{"id":190702,"date":"2025-02-06T14:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-trial-of-shell-nigerian-oil-pollution-claims-to-begin-at-the-high-court-on-13-february\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:31:05","slug":"nigeria-trial-of-shell-nigerian-oil-pollution-claims-to-begin-at-the-high-court-on-13-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-trial-of-shell-nigerian-oil-pollution-claims-to-begin-at-the-high-court-on-13-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Trial of Shell Nigerian Oil Pollution Claims to Begin at the High Court on 13 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Oil giant Shell will stand trial\u00a0 at the High Court in London \u00a0 from 10.30am Thursday 13 February to Friday 7 March 2025 \u00a0over claims it is responsible for oil pollution which has devastated two Nigerian communities and breached their right to clean and healthy environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"74\">The trial is a key moment in the legal claim by the Ogale and Bille communities in the Niger Delta (combined population of 80,000), who have been fighting UK-based Shell plc and its Nigerian subsidiary SPDC for a clean-up&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502060387.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>Oil giant Shell will stand trial\u00a0 at the High Court in London \u00a0 from 10.30am Thursday 13 February to Friday 7 March 2025 \u00a0over claims it is responsible for oil pollution which has devastated two Nigerian communities and breached their right to clean and healthy environment. The trial is a key moment in the legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8117,6185,5742,6184,257,4687,393,482,4221,10362,21743,254,6564],"class_list":["post-190702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-court","tag-february","tag-high","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-oil","tag-pollution","tag-shell","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190702","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=190702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}