Thousands of Ogonis joined by several Civil Society and Human rights groups took to the streets of Port Harcourt on November 10 2011 to protest against another attempt by the Rivers State Government of Nigeria to dispossess over 3000 peasant farmers in Ogoni of their farm lands. Read full Report

Over 700 families in Ogoniland are angry with the Rivers State government over what they allege was a forceful land acquisition by the state Ministry of Agriculture.

Consequently, the families, under the Ogoni Solidarity Forum and Ogoni Civil Society Platform have joined forces with two non-governmental organisations - the Social and Economic Rights Action Centre (SERAC) and Social Action (SA) - to show their displeasure and concern over what they described as the “grave human rights and due process breaches” by the Rivers State government.

The federal, States and local governments shared the sum of in the month of N1.5 Trillion as allocation for the month of July 2011.  This amounted to ‘triple allocations’ and were disbursed to the three tiers of government in July 2011 during the monthly meeting of the Federation account Allocation Committee (FAAC) in Abuja. The allocations came from Statutory and VAT disbursement, Budget Differential Bonus and from Excess Crude Account.