Owens Wiwa

Quick Facts

Full Name	Owens Wiwa
Occupation	Medical Doctor
Date Of Birth	Oct 10, 1957(1957-10-10)
Age	67
Birthplace	Nigeria
Country	Nigeria
Horoscope	Libra

Owens Wiwa Biography

Owens Wiwa is one of the most popular and richest Medical Doctor who was born on October 10, 1957 in Nigeria, Nigeria.

Wiwa graduated from medical school at the University of Calabar in 1985 and completed his internship at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. In 1989, he founded his own private clinic in the Ogoni town of Bori.

In 1990, Ken Saro-Wiwa, a popular writer, television personality and businessman, founded the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), a non-violent action group which called for Ogoni political self- determination and a greater share of petroleum revenue from the Nigerian government, as well as the ownership of the petroleum beneath their land. MOSOP claimed that pollution resulting from Shell’s oil extraction turned their once abundant kingdoms into an ecological wasteland, their air reeking of sulphur, their water holes and creeks poisoned with petroleum, their night sky turned by burning gas flares into a perpetual twilight. For its part, Shell insisted that allegations of environmental devastation in Ogoniland were not true. “Any industrial enterprise, including oil operations, has an impact on the environment, and this is true in Ogoni,” Shell said in an official statement. “A further impact on the lives of people in the area comes from the rapidly expanding population which has caused deforestation, erosion and over- farming leading to degraded soil.”

Owens Wiwa Net Worth

Owens Wiwa is one of the richest Medical Doctor from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Owens Wiwa 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Monday Owens Wiwa (born 10 October 1957 in Bori, Nigeria) is a medical doctor and human rights activist. He is the brother of executed Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa, and the son of Ogoni chief Jim Wiwa. Wiwa is an internationally renowned expert on the effects of globalisation, especially as it relates to the highly controversial business practices of Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta. Vice-chairman of the Toronto chapter of the Sierra Club Canada and an active member of Amnesty International, Wiwa is frequently called upon to advocate for development programs in Canada and abroad and to campaign for increased corporate responsibility. This work has taken him to Ireland, which he visits in support of the Shell to Sea campaign. Currently, he is the Country Director for the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Nigeria.

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Tensions in the delta increased in June 1993 after Saro-Wiwa was arrested and charged with sedition. After extensive pressure by Amnesty International and other groups, he was released a month later on bail. During this period, the government dispatched soldiers to seal off Ogoniland from the outside world, but on 30 July, the police were mysteriously removed from the area.

Facts & Trivia

Paolo Ranked on the list of most popular Medical Doctor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Owens Wiwa celebrates birthday on October 10 of every year.

On 24 May 1994, a massacre occurred at the palace of the Chief of the Gokana. Four Ogoni leaders sympathetic to the government and Shell were set upon by a mob chanting “vulture, vulture.” They were beaten to death with clubs and burned. The military accused Ken Saro-Wiwa of inciting the attack even though he had been barred from entering Ogoniland earlier that day at a police roadblock. Nevertheless, Ken was arrested along with 15 others. They were held without charge, clamped in leg irons and tortured.