The aim of this website is to provide information about the ongoing situation of environmental and social diseases that the Nigerian population of Ogoni, a not so small minority of Nigeria, has been facing in the last 13 years.

Looking at the maps of Nigeria, we can see where the Ogoni live. Their land could be very fertile, the climate is propitious and natural resources such as natural gas, petroleum, tin, columbite, iron ore, coal, limestone, lead, zinc, arable land abound.

 My research aims to establish what consequences the mismanagement of this “beautiful land” is causing on the environment and subsequently to people’s health, and how this has not been arrested but encouraged by the government of Nigeria.

 

         So, what is the problem?

 

        Why the Ogoni?

 

        What was Ogoni’s response?

 

        What can I do?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The website is part of a project that I am undertaking as part of assessment of an IBO course in Human Rights at the Red Cross Nordic United World College in Norway.

For any information, you can contact me, Irene Tommasi, at my email address or my teacher, Gunvant Govindjee