Author: Ben Ikari

Buhari Isn't Implementing UNEP Report Adopting Jon

Thursday, August 25, 2016
Insofar as Ogoni cleanup and restoration is concern, President Muhammadu Buhari could be seen by many who believe in God or Allah, as a God 39;s or Allah rsquo;s sent. Although he deserves commendation for the steps he rsquo;s taken compared to the zero action of Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, his prede ...

Buhari And Team, Shell Not Honest About Ogoni Clean-Up: Flag-Off WasTheatrical

Tuesday, June 21, 2016
The theater was Bodo, Ogoni. And drama performed by the Nigerian government with $hell in attendance. Date was June 2, 2016, after the initial plan announced for the first quarter of the year failed. Yes, it rsquo;s the flag-off They rsquo;re flagging-off the purported implementation of UNEP rep ...

Ogonis Killed By Nigerian Military-Need For Independent Inquiry Commission

Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Recent reports in the media, oral accounts and evidence of dead bodies on the streets and compounds indicate the Nigerian Military unlawfully invaded Ogoni on February 22 and 23 respectively. Although it rsquo;s said Mr. Solomon Ndigbara, who is an ex-militant, was the target of the military. The ...

Biafrans Have Right To Secede From Nigeria—Secession Is A Fundamental Human Righ

Wednesday, January 6, 2016
No individual or group, entity or organization, including oppressive and destructive governments and people hate freedom. Yet many who love freedom can and have denied freedom to others who seek it knowing its importance as a fundamental right that is inalienable. Without any doubt therefore, no ...

In Remembrance of Ogoni Nine: Nigeria Must Not Politicize And Delay Ogoni Cleanu

Tuesday, November 10, 2015
As Ogonis and the world commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the unjust, cruel State and Corporate hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and Eight others who lost their lives because they campaigned and stood up against the deliberate pollution of Ogoni and dehumanization of the people by the Federal governmen ...

Ogoni UNEP Report: How Buhari Can Succeed Or Fail

Tuesday, August 25, 2015
While it 39;s appropriate to thank and congratulate Pres. Muhammadu Buhari for his wisdom and goodwill, attempting to keeping his campaign promise to Ogoni by approving series of efforts to fast-tracking the implementation of United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) recommendations. I ...

The Danger Of Not Prosecuting Corrupt Nigerian Politicians

Friday, May 29, 2015
To put it bluntly yet honestly, and in the name of economic recovery and accountability; respect for nation, tool for sanity and nation building. You can rsquo;t protect corruption, the cancer causing Nigeria rsquo;s and other African nations rsquo; gradual demise, while claiming to be fighting s ...

Ogoni Will Not Support Lower Niger Delta Secession

Thursday, May 7, 2015
There are recent reports of a so-called Lower Niger delta secession bid through a Federal referendum or otherwise, that could have worked under Goodluck Jonathan, but ignored because he wasn rsquo;t interested in secession. He thought he 39;d deceive Nigerians to trust and vote him in for a seco ...

Belema Oil Is Shell Oil...It's No Competence To Produce Oil In Ogoni

Thursday, March 5, 2015
My Dearest Ogoni Brothers and Sisters; Friends and Politicians, Chiefs, Organizational leaders and Leaders of thought: May I seize this medium to request humbly and respectfully that you please be at peace with yourselves, and think critically, protect the interest of Ogoni people at every cost, ...

Dr. Eddy WIkina Should Advocate Clean-Up And Ogoni Bill of Rights, Not Oil Produ

Thursday, March 5, 2015
Based on a press statement credited to a respected elder of Ogoni Dr. Eddy Wikina on behalf of the Ogonis Elites of Elders, titled: Oil Resumption in Ogoniland: Elites Advocate 10-15 Percent Equity, and published March 4, 2015 on Ogoninews.com. I wish to state clearly, and without equivocatio ...

What Shell's Settlement for Environmental Pollution in Ogoni Means

Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The recent settlement by $hell Petroleum Development Company of $83.5 million to the Ogoni community of Bodo, as out-of-court compensation in the United Kingdom, for two oil spills caused by company's negligence in 2008, is a sign of hope. It is a welcome development in the Ogoni struggle for enviro ...

Nigeria And Its First Republic Had Bad Foundation-Therefore The Spill-Over Effec

Monday, September 1, 2014
Although a British concoction and contraption which had no original form, Nigeria had a beginning which seemed awesome and promising in the eyes of the world, especially America, some European nations, when Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, then Prime Minister of Nigeria (1963 to 1966) visited USA, etc ...

Nigerians Should Dissociate From Failed National Conference

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
African Cultural And Fundamental Rights Council, AFCRC, USA, calls on the oppressed of Nigeria to standup, mobilize and dissociate from the just concluded National Conference. As suspected the conference failed to resolve core issues bothering on the nation's unity. These issues are the f ...
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