In a significant step towards advancing education and addressing environmental concerns, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed into law a bill establishing the Federal University of Environmental Technology, Ogoni. The institution is designed to specialize in environmental technology and research, offering both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The Nigerian Senate had earlier passed the bill, emphasizing […]
Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi has blamed some Civil Society Organisations as well as some individuals in Rivers of stalling Ogoni clean up through unnecessary litigations. Abdullahi stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents at the end of the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on […]
On Wednesday, the Ogoni people of Rivers state received justice when a multi-national oil firm, Shell Petroleum Company, agreed to pay a huge sum of N45.9 billion to the people for the losses incurred during the oil disaster that decimated their towns at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The Ogonis will receive the monetary […]
By Kingsley Chukwuka A group under the agies of Ogoni Libration Initiative, has said Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), will pay for the damages and air pollution done to the Ogoni environment. President of the Group, Dr. Fabeke Douglas stated this on Thursday in a statement while reacting to Shell’s onshore exit from […]
The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) says it is saddened that some unnamed security operatives disrupted its annual Ogoni Day Celebration on Monday. MOSOP President, Mr. Lazarus Tamana, said in Port Harcourt on Tuesday that some security operatives mobilised and disrupted its celebrations without offering any explanations. “We are worried that our […]
By Amaka Agbu As Nigeria remembers the execution of intellectual and environmental rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others 25 years ago, the people of Ogoni where the nine, now referred to as martyrs, hailed from, have presented again some demands to be met by the Federal Government to appease them. Foremost on the list […]
Some elders of Ogoniland under the aegis of Forum of Ogoni Elders and Leaders have described the ongoing cleanup exercise in the kingdom as a sham, Daily Times gathered. The group described the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) saddled with the responsibility of the cleanup as irresponsible and the wrong people for such an important […]
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the Ogoni clean up exercise can only succeed when the Federal Government stops playing politics with the programme. Speaking during a Courtesy Visit by the Minister of Environment, Dr Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar on Thursday at the Government House Port Harcourt, Governor Wike urged the Federal Government […]
The Federal Government said on Saturday that it was working to provide potable water for the Ogoni people in Rivers as recommended by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Report on Ogoniland Clean-up. Dr Mohammad Abubakar, the Minister of Environment, stated this while inspecting remediation sites in Eleme and Tai Local Government Areas (LGA) of the […]
Joy Obakeye The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre has decried the slow clean-up of oil pollution in Ogoniland. The Programme Manager, Environment and Conservation of Nature, CISLAC, Mr Kolawole Banwo, made this known at a workshop in Lagos. “Emergency measures (health audit, alternative livelihoods and potable water) are perceived to be delayed, inadequate or poorly […]
The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), an agency charged with the implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, Report on the clean-up of Ogoni and other Niger Delta areas has begun the implementation of the report area with healthcare outreach to the people. The agency has already embarked on health outreach programme in conjunction […]
A Nigerian based oil company, ‘Robomichael’ has demonstrated commitment to revamp the Ogoni community hitherto ravaged by oil spillage wish has caused both social and economic activities to die down. In a forum facilitated by a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Global Entrepreneurship City Network, the gathering seeks to reposition the ailing community into a mega […]
Nigeria keeps underestimating the environmental pollution ongoing in the Niger Delta, while its attendant effect on the overall well-being of the approximately 30 million people who call the wetland home has been understudied. Today makes it exactly twenty-two years since Paul Levura, Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Baribor Bera, Daniel Gbooko, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Felix Nuate, Barinem […]
On Thursday 4th August, 2011, when the United Nations Environment Programme presented its Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland to the Nigerian Government, there was a sigh of relief. In the draft press release that followed, the first paragraph read “The assessment has been unprecedented. Over a 14-month period, the UNEP team examined more than 200 locations, […]
Following recent violent clashes among the various cult groups in Ogoni, resulting in killings and an atmosphere of insecurity in the affected areas, the Rivers State government has declared that no amnesty would be granted to repentant cultists without a total surrender of their weapons. This declaration was made by the chairman of the Rivers […]