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Here are articles wrritten by Comrade Sunny Ofehe and interviews. Click on the title to read more.
HNDC DELEGATION's VISIT TO THE NIGERIA VICE PRESIDENT DR. GOODLUCK JONATHAN
The Hope for Niger Delta Campaign (HNDC) main objective of contributing to a peaceful Niger Delta by ensuring that an enduring solution is realized in the current crisis that has engulfed the Niger delta region took a positive step when His Excellency the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Dr. Goodluck Jonathan invited [...]
HNDC DELEGATION'S VISIT TO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
A delegation of HNDC and also members of the committee set up to transcend the length and breadth of the Niger Delta scouring for informative media that could bring together all stakeholders in an exertion to attain peace in a non violent approach met with the Nigeria House of Representative Ad-Hoc Committee on the Niger [...]
Visit to an illegal oilrefinery
It has been told that poverty as a result of deprivation has led the people of the Niger Delta to engage in dangerous vices to survive in their region. We have often seen on television and heard on the news of how the people of this region scramble for crude oil from sabotaged oil pipelines [...]
H.N.D.C. visits M.E.N.D. FOR PEACE TALK
As part of our extensive international campaign to see that an enduring peace returns to the Niger Delta, our Founder/President Comrade Sunny Ofehe led a team of three Americans and a Dutch to visit the camps of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to appeal for PEACE! It was a very risky [...]
NIGER DELTA PEACE PROPOSAL
BACKGROUND INFORMATION Nigeria is the largest producer of crude oil in Africa and the eight largest producers in the World. The Niger Delta region is the main oil producing area and thereby account for 98% of the nation’s crude oil production which has made them the main revenue-generating region in the country. The Niger Delta region comprises [...]
OIL AND YOUTH RESTIVENESS IN THE NIGER DELTA
The unending crisis in the Niger delta region which rose to a crescendo boiling point with the bombing of Oil installations and the kidnap of four foreign Oil workers is caused by lack of understanding between stakeholders in the Oil rich region. The companies on their own have always failed to keep to the term [...]
NIGER DELTA STANDS FOR NON-VIOLENCE!
Hope for Niger Delta Campaign, HNDC, The Netherlands have watched with keen interest the recent sad development in the Niger Delta involving the bombing of Oil installations and the kidnapping of foreign Oil workers by some militant group. Based on our commitment to peace, justice and use of nonviolence we have decided the following after an [...]
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN THE NIGER DELTA
While the States in the Niger Delta region are happy and proud to bear the crude oil that is the mainstay of the Nigerian economy, we call on the Federal Government, oil and gas companies and indeed the entire nation to go beyond the legalistic realm in addressing the mirage of problems which oil bearing [...]
STOP: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
November 25 has been marked as the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women by women activists worldwide. This day is marked with the brutal assassination, in 1961, of the three Mirabal sisters who were political activists in the Dominican Republic. The Mirabal sisters are a symbol of resistance against the dictatorship in the [...]
RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
The agitation and clamour for Resource Control has led to abuse of basic fundamental human rights in the Niger Delta. The issue of human rights needs to be properly addressed and corrected. Human rights are our common heritage and their realization depends on the contributions that each [...]
NIGER DELTA CITIZENS SHALL OVERCOME
I am happy to join with you today in the month of the 10th memorial of our great Ken Saro-Wiwa in what will go down in History as the greatest demonstration for Freedom in the history of our Nation. Ten years ago, a great Nigerian, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, began the liberation of [...]
SHELL SYMBOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION
Tracking the behavior of Royal Dutch Shell from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio to the WSSD in Johannesburg is particularly instructive in drawing out how global corporations have pursued a pro-environment and human rights public-relations strategy on the one hand, while continuing to be deeply engaged in destructive activity on the other. At the first [...]
SEEKING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
SEEKING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE OF NIGER DELTA… …ten years after the death of Mr. Ken Saro Wiwa. My name is Mr. Sunny Ofehe, a Nigerian from the Niger Delta region. I am an Environmental and Human Rights Activist based here in The Netherlands. I want to use this medium to draw the attention of the [...]
INTERVIEW WITH THE MEDIA
Question 1 You are popularly referred to as a comrade; can you please give us a brief breakdown about your activist’s profile? Answer I got this comrade status in my days as a student of the University of Benin in the early nineties. I played an active role in the student union government and I was known [...]