Two Nigerian communities in the oil-rich Niger Delta have secured a pivotal legal victory against Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), in the Court of App Court of Appeal, as reported by Leigh Day.
The communities, Bille and Ogale, both in Rivers State in the Niger Delta, South-south of Nigeria, commenced the legal action in 2015 at a High Court in the United Kingdom to hold Shell accountable for decades of environmental devastation caused by…
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