On June 12th, Goteh Keenam and Dambani Kuenu, two young Ogoni men from Zor-Sogho community in Rivers state, Nigeria were shot dead by policemen. The two were protesting ongoing attempts by the State government to smuggle the Bori Camp Military Barracks, which houses the Second Amphibious Brigade in Port Harcourt into Ogoni territory.

In January 2012 the Nigerian People decided that enough is enough.... We need change.. we need development.. we need our voices to heard.... abi na like this we go de de?

The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD)  has advised the Federal Government of Nigeria to revert to the old fuel price of N65 per litre  to avert the unprecedented  hardship and sufferings Nigerian masses have been subjected since she increased the project to N140 as her new year gift to the people.

The Protest in port Harcourt are said to continue until the old fuel price of N65 is reinstated.

In August and December 2008, two major oil spills disrupted the lives of the 69,000 or so people living in Bodo, a town in Ogoniland in the Niger Delta. Both spills continued for weeks before they were stopped. Three years on, the prolonged failure of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, to clean up the oil that was spilled, continues to have catastrophic consequences for the Bodo community.

Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) yesterday declared that Shell must pay an initial $1 billion for clean-up of the pollution.