In June this year, we published this editorial appealing to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to revisit the case of the Ogoni 4. He listened and has just obliged us. We thank him for exercising his power ...
It is now 29 years since the writer and activist Ken Saro Wiwa and eight of his comrades were tried by a military tribunal, and sentenced to death for incitement and murder. They were executed in what ...
Mr. Femi Falana SAN has said that the Ogoni 4 and the Ogoni 9 were brutally killed by the Sani Abacha military junta in 1995. While speaking at the 84th posthumous birthday lecture of Ken Saro-Wiwa in ...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has expressed deep appreciation to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for granting a posthumous pardon to the Ogoni 9 and conferring National Honours on the Ogoni 4.
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People has criticised the Federal Government over its handling of the planned resumption of oil production in Ogoniland, Rivers State. The umbrella body of ...
A few weeks ago, select Ogoni persons were invited to the Aso Rock Villa to discuss economic activities in Ogoniland. That January 21 meeting was no doubt a grand ambush aided by some members of the ...
Succumbing to pressure from activists, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, recently reopened the almost closed chapter of the tragedy that befell Ogoniland 30 years ago in 1994. In his address to the nation ...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has given a vivid account of how the Ogoni 4 and the Ogoni 9 were brutally killed by the Sani Abacha military junta in 1995. Falana made this known at the 84th ...