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Nigeria: Shell Oil Vs Nigeria's Bodo Community - UK Court to Deliver Judgment Friday
Vanguard, 23 May 2018
A Court in London will deliver judgment on Friday in a case filed by lawyers for the Bodo community in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta. Read more »
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Nigeria: Shell's Oil Spill Dispute With Villagers Back in UK Court
This Day, 23 May 2018
Lawyers for the Bodo community in Ogoniland of Rivers State, which was devastated by two major oil spills in 2008, went to court in London yesterday to fend off what they said was… Read more »
Oil Spill Dispute With Nigerian Villagers Back in UK Court
The Bodo oil spills has been the subject of years of legal wrangling. In 2015, Shell accepted liability for the spills, agreeing to pay U.S.$83 million to villagers, and to clean up their lands and waterways. The oil spills had a catastrophic impact on many communities where people have no other water supply than the creeks and rely on farming and fishing for survival.
Pastor Christian Lekoya Kpandei's hand covered in oily mud, Bodo Creek, in 2011. His fish farm once provided a living for about 30 families. Its collapse forced him to move to a single-room apartment, to pull his youngest child out of school and left him with no regular source of income.
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Nigeria: Shell Clears Air On Bodo Oil Spill Pollution Clean-Up
Guardian, 23 April 2018
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) said it has commenced the clean-up of Bodo oil spill since September 2017 with the removal of free-phase surface… Read more »
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Nigeria: Crude Oil Spillage Wrecks Havoc in Odimodi Community
Vanguard, 22 May 2018
A devastating oil spillage has occurred on the 24 inches Trans Ramos crude oil pipeline owned by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), in Odimodi Community in Burutu Local… Read more »
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Nigeria: Shell Arrests Judgment in N122bn Debt Suit
Vanguard, 23 May 2018
Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has arrested the judgment in the suit by Ejama community, an Ogoni community in Rivers State, against it (SPDC) and First Bank Limited… Read more »
InFocus
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In 2008 and 2009, two incidents of massive oil spills from the Trans-Niger pipeline devastated the Bodo coastline destroying every living thing in the river. Bodo and other ... Read more »
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The widows of four of men executed by Nigeria's military regime in 1995 have filed a civil lawsuit seeking compensation and an apology from Royal Dutch Shell for alleged complicity ... Read more »
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Amnesty International has accused oil giants Shell and ENI of serious negligence for the manner in which oil spills are being addressed, saying they are publishing misleading ... Read more »
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The Court of Appeal in London has ruled that two Nigerian communities cannot pursue Royal Dutch Shell in the country's courts over oil spills in Nigeria's Delta region, because the ... Read more »
