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Shell to Pay Bayelsa Residents $1.5 million for Oil Spill-Senate
On August 24, the Senate passed a resolution ordering Royal Dutch Shell to pay 1.5 billion US dollars to Ijaw residents of Bayelsa State, in response to a petition from a group claiming to represent them. The petitioners claimed environmental damage from oil spills and other oil operations had killed, injured and ruined the Ijaws […]
Land Use Act Chapter 202 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990
This Act may be cited as the Land Use Act 1978. read full text
Oil and The Niger Delta People: The Injustice of The Land Use Act
“All lands and natural resources (including mineral resources) within the Ijaw territory belong to the Ijaw communities and are the basis of our survival…We cease to recognise all undemocratic decrees that rob our peoples/communities of the right to ownership and control of our lives and resources, which were enacted without our participation and consent. These […]
The Land Use Act
An Act to Vest all Land compromised in the territory of each State (except land vested in the Federal government or its agencies) solely in the Governor of the State , who would hold such Land in trust for the people and would henceforth be responsible for allocation of land in all urban areas to […]