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President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has been dragged to the ECOWAS Court of Justice over illegal pipelines and oil theft. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in a statement on Sunday said it filed a lawsuit against the current administration over “the failure to probe the operations of illegal oil pipelines between 2001 and 2022, to name and prosecute those suspected to be involved, and to recover proceeds of crime.”

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the government under President Muhammadu Buhari over its failure

Beatrice Barine still prepares meals with polluted fish her husband, a fisherman, gets from Nuumu-Goi River in Goi community, Gokana Local Council of Rivers State despite the report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which warned that water and crops in the area are highly polluted and harmful to the body.

About one year after a judgment by a Dutch Appeal Court in the Hague, Netherlands ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to pay compensation to four Niger Delta farmers for devastating their farmlands, the oil company has opened a mediation process to resolve the lingering dispute.

Oil spills: Niger Delta communities ‘get’ over N836bn in 7 years In the last seven years, various courts have awarded the sum of N836.318bn (N98.318 billion and over $1.8billion) to oil-producing communities in Niger Delta... Women group protesting in front of ExxonMobil office By Sun Jul 11 2021 In the last seven years, various courts have awarded the sum of N836.318bn (N98.318 billion and over $1.8billion) to oil-producing communities in Niger Delta as compensations for oil spills and land encroachment, an independent data seen by Daily Trust on Sunday indicated. Some of the court’s d...