{"id":176142,"date":"2024-07-08T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-amnesty-international-questions-nigerias-choice-of-shell-evaluators\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:38:08","slug":"nigeria-amnesty-international-questions-nigerias-choice-of-shell-evaluators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-amnesty-international-questions-nigerias-choice-of-shell-evaluators\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Amnesty International Questions Nigeria&#8217;s Choice of Shell Evaluators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Abuja, Nigeria \u2014 Human rights group Amnesty International raised concerns Friday about the Nigerian government&#8217;s hiring of two firms with past dealings with Shell to assess the proposed $2.4 billion sale of the company&#8217;s onshore assets in the Niger Delta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Amnesty said the choice cast doubt on the independence and transparency of the process and called again for accountability in the proposed sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Amnesty described the hiring of the Boston Consulting Group, or BCG, and S&amp;P Global by the Nigerian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407080066.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja, Nigeria \u2014 Human rights group Amnesty International raised concerns Friday about the Nigerian government&#8217;s hiring of two firms with past dealings with Shell to assess the proposed $2.4 billion sale of the company&#8217;s onshore assets in the Niger Delta. Amnesty said the choice cast doubt on the independence and transparency of the process and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00231435:453515823139fe78dd871ebd0f3d4ff2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,3023,9650,48981,4337,257,4687,393,5761,5152,21743,254],"class_list":["post-176142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amnesty","tag-choice","tag-evaluators","tag-international","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-questions","tag-shell","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00231435:453515823139fe78dd871ebd0f3d4ff2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}