Tag: Ogoni

Saro-Wiwa’s family rejects Tinubu’s  Ogoni-9 pardon, demands retrial, exoneration

Aminu Imam
Tinubu Ogoni

The family of the Late environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa has rejected President Bola Tinubu’s posthumous pardon for the “Ogoni-9”, demanding a retrial and full exoneration instead. Saro-Wiwa’s younger brother, Harry Wiwa, said the activists committed no crime and should not be “pardoned like criminals”. He insisted that the only acceptable justice is to clear their names and officially overturn the 1995 military tribunal verdict. “They committed no crime, so how do you pardon a man who didn’t commit any crime?” Wiwa asked, saying: “We want a retrial so they can…

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‘Wike looted $300m Ogoni cleanup cash to build ‘HyperCity’ malls’ – Sowore

Aminu Imam
Sowore Wike

Human rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, of diverting the sum of $300 million meant for Ogoniland’s environmental remediation into building a chain of supermarkets in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, who made the revelation yesterday in a post on his verified X (formerly Twitter) account, said Wike used the money to build the ‘HyperCity Supermarkets’ in Port-Harcourt.  “The revelation is that thieving Nyesom Ezenwo…

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31yrs after, Tinubu honours ‘Ogoni-4’ with National Awards

Aminu Imam
Tinubu honours 'Ogoni 4

Thirty-one years after their deaths, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday conferred posthumous national honours of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) on the Late Ogoni leaders: Albert Badey, Edward Kobani, Theophilus Orage and Samuel Orage, collectively remembered as the “Ogoni Four”. Tinubu announced the conferment while receiving the report of the Ogoni Consultations Committee at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Recall that in 1994, in Ogoniland, Rivers State, internecine strife culminated in the lynching of the four prominent Ogoni chiefs by irate youths. They were reportedly holding a meeting…

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