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The DPR’s declaration of the COVID-19 Pandemic as a Force Majeure event- Issues Arising by Racheal Obong

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic (“the Pandemic”) continues to negatively impact practically every sector in Nigeria and the oil and gas sector has not been spared. In a bid to respond to and address the challenges occasioned by the pandemic, the nation’s foremost oil and gas regulator, the Department of Petroleum Resource (the “DPR”), recently issued

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Nigerians, Other West Africans Sold in Libyan “Slave Markets”

  The United Nations migration agency has reported that migrants from West Africa are being bought and sold openly in modern-day slave markets in Libya.Trafficked people passing through Libya have previously reported violence, extortion and slave labor. But the new testimony from the International Organization for Migration suggests that the trade in human beings has

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Illegal Immigrants Kicked Out of European Union Countries

Not less than 250 Nigerians have been deported from different European countries since January 2017 including the 50 that were repatriated last Thursday from eight countries for immigration-related offenses. The Foreign Affairs Minister, Onyeama, disclosed that the issue of migration had become a priority for most EU countries. He said it was pertinent to engage

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Lagos State Defies Court Order Demolish Lekki Waterfront Community

As early as 5.30 am, Sunday, April 9, armed officials of the Lagos State Task Force stormed Otodogbame, a waterfront community in the Lekki area demolishing structures and shanties.The latest demolition came barely three weeks after a wave of demolition, despite a subsisting court order, rendered an estimated 5,000 people homeless. Although the demolition was

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