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Sister Majella McCarron, who has died at the age of 84, was a highly driven campaigner for environmental and social justice and the rights of migrants and worked closely with Nigerian poet Ken ­Saro-Wiwa up until his execution in November 1995.

Twenty-eight years after oil exploration activities were halted in Ogoni land, Rivers State, the Movement for the survival of the Ogoni people has agreed to allow the resumption of oil drilling in the area.

  The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), has insisted that exonerating the nine Ogoni civil rights activists including Ken Saro-Wiwa who were murdered on November 10, 1995, must be among the conditions for resolving the Ogoni crises by the Nigerian government. Saro-Wiwa, a writer and activist, heavily condemned the Nigerian military regime and the Anglo-Dutch petroleum company Royal Dutch/Shell for causing environmental damage to Ogoni land in his native Rivers State.

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has called for the exoneration of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others of Ogoni activists executed on November 10, 1995 by the late General Sani Abacha-led military government. This was according to a statement issued by the President of MOSOP, Fegalo Nsuke, who urged the Nigerian government to reconsider the tribunal judgement that sentenced the nine Ogonis to death in 1995, including Ken Saro-Wiwa, John Kpuinen, Baribor Bera, Saturday Doobee,...

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  The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), has insisted that exonerating the nine Ogoni civil rights activists including Ken Saro-Wiwa who were murdered on November 10, 1995, must be among the conditions for resolving the Ogoni crises by the Nigerian government. MOSOP also called on the Nigerian government to fully accept the Ogoni proposals for the operation of the Ogoni Development Authority as recommended by the MOSOP Central Committee.

The mass‐based social movement organisation of the indigenous Ogoni people of Central Niger Delta said reviewing the unjust execution of nine Ogonis in 1995 will give room for true reconciliation in Ogoni land.

The women - Esther Kiobel, Victoria Bera, Blessing Eawo, and Charity Levula - sued Shell for its alleged role in the unlawful arrest, detention, and execution of their husbands, for opposing the oil giant and the military government.

The emerging development in Europe is likely to be an added boost to environmental activism in Nigeria, where the renowned

President Buhari recently hinted about possible posthumous state pardons for Saro-Wiwa and others executed by the General Sani Abacha dictatorial regime.