FG demands $11.5 billion compensation from Shell For oil spill
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- Published on Friday, 29 March 2013 15:18
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Two Nigerian government agencies told a parliamentary hearing on Thursday that Royal Dutch Shell should pay a total of $11.5 billion (7.6 billion pounds) in compensation for damage caused by an oil spill at its offshore Bonga field in December 2011.
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DANGER! Shipload of toxic waste at Lagos port
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- Published on Thursday, 10 January 2013 12:42
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Security and environmental officials, yesterday, quarantined a ship laden with e-waste which they said is toxic and posed major threat to humans. The ship, M.V Marevia brought in two containers considered very dangerous and sent port officials into a panic mode.
JW_DISQUS_ADD_A_COMMENTFour farmers commit suicide over flood losses
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- Published on Tuesday, 16 October 2012 08:38
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Four farmers whose farmlands were washed away by the flood that has ravaged Nigeria's central Kogi state, among other states, have committed suicide, the local media reported Monday. The reports quoted President Goodluck Jonathan as making the revelation during a tour of the camps for those displaced by the flood in his home state of Bayelsa.
JW_DISQUS_ADD_A_COMMENTSERAP, Amnesty Int. hail judgment calling to punish oil companies over pollution
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 December 2012 09:19
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Amnesty International and Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) have hailed last Friday’s ECOWAS Court of Justice ground-breaking judgment as a “key moment in holding governments and companies to account for pollution.”
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Jonathan calls floods a 'national disaster'
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- Published on Friday, 12 October 2012 07:15
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday visited some of the hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the country's worst flooding in at least five decades, calling it a 'national disaster'.
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