President Muhammadu Buhari appointed the powerful Ogoni Senator Magnus Abe to the board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in 2020 and the Delta's Rivers State government recently took over the strategically important Oil Mining Licence 11 (OML 11) in Ogoniland – a move that Shell is challenging through Nigeria's courts...
Party schismOne of the most powerful Ogoni politicians Senator Magnus Abe has been elevated to the board of the NNPC by Deputy oil minister Timipre Sylva a former Delta militant and governor of neighbouring Bayelsa State...
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With 2019 gubernatorial nominations fast approaching Amaechi's former friend and APC ally Magnus Ngei Abe – the federal Senator for Rivers South-East – is siding with the current PDP Governor of Rivers Ezenwo Nyesom Wike...
Ndigbara's gang then went to Bori a market town in Khana on the other side of Ogoniland where they attacked Senator Magnus Ngei Abe's offices...
655 trillion between 2006 and September 2011 according to the findings of a Senate committee led by Senator Magnus Ngei Abe...
