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Listen to PLATFORM’s series of podcasts marking 15 years since the execution of Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. The podcasts feature activists who are pushing for social change in the oil-producing Niger Delta. Introduction: Episode I: Fifteen Years of Not Getting Justice Episode II: Patrick’s Podcast Episode III: “Comrade Che”

The Black Gold Injustice: A Permanent Condition? *Race * Poverty * Environment * Justice * Action* Join a new series of events to explore how our daily lives connect to climate change in Africa, the Caribbean and beyond A global economy based on fossil fuels will lead to more natural disasters, resource wars and scorched frontiers…

On 16 March, Sahara Reporters broke the shocking news that Justice Auta, the judge responsible for sentencing Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activits to death is being appointed as Chief Justice of Nigeria. Justice Ibrahim Auta, the judge who was handpicked by the Abacha regime to head the kangaroo tribunal that sentenced renowned environmentalists…

A single diplomatic cable from Wikileaks has sparked a public relations disaster for Shell in Nigeria. Following a frontpage story in The Guardian on Thursday 9th December, Shell’s vice-like grip on Nigeria’s oil resources has been exposed. The leaked cables are highly revealing. Shell executive Ann Pickard boasts about infiltrating the Nigerian government with informants, and describes how…

Last night coalition partners SpinWatch released fresh revelations  in The Independent on Sunday exposing how Shell financed Nigerian military crackdowns on the minority Ogoni people and detailing new evidence to suggest Saro-Wiwa was framed by the military. This stream of revelations has emerged following a year of dedicated research into the evidence amassed against Shell…

(This article by Ben Amunwa first appeared in the current, oil-themed issue of Foto 8 magazine –https://www.foto8.com/new/in-print/8-magazine ) Outside the plane window at the Niger Delta, the oil region of Nigeria, I can see a solid bed of rainforest with wide ribbons of water the colour of coffee dregs coiling through it. I try to orientate,…

Fifteen years ago today, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others were executed by the Nigerian military government in collaboration with Shell Nigeria. The oil giant is under fresh scrutiny after secret documents revealed in The Guardian today expose how Shell tried to cover up oil spill data and manipulated the media and NGOs in the wake…

It’s the kind of text message you never want to receive. Sent from an activist in the Niger Delta on November 9th at 22.00,  it reads: Teams of heavily armed policemen stormed Saro-Wiwa’s No. 24 Aggrey Road, Port Harcourt, venue of the Saro-Wiwa candle light procession, shooting sporadically causing fear and panic. [UPDATE 11/11/10: we…