The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a Dutch court on Friday had ordered the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell to pay compensation over the 2008 oil spills in Oruma, Bayelsa State, Goi in Rivers State and Ikot Ada Udo in Akwa Ibom State.
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The team also impounded 50 vehicles and 75 motorcycles during the monthly sanitation, which usually holds from 6 a.m to 9 a.m.
The State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made the disclosure through his verified Twitter account @ProfAkinAbayomi on Saturday, while giving the state’s COVID-19 status for Jan. 28.
This was as 21 States and the Federal Capital Territory recorded 1,114 new infections same day.
In 2008, four Nigerian farmers from Ikot Ada Udo, Oruma and Goi in the Niger Delta, supported by the NGO and sister organization, Milieudefensie/Friends of the Earth Netherlands, sued Shell because of oil pollution in the three Nigerian villages.
This was contained in a statement issued on Friday by the State Commissioner for the Environment and Natural Resources, Dr. Idowu Oyeleke.
The UK Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, disclosed on Friday.
The Minister of State for the FCT, Dr. Ramatu Aliyu, gave the assurance at a stakeholders meeting on new Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 Second Wave Pandemic Enforcement Guidelines held on Friday in Abuja.
In the advisory, the Director-General, NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said people of all age groups who come in contact with the urine, faeces, saliva or blood of rats are at risk of getting Lassa fever.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Thursday.
Google’s Chief Executive Officer, Sundar Pichai, said on Wednesday the global technology enterprise would continue to invest in efforts to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic globally.
Moetti, who was addressing a virtual press conference, said over 175,000 new COVID-19 cases and more than 6,200 deaths were reported in Africa in the last week.
The minister made this known in Abuja on Thursday while on a facility inspection tour of the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development.
Ibrahim Farinloye, Acting Zonal Coordinator, South West Zonal Office, NEMA, made this known on Thursday at a two-day Basic First Aid/Recertification Course organised for emergency responders in Lagos.
Britain announced on Wednesday new measures to reduce travel in and out of the country.
The Governor spoke through the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tunji Bello, at the commissioning of repaired embankment failures located within the premises of Leadership Training Centre, Apapa.
Guterres stated this in a video message to a high-level webinar on the African COVID-19 Vaccine Financing and Development Strategy on Wednesday evening.
The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, made the assertion at a national sensitisation programme on COVID-19 vaccines for Muslim scholars and Imams in Nigeria in Wednesday in Abuja.
The Leader of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control National Rapid Response team working in Benue State, Ikechukwu Oradu, disclosed this during a visit to the Deputy Governor, Benson Abounu, at the Government House in Makurdi on Tuesday
The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Wednesday