding to the unrest. Several attempts to ...

Environmental rights groups have warned that Ogoniland is yet to heal from the damage wrought by decades of oil exploration Show more This year it will be 30 years since Nigerian author and ...

"Our attention was drawn to a list of some so-called prominent Ogoni leaders, whom the Nigeria government and Shell used their false statements and testimonies in hanging Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight ...