The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through an analysis of historical data, climate forecasts, hydrological modeling and the report identifying varying degrees of flood risk across different regions and …
August 2005 was another rough time for oil major Shell Oil's Nigeria operation. Frustrated over lack of adequate compensation by the company for a devastating oil spill in December 2003, host communities shut down two of Shell's pumping stations that produce around 40,000 barrels of oil daily. While Shell admitted …
Flaring concern: Nigeria's rural communities affected by gas-flaring recently filed a lawsuit in the federal High Court in Benin city to make oil giants Shell, Exxon, Chevron and Total desist from the illegal practice. The Nigerian government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation have also been named in the case, …
Nigeria's army has been accused of killing at least 30 people and setting ablaze many houses while investigating an oil dispute between two communities. The communities living in the neighbouring towns of Odioma and Obioku in southern Niger Delta claim ownership of a patch of swampland, Owukubu, where oil giant …
Nigeria's Adamawa state recently witnessed a weeklong fierce battle between nomadic herdsmen and farmers. In the deadliest of these clashes, ethnic Fulani herdsmen attacked the farming village of Bali, killing 28 people. At least 30 people were killed in all. "Farmers in the area complain that cattle graze on their …
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), a subsidiary of petroleum giant Royal Dutch/Shell, will have to clean up more than 250 oil spills linked to its operations in Nigeria's Rivers State. Rivers State governor Peter Odili recently made this known to SPDC managing director Basil Omiyi. Odili said …
bypassing the Nigerian government, oil company Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (spdcnl) has decided to fund human development activities in the country through direct partnership with the un Development Programme (undp). Ironically, it is the oil exploration activities undertaken by companies like Shell that sparked rebellion in the …
Petroleum giant Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Shell) will have to pay the Ijaw, a Nigerian ethnic group, US $1.5 billion for causing oil spills in their homeland since 1956. The Nigerian senate asked the company on August 24, 2004, to pay the compensation. Though the senate can't enforce the order …
Where does fact end and fiction begin? An oil spill in the southern Nigerian swamp led to the destruction of over 200 hectares of forest and agricultural land. This is the third time in the last month that such an incident has occurred. Residents allege that Shell petroleum company is …
an optimistic note, about wiping out polio from the six afflicted countries, was to be sounded at a conference organised by the World Health Organisation (who) in Geneva on January 15. Instead, the sudden re-emergence of the disease in two African nations
• The Federal High Court in Lagos, Nigeria, has awarded (Nigerian dollar) N1.4 billion (Rs 45 crore) to three communities in the country's Bayelsa and Rivers States as ecological damages, resulting from the 1998 crude oil spillage from Mobil Nigeria Limited's pipeline in Akwa-Ibom State. The communities had instituted separate …
Nigerians have developed a unique response to strikes, as was seen on October 6, 2003. Thousands of panic-stricken people besieged banks to withdraw money and stockpile food even as the Nigeria Labour Congress (nlc) announced another round of action, to protest a 12 per cent hike in fuel prices. At …
Accidental poisoning is common in children. Potassium bromate is a commonly used additive and raising agent in many edibles particularly break, a staple food worldwide, yet its accidental poisoning has hitherto, not been documented in Nigeria. Original Source
Oil major Shell has decided to publish details of its payments made to the Nigerian government, which amounted to us $900 million last year, following a campaign by human rights groups and the uk to reduce corruption in oil and mineral-rich developing countries. Meanwhile, more than 100 people were killed …
easy rabies cure: Tobacco plants have been genetically modified to produce proteins used to combat the rabies virus. Till now, the only way to fight the virus was to use antibodies derived from either horses or humans; but they are difficult to get. Researchers from the Thomas Jefferson University, USA, …
Multinational oil giants Chevron Texaco Oil Company, Shell and Total Fina Elf have shut down operations in Nigeria's trouble-torn southern Delta region. The companies estimate that the disruptions have reduced Nigeria's daily oil output by about 30 per cent. The country is the world's sixth largest oil exporter. Dozens of …
• Oil provides energy for 95 per cent of the world’s transportation - Exxon-Mobil, the world’s largest oil company, had an annual profit of US $17 billion in 2001 (equivalent to about five per cent of India’s GDP) - Oil, which could have made Nigeria one of the world’s wealthiest …
Frequent oil spills are wreaking havoc on the delta town of Okpella in Nigeria's Edo state. In the most recent incident, a pipeline of Nigerian National Petroleum Company
The Nigerian government has sounded a toxic waste alarm. It claims to have unearthed a plan by oil producing firms to dump 35,000 metric tonnes of waste in the country. The petroleum and energy department has issued a stern warning to all companies, directing them to follow the waste disposal …
