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Nigeria

  • A win for wetlands

    Hyderabad's much-neglected wetlands have finally seen a ray of hope with the Andhra Pradesh High Court ( hc)

  • Filth is food!

    Filth is food!

    Making the best of the worst could be the underlying theme behind the garbage revolution in Nigeria

  • NIGERIA

    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

  • NIGERIA

    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

  • Oil of misery

    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

  • NIGERIA

    NIGERIA

    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

  • IN FOCUS

    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.

  • A mess in the South

    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.

  • Tyranny unabated

    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

  • Outrage

    Outrage

    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

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