Nigeria

AMSTERDAM (THE NETHERLANDS) / LAGOS (NIGERIA), 5 August 2013 – Exactly two years after a United Nations report exposed oil giant Shell's systematic contamination of Ogoniland in Nigeria, Friends of the Earth groups from around the world are today launching an online petition targeting Shell.

Twenty years ago, exactly on June 12, 1993, Nigerians trooped out to vote in an election that has come to be adjudged as the best in the country.

Nigeria is the sixth highest producer of petroleum in the world. Since petroleum was discovered in commercial quantity in the 1950s, Nigeria has earned over $400 billion from oil.

Threat of two death sentences is ominously hanging over Nigeria ahead of the country’s centennial celebration. The first will be effected, according to its bearer, Mujahid Dokubo Asari, in the unlikely event that security agents swoop on him.

For a leader best known for taking controversial decisions, Nigerians are right in commending their president, Goodluck Jonathan, for rising to the occasion to declare states of emergency in parts of the country.

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For a leader best known for taking controversial decisions, Nigerians are right in commending their president, Goodluck Jonathan, for rising to the occasion to declare states of emergency in parts of the country.

Northern Nigeria needs help. Decades of bad governance have continued to traumatize the region.

The Education Rights Campaign, a front of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (a newly formed pro-working people’s political alternative)/Democratic Socialist Movement in the students’, youth and education workers’ movements is currently mobilizing for a National Day of Action on Education and Jobs on

After Chinua Achebe published his new book – ‘There was a country: A personal history of Biafra’, Nigerian politicians, and intellectuals assailed his account of events accusing him of propaganda and creating the impression that what he wrote was some sort of fabrication.