THE GUARDIAN Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has granted an order for leave to apply for judicial review compelling the Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Project(HYPREP) to perform the public duty of the cleanup and remediation of Ogoniland in…
PRESS RELEASE (Newark, NJ, Thursday, November 11, 2021): Before UN Climate Summit (COP26) ends in Glasgow: Nigeria’s climate catastrophe, hypocrisy, and the latest oil well explosion in Nembe area of Ijaw land, Nigeria. The Ijaw Diaspora Council, with global headquarters…
LEADERSHIP More than 22 million litres of crude oil were recovered from the spill site in Bodo community in Gokana local government area of Rivers State between 2017 and 2019 as part of ongoing cleanup of the environment. The cleanup…
LEADERSHIP.NG Civil society organisations have decried the slow pace of work in the clean-up of the polluted Ogoni environment as recommended by the report of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) exactly 10 years after the report was submitted to…
AFRICA NEWS Twenty-Five years ago, Nigeria’s Niger Delta region burst into international headlines. Nine Nigerian environmental activists including a popular writer Ken Saro Wiwa, accused of murder were executed by the then Nigerian military dictator Sani Abacha’s regime. Saro Wiwa,…
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Nearly 10 years after a clean-up was urged for areas polluted by Shell and other oil companies in the Niger Delta, work has begun on only 11% of planned sites while vast areas remain heavily contaminated, according to…
GUARDIAN The Ogoni Liberation Initiative (OLI) has vowed to legally press for compensation of N4 trillion environmental damage for the over 60 years of oil exploration in the area. The group recalled that in 1992, Ogoni leaders demanded payment from…