Tag: Bodo community
Explosion looms: Residents scoop fuel from burst crude oil pipe in Rivers (Photos)
The latest spill was reported to have occurred in Bodo in the late evening of Wednesday, August 24, 2022, while…
Oil Spillage: Shell to pay Bodo community £55m compensation
Six years after two oil spills destroyed thousands of livelihoods in the Bodo area, of Ogoniland in Nigeria’s Rivers State,…
Nigerian community fights Shell in UK court hearing
Legal arguments begin in court today in a compensation claim brought by about 15,000 members of Nigeria’s Bodo community against…
Bodo community rejects Shell’s $50m over oil spills
Negotiations between Shell and Nigerian residents of Bodo, an Ogoni community affected by two oil spills in 2008 failed to…
Oil Spill: Shell offers to pay Nigerian community $50m
The Shell Petroleum Development Company has offered to pay N7.5 billion, about $50m to the indigenes of Bodo community, Gokana…
Shell to negotiate with Nigerian community over oil spills
Shell is to begin compensation talks with thousands of Nigerian villagers who say their livelihoods were ruined by two massive…