The September 29 Nigerian newspaper “The Vanguard” reported that a military unit of the Joint Task Force fought with Ijaw youth at Jones Creek Island over the weekend, leaving four people dead and several others injured. Ijaw NGO activist Joel Bisina told CRO September 29 that on September 25 or 26 a military Joint Task […]
The residents of Tia, a small farming and fishing community, were devastated recently when an oil pipeline jointly owned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, Ltd. (Shell) exploded burning acres of fertile land and polluting nearby creeks.view full text featured image culled from blog.amnestyusa.org
featured image courtesy of article.wn.com During an early August visit to Port Harcourt, CRO met with the Center for Social and Corporate Responsibility (CSCR), a Port Harcourt-based NGO operating on a grant from Catholic Relief Services, to discuss CSCR’s investigation into the major October 2002 oil spill at a Shell trunk line into Battan creek of […]