The largest oil operator in Nigeria, Royal Dutch Shell, began evacuating all staff dependants from the Niger Delta on Thursday after militants planted a car bomb in a residential compound ...

According to Shell, since 2011, about 90% of oil spills from SPDC-operated facilities in the Niger Delta have been caused by sabotage and theft.

CIVICUS speaks with Matthew Renshaw, a partner at a UK law firm that represents Nigerian communities taking legal action against Shell over environmental damage caused by its operations in the Niger ...

Civil society groups yesterday, protested at the Head Office of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Lagos, demanding a cleanup of the Niger Delta region amid the company’s plan to exit ...

Activists say Shell has a history of poor divestment in the region. They point to a wellhead blowout in the Santa Barbara River, which flows through the Niger Delta, in 2021. The wellhead wasn’t ...

Shell's $2.4 billion sale of its onshore business to a group of local companies was confirmed last week by Nigeria’s special advisor to the president on energy, Olu Verheijen.

Civil Society Organisations (CSO) in the Niger Delta region have called on Shell Nigeria to properly clean, pay up and restore what they have destroyed in the region, stating that Shell legacy is ...

Oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell is set to make a payout of $84 million (N15,493,809,854.06) to residents of the Bodo community in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria following two oil spills.

A Dutch appeal court has decided that supermajor Shell is responsible for environmental damage caused by oil leaks in the Niger Delta and must pay compensation to affected Nigerian farmers. The ...