Chinese firm ‘illegally’ mines titanium in Nigerian community
The Akwa Ibom state government closed a mining site on Tuesday after accusing a Chinese firm, Ruitai Mining Ltd., of illegally excavating titanium in the...
Nigeria seizes shark fins, donkey genitals worth N1.23 billion
Nigerian authorities have seized wildlife parts worth N1.2 billion, the latest interception of such items that were to be shipped out of the country.
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Bayelsa crude oil poisoning report brings little or no hope
Earlier this month, a fisherman reported oil leaking from an old wellhead at Okpoama, in the southern part of Nigeria’s Bayelsa state. The Niger...
Shell, Eni blamed as high levels of toxins found in humans, fish, crabs in Bayelsa
By Ashoka Mukpo
Oil and gas companies, led by Shell, Eni, Chevron, Total and ExxonMobil, spilled 110,000 barrels of oil into Nigeria’s Bayelsa state over...
Nigerians lose to Shell as UK Supreme Court rules on 2011 oil spill
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Nigerian claimants missed a six-year deadline to sue Shell over a 2011 offshore oil spill.
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