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New HYPREP Governing Council urged to establish Centre of Excellence for Ogoni clean-up process

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has called on the newly inaugurated Governing Council and Board of Trustees for the Hydrocarbon...

MOSOP gives Buhari 14-day ultimatum to dissolve HYPREP board

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has issued a 14-day ultimatum to President Muhammadu Buhari, to dissolve the newly constituted...

Govt inaugurates Governing Council, BoT on Ogoniland remediation project

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, March 12, 2021 inaugurated a 13-member Governing Council and a 10-member Board of Trustees of the Ogoni Trust Fund...

Ogoni women, Saro-Wiwa’s legacy and the clean-up process

No fewer than 411,803. A landmass spanning 1,050-square-kilometres. Some, if not most of them, in huts and mud houses for homes, without light and...

Unpaid salaries, communal conflict slowing down Ogoni clean-up exercise

Under the federal government’s project to clean up oil spills in Ogoniland, the first 21 locations in four local government areas should have been...

Govt hands over Ogoni remediation sites to NOSDRA for scientific analysis

The Federal Government says it has handed over some of the oil spill impacted sites in Ogoniland to the National Oil Spill Detection and...

Slow Poison: Travails of Ogoni communities drinking toxins – nine years after UNEP report

On August 28, 2020, the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) tweeted that water supply to Ogoniland would begin before the end of the year....

Ogoniland clean-up: UNEP stand faulted as legislators put HYPREP to task

A legislative oversight appears to have exposed cracks in the operations of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), a body established by the Federal...

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