{"id":57377,"date":"2017-01-27T07:56:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T06:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=57377"},"modified":"2017-01-27T08:02:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T07:02:24","slug":"bayelsa-sues-agip-oil-claims-n1-6tr-damage-over-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/bayelsa-sues-agip-oil-claims-n1-6tr-damage-over-oil-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa drags Agip Oil to court, claims N1.6tr damage over oil spill"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bayelsa State government has dragged Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) Limited to a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt over an oil spillage from the company\u2019s SBM Sirius, (offshore Brass) in Brass local government area of the state.<\/p>\n
The government in an originating summons, filed by the Bayelsa State Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Kemeasuode Wodu, and obtained by journalists on Friday in Yenagoa, demanded N1.6 trillion compensation for general and exemplary damages from the spill which occurred on November 27, 2013.<\/p>\n
The originating summons, which is pursuant to Order 3 Rule 9 of the court, said the spill contravened the provisions of Regulation 13 of the Petroleum Regulation made pursuant to the Pursuant Act Cap P10 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria.<\/p>\n