Professor Akii Ibhadode is a distinguished Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and Shell Professor of Lightweight Automobile Engine Development. He obtained a B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) in the First Class, University of Lagos in 1981, M.Eng. (Production Engineering), University of Benin in 1984, and a Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), University of Birmingham, United Kingdom in 1987.
Prof. Ibhadode’s unprecedented footprints as a distinguished scholar, researcher and administrator bestride the University of Benin from 1982, and the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), Delta State where he was the Vice-Chancellor. He has engineered ground breaking researches leading to outstanding innovations that have attracted both local and global accolades. Amongst these accomplishments include:
Oil spill damage in the Niger Delta region, April 6, 2010 (Flickr/Sosialistisk Ungdom)
Simon Ayafa has witnessed oil pollution in the Niger Delta region since he was 15. Now, at 35, he feels the region has been made uninhabitable by decades of oil spills. You to go the stream to fetch water and you get oil, said Ayafa, who is a parishioner at St. Paul s Catholic Church in Bodo, a fishing village that has suffered from massive oil spills. You go to the farm and the crops are damaged and cannot produce because of pollution. That is our fate here.
A series of pipeline spills between 2008 and 2009 left the entire area flowing in oil. With support from Amnesty International, the community took legal action against Royal Dutch Shell. The case was settled out of court in 2015 for the equivalent of about $36.6 million, with part going to the community and the rest divided among the community s residents.
The introduction of technology in the nation’s oil and gas industry will enhance transparency and accountability, writes Jackson Onyukwu
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), is the statutory regulatory agency for petroleum in Nigeria. Oil is the main foreign exchange earner for the nation. Therefore oil is the fiscal breath of Nigeria.
This explains why all eyes are on crude oil. Government officials are watching. Nigerians can’t stop talking crude and its value chain. This places a huge burden on DPR. It must be alert and alive to its duties otherwise the nation loses. From its journey in 1971 functioning with different names under different ministries through 1988 when it was renamed DPR and given full autonomy to regulate the petroleum industry till late 2019, DPR has discharged its responsibility to the best of its ability. But question marks still persisted on its ability and courage to stop the haemorrhage in both the upstream and downstream sectors of the industr
Businesses should be wary of class action lawsuits as groundbreaking Shell decision has global reach
Class actions are becoming increasingly common in the UK.
Class action lawsuits are becoming increasingly popular in the UK, and a combination of the coronavirus, Brexit and previous claimant-favourable outcomes will mean UK companies see more action against them in the coming years.
Britain is part of something of a third wave of class action lawsuit popularity.
The practice of collective claims started in the United States, where it is still rife, then moved to Australia, where it became so popular the Australian government is looking at ways to regulate the sector. Class actions are now growing in popularity in Britain.
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