Nigeria: Youths Picket NNPC Over Resumption of Oil Exploration in Ogoni

21 December 2017

A large number of protesters from oil ravaged Ogoni, Rivers State, yesterday, besieged the Port Harcourt zonal office of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, demanding a halt to perceived approval for resumption of oil exploration in Ogoniland.

The protesters, including hundreds of members of Ken Saro-Wiwa Associates, KSA and other Ogoni indigenes, at dawn, barricaded the gates of NNPC Port Harcourt zonal office, which also hosts the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR and Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, insisting on being heard by management of the corporation.

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