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- proper noun The region of
southeastern Nigeria inhabited by theOgoni people.
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Examples
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The report states only 10 % of the oil pollution in Ogoniland has been caused by company negligence, and concludes that 90 % of the spills area result of local people illegally stealing oil and sabotaging pipelines.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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The report states only 10 % of the oil pollution in Ogoniland has been caused by company negligence, and concludes that 90 % of the spills area result of local people illegally stealing oil and sabotaging pipelines.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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The report states only 10 % of the oil pollution in Ogoniland has been caused by company negligence, and concludes that 90 % of the spills area result of local people illegally stealing oil and sabotaging pipelines.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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The report states only 10 % of the oil pollution in Ogoniland has been caused by company negligence, and concludes that 90 % of the spills area result of local people illegally stealing oil and sabotaging pipelines.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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Mr. Steiner said the report provided the scientific basis on which a long-overdue environmental restoration of the area, known as Ogoniland, can begin.
In Nigeria, a Big Oil Toll Alexis Flynn 2011
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Rumuekpe is just one of several case studies examined by the report which alleges, that in 2009 and 2010, security personnel guarding Shell facilities were responsible for extra-judicial killings and torture in Ogoniland.
Shell accused of fuelling violence in Nigeria by paying rival militant gangs 2011
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Court documents now reveal that in the 1990s Shell routinely worked with Nigeria's military and mobile police to suppress resistance to its oil activities, often from activists in Ogoniland, in the delta region.
Shell oil paid Nigerian military to put down protests, court documents show 2011
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The following year, after about 300,000 people – around half the Ogoni population – took part in peaceful marches and demonstrations across the region, the military government of General Sani Abacha sent in the troops and Ogoniland was occupied.
Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa's daughter remembers her father 2011
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Rumuekpe is just one of several case studies examined by the report which alleges, that in 2009 and 2010, security personnel guarding Shell facilities were responsible for extra-judicial killings and torture in Ogoniland.
Shell accused of fuelling violence in Nigeria by paying rival militant gangs 2011
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Shell oil activities in Ogoniland in the Niger delta have polluted rivers.
Shell oil paid Nigerian military to put down protests, court documents show 2011
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