A quiet revolution is taking place in the cocoa plantations of Nigeria. Cocoa yields had been on the decline over the ages due to ageing and neglect. Now farmers in the cocoa heartland of

Under the onslaught of international criticism, Shell Nigeria, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant which had perpetrated one of the worst environmental crimes in Ogoniland, is trying desperately to

THE homeland of the Ogonis - Nigeria - has yielded yet another sizable reserve of oil, this time below the waters off its coasts. Royal Dutch/Shell, which conducts major oil exploration

A meningitis epidemic has broken out in the country claiming more than 2,655 lives, most of them children, says a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report. At least 20 million Nigerians

More blood is likely to flow in Nigeria. Come 1996, and 19 more comrades of the executed Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa will go through the same mockery of justice, and probably end up in the gallows.

THE Nigerian government's going ahead with the prosecution (read persecution) of 19 more of Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa's comrades has kept the world's focus sharply glued to the African nightmare.

The military ambury regime in Nigeria contin m orpressive tread. It has charged Sao" members of the Ogoni ethnic amunitv of complicity in the ode. of four Ogoni chiefs for which a S4ro-%%'iwa

Ken Saro Wiwa died because he had dared to assert the Ogonis'claims to their In Nigeria, the giant wheels of progress have been leaving a veritable wasteland behi them in the course of their ingress into the home turf of the Ogonis denuding fores

The long hand of death has snatched SaroWiwa from his Ogoni followers, but his ideals remain alive in their hearts and minds

IN a world primarily by the dynamics of the global Market,where rules are made and broken at the whims of Corporate gaint, a parallel force is slowly but steadily gaining Ground. It is the force

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