The Ondo State High Court in Ore has struck out the memorandum of appearance and statement of defence filed by the state's Attorney General (AG) in the case between the state government and a private company, Sao Agro-Allied Services Limited and over 10,000 farmers from its Oluwa Forest Reserve. The decision of the court comes after the aggrieved farmers protested against their forceful eviction from the forest reserve and sued the state government through their counsel, Tope Temokun.
Situated in western Nigeria, some 70 kilometers (113 miles) east of Nigeria’s commercial city of Lagos, Oluwa Forest Reserve is facing severe pressure from smallholder farmers and big plantations. On Highway A121, a major route between Lagos and the city of Ore that bissects the reserve, Mongabay observed heavily loaded trucks and motorbikes driving plantain […]
Cocoa farmers in communities within the Oluwa Forest reserve in Odigbo Local Council, Ondo State have raised the alarm over alleged destruction of their cocoa plantation worth N500m by the government.
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Early February 1989. A blue helicopter, partly tinted in green and white, emerged from the clouds of Kanyang, in Nigeria’s Cross River state. Gabriel Osanja, then 22, stood among the crowd peering up. The night before, as he tarried in thoughts at the fireside, a moment like this had seemed remote, even dreamy. And yet, […]