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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has urged the ExxonMobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited to urgently comply with the recent Federal High Court judgement which ordered it to pay the sum of N81.9 billion as compensation for oil spills from the company’s facilities which occurred between 2000 and 2010. Dr. Godwin Uyi Ojo, Executive Director of the Environmental ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay the oil communities in Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State a cumulative damages of N81.9 billion over oil spillage. A water body in the Niger Delta polluted by crude oil Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a judgment debt, ordered that ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 ordered the Nigeria Pipeline and Storage Company (NPSC) Limited to pay N5 million in damages to Kosawa Community in Kura Local Government Area of Kano State. Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State The plaintiffs on behalf of over 300 impacted persons include: indigenes of Kosawa Community, Abubakar Mijinyawa, ...

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 fixed March 9 for ruling in a suit by Aiteo Eastern E&P Company Ltd against Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) and four others. The Federal High Court in Lagos Aiteo is claiming about $4 billion against SPDC over alleged problems with the Nembe Creek Trunk Line (NCTL) ...

The leadership crisis currently rocking the Benin City-based civil society organisation (CSO), Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), appears to have taken a fresh turn with the faction headed by Dr. Godwin Uyi Ojo disclosing in a statement on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 that “former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, ERA/FoEN, Arc. Nnimmo Bassey and a former ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has restrained Rev. Nnimmo Bassey from parading or holding out himself as the Chairman of Board of Trustees of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) pending the hearing of the motion on notice. Nnimmo Bassey, Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) The court also specifically restrains Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) ...