Oil Spills: Shell To Pay N’Delta Farmers €15m Compensation

Shell on Friday said it would pay 15 million euros to Niger Delta farmers to compensate them for damage from pipeline leaks. A Dutch appeals court ruled last year, following 13 years of legal battles, that Shell’s Nigerian branch must pay out for a series of leaks and that the parent company must install new pipeline equipment to prevent further devastating spills. Shell said Friday that it had reached a deal with the Dutch environmental group Milieudefensie that has helped the affected communities. “Under the settlement, the Shell Petroleum Development…

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Max Air CEO, Bashir Mangal, Is Dead

The Chief Executive officer of Max Air, Bashir Mangal, is dead. A statement made available by the media consultant to the airline said Mangal died in the early hours of Friday, December 23, 2022. The statement read in part, “Inna lillahi wa inna Ilaihi rajiun, this is to announce the death of our beloved brother Alhaji Bashir Barau Mangal Vice Chairman/ CEO Max Air in the early hours of today Friday 23rd December 2022.May Allah grant him Jannatul Firdaus.” Reacting to the development, the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku…

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