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Nigerians lose UK Supreme Court’s case over Shell oil spill

The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that it was too late for a group of Nigerian claimants to sue two Shell subsidiaries over a 2011 spill off the coast of Nigeria’s Niger Delta. The legal case, launched by residents of Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta, is one of a series of legal battles Shell has been […]

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Former Nigerian militants get contracts to combat oil theft

Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC announced it has hired a firm owned by former militant Tompolo, whose movement’s attacks on facilities in the early 2000s crippled oil production, to protect installations and tackle rampant theft. It was one of five security contracts awarded as theft and pipeline sabotage have cut Nigeria’s oil exports by nearly […]