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Article

12 Mar 2003

Author:
Lemmy Ughegbe, Vanguard [Nigeria]

Reps Order Shell to Pay Ijaw $1.5b Compensation [Nigeria]

...the House of Representatives [of Nigeria] has ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Nigeria Limited to pay the sum of US$1.5 billion to Ijaw Aborigines of Bayelsa State as compensation for the untold hardship and environmental devastation it has brought the Ijaws since 1956.