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Pfizer, Nigeria Sign $75 Mln Settlement in Drug Suit: Official

The sign on the side of the Pfizer building at the Pfizer world headquarters in New York. US drugmaker Pfizer and Nigeria's northern Kano State Thursday signed a 75 million dollar final out-of-court settlement over the 1996 drug trials that led to the deaths of 11 children, a joint statement said. (AFP)

ABUJA, Nigeria - US drugmaker Pfizer reached a 75-million-dollar (53-million-euro) final settlement with a Nigerian state Thursday over 1996 drug trials that led to the deaths of 11 children, a joint statement said.

"We are pleased to announce that we have reached a final agreement to settle the Trovan litigation between Pfizer and Kano State government," the statement by the two parties said.

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Niger Delta Standoff

Behind fighter-planes and gunboats, Nigerian forces launched a full-scale offensive in the Niger Delta on May 13, displacing 30,000 people and sparking a humanitarian crisis. Thousands of civilians fleeing destroyed villages are now trapped between armed resistance groups and the Nigerian military. These civilians are hiding in the bush without food, water, or medical supplies, let alone Internet access to alert the world of their plight, as Iranians are doing via Twitter.

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Nigerian Militants Say Chevron Facility Destroyed

File photo shows fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) as they prepare for an operation in the Niger Delta. The militants have said they have destroyed a Chevron oil pipeline junction in the latest attack on Nigeria's key money earner since the government offered an amnesty. (AFP)

LAGOS - Nigerian militants said Monday they destroyed a Chevron oil pipeline junction in the latest attack on Nigeria's key money earner since the government offered an amnesty.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it attacked the Okan manifold late Sunday.

According to the rebels, the manifold controls about 80 percent of the crude that Chevron Nigeria Limited sends to its BOP Crude Loading Platform.

A Chevron spokesman said an investigation had started and no comment would be made.

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Nigerian Rebels Threaten FIFA Junior World Cup, Continue Attacks on Chevron Facilities

A Chevron oil pipeline in the water near the Gbaramatu community in Warri-South, Niger Delta. Armed militants in Nigeria's Niger Delta have claimed more attacks against facilities run by US oil giant Chevron and warned FIFA against letting the country host the under-17 World Cup tournament. (AFP/File/Pius Otomi Ekpei)

LAGOS - Rebels in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta on Monday claimed more attacks against facilities run by US oil giant Chevron and warned FIFA against letting Nigeria host the under-17 World Cup tournament.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) also threatened to extend its operations to other states in the oil-rich region.

The MEND statement said they had started a massive fire that destroyed the Abiteye flow station and blew up two other Chevron facilities there early Monday.

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Now at Last It's Time for Shell to Atone for My Father's Death

This week, a US court will hear a case that I and nine other plaintiffs filed against Royal Dutch Shell for its part in human rights violations committed against some Ogoni families and individuals in Nigeria in 1995. For some, the case is already being cast as a bookmark in the struggle for corporate accountability, but to me and the other nine plaintiffs it is all that and more.

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Nigeria Violence and Oil

WASHINGTON - May 22 - Limited human-rights and press reports indicate a substantial escalation of violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria. Amnesty International reports: "Hundreds of people are feared dead. ... Thousands have fled their communities and are unable to return to their homes."



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Pfizer to Pay £50m After Deaths of Nigerian Children in Drug Trial Experiment

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's New York headquarters. Pfizer has agreed to pay 75 million dollars compensation over a 1996 drug trial that caused the death of 11 children in northern Nigeria. (AFP/File/Henny Ray Abrams)

A divorce case was all that passed for excitement at Richard P Altschuler's "kinda small" lawyer's office in West Haven, Connecticut, when the phone rang nine years ago. On the other end of the line, a world away in the heat of Nigeria, was Etigwe Uwo, a young lawyer with "an incredible story about Pfizer". The Lagos attorney was going to take on the largest pharmaceutical company in the world in an unprecedented class action pitting African parents against an American corporate giant. And he needed help.

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Nigerians Get Their Day in Court On Human Rights Claims Against Oil Companies

If IkpoBari Senewo had not been conducting an exam for his secondary school students in the Niger Delta village of Bane one afternoon in May of 1994, he believes he would have been killed. As it was, members of the Nigerian military who came to Senewo's house that day found only his father at home, so they flogged the elderly man with a section of high-tension cable and then burned the house down.

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