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Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo of a Federal High Court, Lagos has fixed March 2 for ruling on whether to entertain a motion challenging its jurisdiction first or contempt proceedings against three banks for allegedly disobeying an order to block Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd bank accounts.
Justice Oguntoyinbo fixed the date after hearing the argument of counsel on which application should be heard first.
The judge took arguments in favour of hearing a committal application filed by the plaintiff AITEO Eastern E & P Company Ltd through its counsel Kemi Pinheiro SAN, who led Oladapo Olanipekun SAN and Emeka Ozoani SAN.
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.
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Reps urge FG to reopen Warri airport in Delta
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By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja
House of Representatives on Tuesday urged the federal government through the ministry of aviation and other relevant ones to reopen Warri airport for full flight operations.
The facility also named after Osubi where it is located in Okpe/Sapeie/vaie Federal constituency of Delta State was closed in February 2020.
The call for its reopening followed a motion under matters of urgent public importance sponsored by the lawmaker representing the constituency in the House, Hon. Oberuakpefe Anthony Afe at Tuesday plenary.
Moving the motion, Are recalled that “Warri airport also known as Osubi Airport is an important facility that was privately owned and operated by a shell. It is located at Osubi Community in Okpe Local Government Area which is under Okpe/Sapeie/vaie Federal constituency of Delta State.”
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The two-day virtual event will hold on February 25 and February 26, 2021.
This year’s edition, themed: “Powering Forward: Enabling Nigeria’s Industrialisation via Gas”, will feature industry experts who will discuss pertinent issues towards the actualisation of a gas-powered economy.
The virtual event will cover sectorial topics such as sustainable funding and policies improvement that currently impact on the possibilities of attaining optimal gas production, transportation, distribution and adoption, whilst charting the way forward, towards economic stability and buoyancy via gas.
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Speaking during the announcement of the event, Audrey Joe-Ezigbo (pictured), NGA’s president, said the conference’s objective is to project and leverage the potential of gas towards enabling and reinvigorating Nigeria’s industrial sector.
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