In a landmark case settled this week, the family of the “Ogoni 9” executed in 1995 received a US$ 15.5 million payout from Royal Dutch Shell company. The case goes back to the 1990’s in Nigeria where it was alleged that Shell had a long history of closely working with the Nigerian government to quell popular opposition to its business operations in the Niger Delta region; home of the Ogoni people.
Even though Nigeria is an oil-rich nation, environmental and human rights activists claim that oil…
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Posted on June 18, 2009 at 11:36am —