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11 Sep 2010, 12:14 pm
Protesters Arolika Irowarinun and Bola Oyinbo, were killed in May 1998 on Parabe Oil Platform and several others were injured when Nigerian government security forces, called in by Chevron Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of Chevron, opened fire on... [read post]
28 Jul 2009, 2:25 am
The Kano government had filed a lawsuit [BBC backgrounder] against Pfizer in 2007, accusing the company of administering meningitis medication to 200 Nigerian children, including 100 with the [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 8:37 am
[JURIST] Judges for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] on Friday upheld [opinion, PDF] a verdict in favor of Royal Dutch Shell PLC [corporate website] in a case brought by families of Nigerian protesters who were executed [UNHCR backgrounder] by the previous Nigerian government in 1995 for speaking out against the oil company. [read post]
19 Oct 2006, 12:14 am
[JURIST] Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo [official website; BBC profile] Thursday declared a state of emergency in the Nigerian state of Ekiti [government website] after Governor Ayodele Fayose was impeached by state lawmakers earlier this week following his conviction for corruption charges. [read post]
27 Dec 2009, 4:55 pm
How the Nigerian fire cracker will be spun remains to be seen. [read post]
1 Dec 2007, 10:50 am
" The federal government has limited the power of the religious police-- the Hisbah. [read post]
17 Nov 2008, 7:03 am
It is one of the Nigerian states that has reintroduced Sharia law. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 8:25 am
In June 2009, we reported on this blog that Royal Dutch Shell had reach a multi-million dollar settlement in a lawsuit alleging that its Nigerian subsidiary colluded with the former military government in Nigeria to silence environmental and human rights... [read post]
13 Jul 2008, 7:30 pm
From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:DataCard contends, and a federal judge agrees, that Card Technology Corp. of New Jersey inflated a contract with the Nigerian government to provide bribes to the officials running the identification program in order to win the business. [read post]
19 Mar 2009, 9:00 am
Discrimination - On March 9, 2009, the Nigerian Senate passed into law a bill outlawing discrimination against the disabled. [read post]
28 Nov 2015, 2:14 am
A United Nations human rights expert has called on the Nigerian Government to immediately end unlawful large-scale evictions that are threatening tens of thousands of people with homelessness even as the rainy season rages on, voicing alarm at the violence... [read post]
10 Apr 2009, 9:00 am
Government Ethics - On April 1, 2009, the Nigerian Senate debated the Bill for an Act to Amend the Corruption Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, sponsored by Senator Sola Akinyede, which seeks to make the Independent Corruption... [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 11:44 pm
Microsoft geek Nick Hodge may joke when he titles his post on the Labor Government's "clean feed" proposal, Our Benevolent Federal Government should Filter More, but in the post itself he mentions spam, Nigerian scams, phishing and identity theft to make this excellent point:All of the above are illegal either directly in statute or in common law. [read post]
21 Jan 2008, 12:30 pm
In addition, petitioner showed that conditions for HIV+ people are atrocious in Nigerian prisons. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 1:36 am
After years of slumber and ineptitude, the Nigerian government established the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to battle the menace of cybercrime. [read post]
21 Aug 2013, 4:20 am
The group regards the federal and northern state governments, as well as the country’s political and religious elites, as morally corrupt. [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 6:00 am
” The loss of use damages all arose from the Nigeria allision, and as the situs of the wrongful act, Nigerian law governs. [read post]
9 Jun 2009, 11:47 am
The plaintiffs alleged that Shell officials helped furnish Nigerian police with weapons, participated in security sweeps of the area, and hired government troops that shot at villagers protesting the construction of a pipeline. [read post]
28 Jan 2019, 7:21 am
In their statements the governments questioned the constitutionality of the Nigerian executive suspending the chief justice, noting that this is a separation of powers issue and that the executive branch did not have the support of the legislative branch in making this decision. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 12:39 am
We mean it, whether it is a former Liberal who steals from the government or our party, or a Conservative trying to steal from you. [read post]
