Thirty years ago, nine environmental activists from the Niger Delta were executed. While their protest against oil pollution lives on, a pardon and little repair to the affected region brings more ...

Yesterday’s full posthumous pardon of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the eight other Ogoni activists by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has drawn wide acclaim from Niger Delta leaders. The President pardoned and ...

There was jubilation in the Niger Delta on Thursday following the proclamation of posthumous state pardon and national honours on the famous Ogoni Nine by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as part of ...

Nigeria’s government has posthumously pardoned nine activists known as the Ogoni Nine, who were hanged in 1995 after a sham military trial that targeted peaceful protesters demanding an end to oil ...

Saro-Wiwa was arrested in May, 1994 in Nigeria on what many believe to have been spurious charges. On November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his comrades (the "Ogoni Nine") were executed by ...

The memory of the late Nigerian environmental activist, Ken Saro Wiwa, came alive again on Friday at COP27 in Egypt as Oilwatch group celebrated him, 27 years after his execution. Saro Wiwa was ...

Hundreds of members of Nigeria's Ogoni minority have marched in the oil city of Port Harcourt to mark the tenth anniversary of the execution of rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa after he protested against ...