The Ogoni is an ethnic group located in Rivers South-East senatorial district of Rivers State, in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria. [2][3] They number just over 2 million and live in a 1,050-square-kilometre (404-square-mile) homeland which they also refer to as Ogoniland.

Jun 7, 2016 · The Ogoni are a minority ethnic people who live in the Western Niger Delta Region of southern Nigeria. During the 1970s, Ogoniland, or the Ogoni Nation, became part of the Rivers State of Nigeria. There are approximately 500,000 Ogoni who represent less than 0.05 percent of Nigeria's 100 to 120 million people.

Jun 21, 2017 · The Ogoni people are an indigenous people in South-Eastern Nigeria, in the Niger Delta. They represent around 1 percent of the Nigerian population and are a ethno-linguistic group. The Ogoni have, since the independence of Nigeria, suffered under systematic political marginalisation and environmental degradation of their ancestral lands.

The Ogoni people have been a member of the UNPO since 1993. The Ogoni people’s distinct cultural identity and their ongoing struggles against environmental degradation, socio-economic marginalization, and political exclusion highlight their status as …

The Ogoni People live mainly in the Niger Delta in South Nigeria and their population consists of more than 500.000 people organized in six kingdoms and speaking four languages.

The Ogoni culture (also known as the Ogonis) are people in the region of Southeastern Senatorial district in Rivers State Nigeria. They now number about over two million people and live in a 404-square-mile (1,050 km2) homeland which they also refer to as Ogoni, or Ogoniland.

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), is a social movement organization representing the indigenous Ogoni people [1] [2] of Rivers State, Nigeria.

Aug 7, 2023 · The Ogoni people are a people who are indigenous to Nigeria, the people of this ethnic group have made quite a name for themselves even though they are not as well known as some other more popular ethnic groups in the country.

Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941-1995) was a leading member of the Ogoni tribe of some 500,000 people, living in densely populated Ogoniland in south-eastern Nigeria. He was a central figure in the struggle to stop the devastation of the Niger Delta, which continues to be polluted by large scale oil extraction up to this day.

The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) is an Ogoni-based non-governmental, non-political apex organisation of the Ogoni ethnic minority people of South-Eastern Nigeria and was founded in 1990 with the mandate to campaign non-violently to: • Promote democratic awareness; • Protect the environment of the Ogoni People; • Seek ...