The Nigerian military had begun a four-year occupation of the territory which in turn led to Nigeria's suspension from the Commonwealth and the notorious execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other activists (AC Vol 46 No 23 Ten years after)...
Ogoni's tribunes at odds The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) the party or NGO of the executed Ogoni activist the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa is divided and there is no single voice to 'speak for' the Ogoni community...
MOSOP was led in the 1990s by the author Ken Saro-Wiwa and nine MOSOP leaders including Saro-Wiwa were executed by the military dictatorship of the late Sani Abacha in 1995...
Wiwa v Shell was settled out of court in the United States in 2009 between the 'Ogoni Nine' families led by the late Ken Saro-Wiwa Jnr...
Ogoni has become emblematic of the Delta's plight since the killing in 1995 by the late dictator Sani Abacha of the 'Ogoni Nine': the author Ken Saro-Wiwa together with eight fellow leaders of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop)...
Ogoniland is the historic home of activist and environmental campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa who brought international attention to injustices in the Niger Delta (AC Vol 55 No 11 Trust still dormant)...
The fund was set up by Ken Saro-Wiwa Junior son of the late Ogoni author and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa...
Bodo was also the base for Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa who was hanged along with eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People by General Sani Abacha's military regime in 1995 (AC Vol 36 No 25)...
When policemen shot a farmer in a dispute over replacing a section of pipe in Bodo in 1993 they sparked an international civil rights campaign led by Ken Saro-Wiwa's Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People...
Yet the 2009 US$15 million settlement with the family of executed Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and other victims of General Sani Abacha’s regime could never have been reached if this ruling had been in place (AC Vol 54 No 5)...
settlement that Shell made with the relatives of the late Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and others...
Ken Saro-Wiwa Junior announced that $5 mn...