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Hope for Ogoniland: President Orders Talks on Oil Resumption, Confers National Honours

Ihesiulo Grace 25 September 2025 0

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.

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Tinubu appoints governing council, principal officers for new Ogoni federal university

Vincent Afolabi 30 July 2025 0

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

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Ogoni clean-up deceptive, politicised, Wike alleges

Ihesiulo Grace 6 January 2021 0

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 […]

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Norwegian envoy appeals against re-pollution of Ogoniland

Ihesiulo Grace 2 March 2020 0

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

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Land disputes delaying Ogoniland clean-up – FG

Ihesiulo Grace 6 January 2020 0

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 […]

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Police kill kidnap gang leader terrorising Ogoni

Ihesiulo Grace 7 October 2019 0

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 […]

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Ogoniland cleanup: Rights group rejects alleged FG ‘s plan to deploy soldiers

Ihesiulo Grace 28 November 2018 0

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 […]

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Amnesty International urges FG to fast track Ogoni clean up

Ihesiulo Grace 28 August 2018 0

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 […]

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Mixed feelings greet Senate Committee on Environment’s visit to Ogoniland

Ihesiulo Grace 4 December 2017 0

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 […]

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Fed govt expresses concern over non-repatriation of stolen funds

Ihesiulo Grace 4 March 2017 0

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 […]

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Reject Candidates Who Thwarted PIB, UNEP Report on Ogoniland – ERA/FoEN

Ihesiulo Grace 17 March 2015 0

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

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Experts Petition FG Over Renewed Oil Extraction In Ogoniland

Ihesiulo Grace 11 March 2015 0

  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