President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to begin immediate engagement with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the Ogoni people, and other stakeholders to finalise plans for the resumption of oil production in Ogoniland. The directive followed the submission of a report by the Presidential Committee on […]
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of the governing council and principal officers for the newly established Federal University of Environment and Technology, Koroma/Saakpenwa, in Ogoniland, Rivers State. The president named Prof. Don Mon Baridam, a scholar of management with a specialisation in organisational behaviour, as pro-chancellor and chairman of the governing council. Baridam previously […]
Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has taken a critical look at the ongoing cleanup of Ogoniland and declared that the Federal Government has not been sincere in the exercise. The governor said that the government at the centre was being deceptive and playing politics with the Ogoni milieu remediation programme […]
The Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria, Jens-Petter Kjemperud on Monday appealed to oil companies and illegal oil bunkerers against re-pollution of oil impacted Ogoniland currently undergoing remediation. Kjemprud made the appeal while inspecting progress of work at ‘less complex sites’ in Alode community in Eleme Local Government Area in Rivers state. The envoy also called on […]
Port Harcourt – The Federal Government on Monday says it is committed in cleaning up the hydrocarbon impact on communities in Ogoniland in spite of challenges being faced in the exercise. Dr Marvin Dekil, the Project Coordinator, Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Project (HYPREP) disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines […]
The Police in Rivers on Monday said they had killed “a notorious gang leader’’, Linus Lebari, 35, popularly known as Bobby/Devil, terrorising Ogoni area of the state. The command’s spokesman, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, in Port Harcourt that operatives from the Bori Police Station, in a coordinated operation, trailed the deceased and his gang to their […]
A pro-Ogoni group, operating under the aegis of Ken Saro Wiwa Associates (KSWA) has strongly condemned and rejected an alleged plan by the Minister of Environment, Alhaji Usman Jubril, to deploy 3,000 soldiers to Ogoniland for the cleanup exercise of the area. The position of the group was made known by its National Coordinator, Chief […]
Human Rights Activist and one of the founding members of Amnesty lnternational, Barbara Taft, has appealed to the Federal government to fast-track the cleanup of the oil impacted sites in Ogoniland. Speaking on the sideline of her visit to the family of the late environmentalist and playwright, Ken Saro-Wiwa, in Banee, Khana local government council […]
Hope, despair, suspicion greeted the Senate Committee on Environment headed by Senator Oluremi Tinubu, in Ogoni land last Monday as the team stormed the area on a fact-finding mission. The vexed issues arising from the planned cleanup of Ogoni swamps, creeks, streams, rivers, farmlands, and wells severely devastated by oil spills, informed the visit. The […]
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has re-iterated Nigeria’s concern over the non-repatriation of its stolen funds running into millions of dollars stashed in foreign banks. . A statement issued by Sarah Sanda, the media aide to the minister, said Onyeama raised the concern at the high level segment of the 34th Human Rights […]
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has commended the Hon. Ishaka Bawa-led 23 man- ad-hoc committee on Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) for recommending the removal of discretional powers of the president to grant petroleum even as it urged Nigerian electorate to deprive lawmakers currently seeking re-election votes if they are found to […]
Twenty-five experts have petitioned the Federal Government of Nigeria to declare Ogoniland an ecological disaster zone and clean up the environment. The petition, signed by environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey and other laureates of the Right Livelihood Award, (often referred to as the the “Alternative Nobel Prize”), comes as controversy ignites over reports that a Nigerian […]