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Nigeria: Saro-Wiwa Trial Begins Today
This Day, 27 May 2009
The trial of Anglo-Dutch super major, Shell, over its alleged complicity in the death of Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa, leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP),… Read more »
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Nigeria: Saro Wiwa's Death Improving Human Rights Benchmark - Commonwealth Scribe
Independent (Lagos), 20 April 2009
Amid cases of flagrant human rights violation recorded countrywide, Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma, has said member states are recording improvement on human right… Read more »
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Nigeria: Of Saro Wiwa, the Niger Delta Crisis And Us All
Leadership, 15 November 2008
In the early hours of November 10, 1995, Ken Saro Wiwa, writer, environmentalist and businessman was hanged along- side eight other Ogoni activists at a prison in Port Harcourt,… Read more »
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Nigeria: Ogoni And Quest for Autonomy
This Day, 14 November 2008
The Ogoni struggle has its roots in the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-70. Many non-Igbos who were coerced to join the defunct Biafra felt oppressed by Igbos, as well as by Nigerians. Read more »
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Nigeria: Saro-Wiwa - Niger Delta Leaders Demand Apology From Useni
Independent (Lagos), 1 November 2008
National Chairman of the Democratic People's Party (DPP), General Jeremiah Useni (rtd) may have stirred the hornet's nest as his alleged justification of the killing of Ken… Read more »