SHELL DENIES ABUSES IN NIGERIA

ANGLO-Dutch oil group Shell has denied all charges of human rights violations in Nigeria’s oil rich Niger-Delta region at a human rights panel hearing. Replying to allegations of human rights abuse and environmental degradation of the southern oil communities, the company said the allegation of environmental devastation seems to be exaggerated to attract attention to other issues in the Ogoni struggle and in the Niger-Delta.” Minority rights campaigners in Nigeria last week accused Shell of years of systematic human rights abuses. – AFP