Category: Politics – Civil Rights
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Frederick Fasehun; Social-political activist and founder of the Oduduwa People’s Congress OPC, the NADECO-contemporary established during General Abacha’s regime to protect Yoruba interest. Though Fasehun is a medical doctor with chains of degrees, his association was pioneered by grassroots persons of lesser education, with whom an effective machinery was devised to speedily attract new members.…
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Anthony Enahoro; Nigerian nationalist and politician of the first republic. Enahoro as an Action Group, AG parliamentarian in 1953 moved a motion for self-rule in the Federal house which proposed that Nigeria should have its independence in 1956[i]. He was detained during the emergency period in the Western Region following the Action Group crisis in…
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Ken Saro-Wiwa; Nigerian Environmentalist and author. Ken Saro-Wiwa was the President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP an organisation founded to defend the environmental and human rights of Ogoni people of the Niger Delta. Oil of commercial quantity was found in Ogoniland in 1958, but it also created political problems, environmental…
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Margaret Ekpo; first Nigerian woman to be elected a Member of Parliament in 1961. She contested on the platform of the National Council of Nigerian Citizens, NCNC, and won a seat to the Eastern House of Assembly. As a member of the House, Ekpo was elected as part of the delegation to the constitutional conference…
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Isaac Adaka Boro was a Minority rights activist and hero of the Nigerian Civil War on the side of the federal government, who paradoxically was himself a former secessionist, declaring in February 1966, an independent state of the Niger Delta People’s Republic. Boro was born in 1938 in the town of Oloibiri where oil will be…
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Niger Delta Conflict saw a series of insurgencies in the oil producing creeks of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, threatening the country’s Oil and gas industry which provides about 85% of the federal government’s revenue. Due to activities of militant groups such as the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), seeking redress…
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National Democratic Coalition, widely known as NADECO, was the pro-democracy group launched 15 May 1994 under the leadership of Micheal Adekunle Ajasin and Anthony Enahoro. This group consisted of many prominent Nigerians, including established politicians and senior military officers who shared in common, a believe that the military government in Nigeria should relinquish power to…