The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has continued keeping Nigerians entertained via its twitter account. Hilarious
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A London high court has rule that two communities in Niger Delta region, who were allegedly polluted by Shell cannot get any compensation from the oil company.
The two communities in the Niger Delta, Ogale and Bille allege that decades of oil spills have polluted their fishing waters and contaminated their farmland.
BBC AFRICA reported that the case against Shell was brought by two communities, Ogale and Bille. The law suit was brought by more than 2,000 fishermen and their families in the Bille kingdom, and another by about 40,000 people in the Ogale community in Ogoniland, in the oil-rich Niger delta.
The London High stated that the case against Royal Dutch Shell, and its subsidiary Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, did not have the prospect of success and therefore could not proceed.
The court decided that the oil spill which affected 40,000 people should be heard in a Nigeria court and not a foreign court.
The lawyer of the two communities affected by the spill said they would appeal the ruling of the London High Court.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian government has won back ownership of OPL 245 which is considered the largest oil block in Africa with over 9 billion barrels of crude.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured a court order mandating the return of the oil block to the federal government.
The order was granted by Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court on Thursday, January 26 morning, pending “the conclusion of investigations…”
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The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has tasked graduates to stop complaining and blaming government and others for challenges they encounter in life.
He said neither government nor the citizens owe them anything, saying they must work hard to achieve success.
The minister stated these while delivering the 2016 convocation lecture of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) at the J. F. Ade Ajayi Auditorium on Monday.
The lecture was themed: “Building a successor-generation: Reflections on values and knowledge in nation building.”
Dr Fayemi said he did not just find himself at the top of the ladder of life, but had also paid the necessary price by engaging in odd and menial jobs such as driving public taxis and working as a security guard both in Nigeria and during his postgraduate days in the United Kingdom.
He said: “Quit whining – no one owes you anything. The earlier we realise that no one owes us anything, the better for us and the more prepared we would be to face life’s challenges. Don’t think you are entitled to a job, just because of your parents’ influence or what they have or your good grades. The only guarantee you have in this life is what you do for yourself with the grace God has bestowed on us all.
“You have to be prepared to bend backwards and do what you might consider to be beneath you, because of the bigger picture. As a UNILAG graduate and a postgraduate student at the United Kingdom, I have also driven taxis and worked as a security guard, amongst several other menial jobs I did in the past to survive.”
Fayemi noted that increasing knowledge, discipline, flexibility, passion, courage, among others were keys to differentiating those that are “merely certificated from those that are truly educated UNILAG graduates.”
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