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Nigerian environmentalists on Tuesday condemned a government plan to resume oil production in the restive Ogoniland, demanding a halt until meaningful talks with local communities are completed.
“Ken Saro-Wiwa’s younger brother, Dr. Owens Wiwa, is in attendance to demand from the Nigerian government an exoneration of his brother and eight other Ogoni activists who were executed by ex ...
"Our attention was drawn to a list of some so-called prominent Ogoni leaders, whom the Nigeria government and Shell used their false statements and testimonies in hanging Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight ...
Nigeria’s then-military dictatorship two years later executed Saro-Wiwa, a prominent Ogoni campaigner, and eight others on trumped-up murder charges, adding to the unrest. Several attempts to ...
Their struggle gained international attention in the 1990s with the execution of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni leaders by the then-Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha.