Landmark Verdict in Nigeria Oil Case
A Niger Delta farmer will receive compensation after a Hague Court found Shell's local subsidiary "partly liable" for damage to farmlands.
Photo: Dulue Mbachu/IRIN
Environmental damage from an oil spill in Kegbara-Dere in the Ogoni district of the Niger Delta.
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If Nigerians have to go abroad to obtain justice, as evidenced in the case of James Ibori who was declared innocent by the Nigerian judiciary but found guilty by the English judiciary for the same offence, it is either the Nigerian judiciary is grossly incompetent or corrupt or - most probably - both. It also raises the question whether Nigeria is truly an independent country.
Disgraceful. Nigeria has no Government. We have many men and women in government with university degrees stacked one over the other, yet the country is languishing in confusion and corruption. Who are these people. Are they Nigerians?