The underpinning of the struggle then was that we looked through and saw Ogoni in a very dire state. We saw that we were almost going to get extinct.

A fresh crisis is brewing in Ogoni over plans by the Federal Government through the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) to resume crude oil production in the Ogoni area of OML 11 by October. Not minding the chequered history of oil companies’ activities in the Ogoni area, the Federal Government and its corporate partners planned resumption of…

A Dutch court has ruled that it has jurisdiction to determine the complicity or otherwise of Shell in the November 10, 1995 execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni environmental activists by the late General Sani Abacha military junta, United Kingdom’s The Guardian has reported. In a 50-page ruling hailed by campaigners as an…

Against the backdrop of curious procrastination of the Ogoniland cleanup project by the Federal Government, announcement by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo that International Oil Companies (IOCs) have contributed the sum of $180 million towards the exercise is heart-warming. That gesture should be followed with immediate action. President Muhammadu Buhari had flagged off the…

Let me state from the outset that the opinion you are reading is not from the school of the spontaneous mind. It is one that tries to reveal something of what I wish to call the simplicity of great truth about our country. In the midst of the jarring disharmony of our political gladiators’ opinions…

Ken Saro Wiwa, the infamous Ogoni leader, was born on this day in 1941. An award-winning activist, his impact in the struggle for the cleanup and improvement of the lives of Ogoni people have continued to remain unmatched. Saro-wiwa was not just the mputhpiece of his people, he was a firm believer in everything he…

Kenule Beeson Tsaro-Wiwa was born on this day in 1941. Kenule popularly known as Ken Saro-Wiwa was an award-winning human rights activist who met his untimely death in 1995 while fighting against the environmental degradation and the survival of the Ogoni people under the administration of Military head of state, Sani Abacha. Yet his impact…

Noo Saro-Wiwa is the author of Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (2012).This book was nominated for the Dolman Best Travel Book Award...

Leaders of Ogoni under the auspices of the Supreme Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers and elected leaders of Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) have urged President Buhari to give national recognition to Ken Saro-Wiwa and 11 other Ogoni sons as well as improved security and establishment of a Centre for Environmental…

The executive members of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 37th yearly international convention of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), visited Rutam House...

The Ken Saro-Wiwa Associates have threatened that the Ogoni people will not participate in the 2019 elections, if there is no adequate security in the area. The National Coordinator of the group, Chief Gani Tobpa, lamented that the last elections in Ogoni land witnessed high level of insecurity, querying that if everyone dies, who will vote in…

The National Co-ordinator of the group, Gabi Topba, who stated this at the weekend during the formal presentation of a 12-point communique drafted by the Ogoni Peoples Assembly, said the Ogoni people re-affirmed their desire to remain part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.