Tweet Shocking photographs of showing the extent of oil pollution in Niger Delta rivers, creeks and ponds. Via National Post for more photos. For more on the Niger Delta environment see Nnimmo’s Reflections
Redux: Odi & Filling Nigeria’s Memory Hole
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
After 14 years, Nigerian courts have ordered the government to pay compensation to Odi Town in the sum of nearly $240 million within 21 days. He described the attack on Odi as
“brazen violation of the fundamental human rights of the victims to movement, life and to own property and live peacefully in their ancestral home.”
“We Remember Differently” – Oil is Everything in Nigeria
November 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Chimanada Ngozi Adiche responds to some of the criticism of Chinua Achebe’s memoir “There Was a Country”. I finished reading ‘There Was a Country’ a few days ago and was contemplating my own response to some of the critical reviews of the book. Fortunately for me Adichie has said nearly everything I wa
#16Days: – Nigeria’s Memory Hole*
November 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In the early hours of the morning of the 20th November, 1999, 27 trucks carrying over 2000 soldiers plus 4 armored personnel carriers mounted with machine guns drove into Odi Town in Bayelsa State. Between 2pm that afternoon and 6pm the following day, the town was bombarded with artillery fire. By the end of the two days, practically every building in the town was flattened, set on fire and/or looted. In all 2,483 persons – mainly women, children and the elderly were
Civitella 2: Interview with Uche Umez
November 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
Tweet Uche is the author of two collections of poem: Dark through the Delta, and Aridity of Feelings; a short story collection Tears in Her Eyes, and two children’s fiction: Sam and the Wallet and The Runaway Hero. The Boy Who Throws Stones at Animals, a collection of Children’s stories and The Outsider, a Young [...]
Timeline of corporate human rights abuses in Nigeria
June 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Tweet Platform have created this excellent Timeline which documents the actions and interactions of all those directly and indirectly involved with the exploration and exploitation of oil in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The timeline is based on the examination of 4,521 leaked US embassy cables from Nigeria and builds on the report: Counting [...]
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