{"id":1182,"date":"2025-09-26T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2025-09-26T00:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:10:41","slug":"ex-nddc-boss-hails-tinubu-for-honouring-ogoni-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NDDC boss hails Tinubu for honouring Ogoni 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Joy Nunieh, has praised President Bola Tinubu for recognising the Ogoni 13, describing it as a long-overdue step toward justice and reconciliation in the Niger Delta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PUNCH Online reports that Tinubu has conferred national\u00a0honours\u00a0on four additional slain Ogoni leaders, sometimes referred to as the Ogoni 4, bringing the total honoured to Ogoni 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Olamide, Wizkid - Kai! 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We have called for this for a very long time that the Ogoni 13 should be honoured and when the Ogoni 9 were honoured we were happy but of course it was incomplete without the Ogoni 4 and so today we\u2019re very grateful that the Ogoni 13 have been honoured.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nunieh, however, urged the Federal Government to go further by issuing a national apology, similar to what she said Australia did for its aboriginal population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd of course we asked for a national apology like it\u2019s been done in Australia. President Rudd did that apologising to the aborigines there and so that\u2019s what we\u2019re asking for but today is the first step and we now see that President Tinubu has shown good governance by taking this bold step which nobody had ever done since the crisis and we\u2019re eternally grateful for that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The execution of the Ogoni 9, including environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, in November 1995 drew global condemnation and remains one of Nigeria\u2019s darkest chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PUNCH Online reports that earlier in June 2025, President Tinubu granted posthumous national\u00a0honours\u00a0and a full presidential pardon to Ken Saro-Wiwa and the other members of the Ogoni 9, nearly 30 years after their execution. <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/ex-nddc-boss-hails-tinubu-for-honouring-ogoni-13\/?utm_source=auto-read-also&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;amp\">(Punch)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Joy Nunieh, has praised President Bola Tinubu for recognising the Ogoni 13, describing it as a long-overdue step toward justice and reconciliation in the Niger Delta. 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