Ken Saro-Wiwa
25 Apr
On 22 September 1962, the university was opened to 244 students at its temporary facilities, the previous college of arts and sciences, Ibadan. Some of the new students were previously at the college of arts and sciences, and some staff were recruited from University College...
7 Nov 2022
Mpape, a spectacularly rocky district in the nation’s capital, Abuja, is not your characteristic venue for a conference, convention or retreat.
27 Oct 2022
Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has called on the Federal Government to accelerate the process of resolving the Ogoni crises by exonerating Ken Saro-Wiwa...
26 Oct 2022
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has called on the Federal Government to accelerate the process of resolving the Ogoni crises by exonerating the Environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and eight Ogoni activists executed on November 10, 1995. The President, Fegalo Nsuke, in a statement, explained that this has become imperative ahead of the…
23 Mar 2022
A Dutch court on Wednesday rejected a case brought by four Nigerian widows against oil giant Shell over their husbands' execution by the military regime that ruled their country in the 1990s.
11 Nov 2021
Ogoni Youth Federation (OYF), an umbrella body of Ogoni youths, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare November 10 a public holiday in Nigeria in honour of Ken Saro-Wiwa
9 Nov 2021
In what appears as the icing on the 26th memorial thanksgiving of the late environmental activist and author, Ken Saro Wiwa, the General Overseer of Gospel Power Assembly, Dr. Friday Bekee, has called on Ogoni people to seek justice and move against oppressors of the country.
15 Aug 2021
Three weeks ago, July 24, 2021, precisely, Miriam Jean (Forbes) Isoun, wife of Prof. Turner T. Isoun, former Minister of Science and Technology, celebrated her 80th birthday
15 Dec 2020
Following sustained agitation and militancy in the Niger Delta region, which remained unabated even after the judicial murder of writer and environmental activist, Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995 and after the inception of the current democratic dispensation five years later,.....
20 Nov 2020
The United States (U.S.) chapter of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has celebrated Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists that were killed by the late General Sani Abacha
15 Nov 2020
The Environmental Rights Action (ERA)/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (FoEN) has again charged the Federal Government to stop marginalising oil-producing communities.
12 Nov 2020
Activists under the aegis of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) have urged Nigerians to hold multinational companies accountable for human rights violations in the struggle for environmental justice...
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