Shell is still under fire for what happened in Ogoni in 1995 when writer and local activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed along with eight others by the then dictatorship of General Sani Abacha...
Ken Saro-Wiwa Junior son of the late activist is now an advisor to President Jonathan...
The holding of this election is the first step towards reintegrating the people of the oil-rich Delta into mainstream politics since the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995 and the start of militant insurgency there...
Ogoni people exploited this in the 1990s when tired of the pollution and chronic underdevelopment associated with the oil industry they formed Mosop led by the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa...
Vol 50 No 24 |
- COMMONWEALTH
It was in Anyaoku's own country that the Declaration was first seriously tested in 1997 when General Sani Abacha's regime executed Niger Delta activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others...
The committee began work in September 2008 led by Ledum Mitee (a comrade of the hanged activist Ken Saro-Wiwa of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) and another activist Nkoyo Toyo...
Then Yar’Adua decorated the new military service chiefs and inaugurated a 45-member technical committee on the Niger Delta with Ledum Mitee a lieutenant of the executed writer Ken Saro-Wiwa as its Chairman...
Delta leaders have neither forgotten nor forgiven Gambari's description of executed civil rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa as a 'common criminal'...
Shell officials say the company has been extremely cautious in its approach to violence surrounding its facilities for fear of being linked to violent acts by government security forces as the company was at the time of Ken Saro-Wiwa's execution in 1995...
The legacy of writer-campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa a decade after his execution is secure...
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a dangerous separatist 'who presented himself as an environmentalist and human rights activist before the international community' who was guilty of heinous crimes that demanded the ultimate sanction if stability in Nigeria's volatile oil-producing Niger Delta were to be restored...