London Court Orders Shell to Pay U.S.$410 Million Over Bodo Community Spills

In what appears to be the first case of its kind, a British High Court in London has ordered the oil major, Royal Dutch Shell, to pay compensation of potentially more than £250m ($410m), about N61.5billion, after the Anglo-Dutch oil group admitted liability for two spills in Nigeria following a class-action lawsuit brought up in England by the Bodo Community in the Niger Delta.