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Rivers United as Ogoni People Embrace Unity — Magnus Abe

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:00:40 +0000

Former governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Abe, has declared that the people of the state, particularly Ogoniland, are now united and ready to put an end to years of division. Abe made the remark on Wednesday during an interview on Politics Today, a programme aired on Channels [...]

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The Ogoni Oil and the Sahara Energy’s Playbook

Nwaorgu Faustinus — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 08:12:04 +0000

Sahara Energy has had a good chance of being accepted as an operator for the Ogoni oil fields. In 2019, when the news first broke out about Sahara’s interest and manoeuvres to assume the operatorship of the oilfields, IMOSOP made frantic efforts to contact Sahara for a dialogue and was turned down. The mindset suggested [...]

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The Ogoni Lessons of the Past 30 Years

Adewale A. — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 20:32:42 +0000

Ogoni is one of the world’s most celebrated cases of state-sponsored repression. Against all odds, the people have persevered in the search for justice, equity and basic freedoms deserving of all humanity. Indeed, it has been a painful account that in our own country, our government ordered a military crackdown that left some 4,000 people dead, and [...]

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The Ogoni Lessons of the Past 30 Years By Fegalo Nsuke

Adewale A. — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:19:43 +0000

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The Allegory of the Cave Should Not Play Out in the Ogoni Struggle

Adewale A. — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 16:47:33 +0000

In the past 30 years, we have fought for our lives. Like a people pushed to the wall, our fight was for life or death. We recorded victories but we have most certainly been unable to celebrate our successes because they haven’t come with the ultimate joy and freedom we seek. Despite its high costs [...]

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Rivers: We Want Governorship Position, Not Deputy Gov – Ogoni Group

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 12:00:37 +0000

The Ogoni people have declared that any Ogoni man or woman who seeks the position of deputy governor in 2023 will be seen as an enemy of Ogoniland. The group, known as Vanguard of Ogoni Nation, said Ogoni people will not settle for anything less than the office of the Rivers governor in 2023. The [...]

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Search For Wike’s Successor Roils Rivers As Ogoni Eyes 2023

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Mon, 31 May 2021 11:00:32 +0000

Will the riverine part of Rivers State produce Governor Nyesom Wike’s successor in 2023? How far would the two major political parties, the governing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) go in accommodating the agitation by the Ogoni’s to produce the governor of Rivers State in 2023? Those are some of [...]

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Everybody Is Now Claiming To Love Ogoni – Rotimi Amaechi

David Folami — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 05:07:31 +0000

Rotimi Amaechi, has said River state Governor, Nyesom Wike has reversed all the progressive and laudable project we did including free education and free healthcare care policies in Rivers State,” Amaechi said on Saturday, February 10, 2018. “Saro-Wiwa was killed by the then machinery of power because of his belief that Ogonis and the Niger [...]

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GEJ Refused To Come To Ogoni Land – Rotimi Amaechi

David Folami — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:21:58 +0000

The minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi told people present at the flag off of the clean-up of Ogoni land on Thursday, June 2, 2016, that former President Goodluck Jonathan refused to come to Ogoni. Amaechi said he asked GEJ to clean-up the area, but he refused, adding that the former President turned deaf ears to [...]

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Clean-up Of Ogoniland: Buhari A Better Son Of The N/Delta Than Jonathan, Wike – Rivers APC | #Politics

Wale Adebayo — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 16:15:04 +0000

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND OGONI LEADERS LED BY HIS MAJESTY KING G. N. GININWA The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for fast-tracking the clean-up of Ogoniland in accordance with the Report and recommendations of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). In a statement signed by the Chairman, [...]

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Begin Process Of National Healing And Reconciliation, MOSOP Urges Buhari | #Politics

Wale Adebayo — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 18:15:30 +0000

The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to begin the process of national healing and reconciliation.MOSOP gave this charge in a letter addressed to the president on Thursday, lamenting that the issue of national reconciliation had not taken off after his second stint as leader of the country.In [...]

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Amaechi Asks Ogonis To Engage Themeselves In Fasting For Federal Govt To Release N170bn

David Folami — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:01:39 +0000

Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, yesterday, called on the Ogoni people to declare one- day fasting for God to make the Federal Government to release one billion dollars (N170 billion) from the 49.8 billion dollars allegedly missing for the implementation of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Report on Ogoni. . The governor, who [...]

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2 Lives Lost In Rivers State Crisis

David Folami — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:14:00 +0000

OGONI area of Rivers State is the new theatre of war in battle for the soul of the state between Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s camp and those against him. . Weekend’s advertised rally by by the two camps was another reason for the latest news of violence that visited the state. Uncomfirmed reports said that two [...]

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