Are you coming or going? It is an innocuous enough question. But whenever I run into someone at Lagos airport, the question nearly always finds me searching for an answer. The destination on my ...

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has posthumously pardoned nine environmental activists executed 30 years ago by the ...

The Gbenemene of Legbo Kingdom and President of the Association of Ogoni Business Owners, Chief Anthony Waadah, has strongly condemned the declaration of a state of emergency and suspension of ...

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 ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has urged Ogoni people to be cautious of politicians and political parties who will lure them with unworkable promises ahead of the 2023 general elections ...

The convener, Ogoni Democracy and Development Forum, Legborsi Pyagbara, has said the Ogoni was the most marginalized ethnic group in Rivers. ... Map of Rivers State. By Dennis Naku.

The organisation plans to develop a comprehensive survey map for the region, establish factories and companies to generate employment for youths, and set up skills acquisition centres in each of ...

Ogoni concession back on the map The Nigerian government may be preparing to facilitate a change of operatorship for all or part of the long-dormant Ogoni oil concession in the country's south ...

The organisation was responding to a planned meeting between some Ogoni people and a Federal Government delegation, convened by the Presidency, scheduled for Tuesday, 21 January 2025, in Abuja.

More than 12 years since it fled the Nigerian region of Ogoni in fear at the growing violence towards its operations from the local population, oil giant Shell has reopened talks with the people ...

The renowned environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and eight other Ogoni activists were hanged at the Port Harcourt Prisons on Friday, November 10, 1995, during the regime of the late Gen. Sani Abacha.

The Ogoni academics also called on Dr. Odili to seek for re-election in 2003, assuring that they would mobilise their vast intellectual capabilities to ensure his success at the poll.