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Africa's business competetive disadvantages don't have to adversely affect corporate social accountability

... in the 1950’s. It matters even less that the company was in existence way before then. The company will forever be linked to the case of the Ogoni 9. African business does not operate in an isolated state, as seen by the local impact of ... Read

By: Fiona Mati | 06/07/2009 | Ethics

Transnational Corporations Liability for environmental Harms

... in, and failure to limit, the activities of oil companies that were violating . . . environmental rights of the Ogoni residents." Why there is need for binding international regulations? Now, at this juncture, one question arises, are ... Read

By: sabaha khan | 27/09/2009 | Health & Safety

NIGER DELTA: YAR ADUA AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT:

... from decades of indiscriminate oil waste dumping. Initially as a spoke person and then the president of the Movement for Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degredations of the ... Read

By: Chris Okafor | 15/06/2009 | Politics

Focus On Nigeria

... oil-producing Nigerian Delta region and the compensation for the people of the region. Saro-Wiwa, a writer who fought for the rights of the Ogoni people in the Delta Region was excecuted by Abacha's men in 1995 after a trumped up trial in ... Read

By: Andrew Sandon | 27/11/2006 | Writing

Corporate Social Responsibility

... , Dayr; Betton, John; Pena, Leticia, 2004, p. 5) the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the writer and champion of Ogoni rights in the Niger Delta were the main causes that ignited the Corporate Social Responsibility movement. The forces that are ... Read

By: qqwertyu | 22/10/2009 | Business

Strategies for Maintaining Peace in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

... fully understands the purposes of the working group. (g) Reconciliation Processes: Initial reconciliation efforts will begin with the Ogoni conflict in Rivers State, which dates back to the mid 1990s. In time, this will serve as a model ... Read

By: Victor Izuogu | 28/08/2007 | Politics

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