It was reported that a Dutch Appeals Court has ordered Shell Nigeria to pay compensation to Nigerian farmers in the Niger Delta for oil spills. The court also ordered Shell Nigeria’s parent company to install equipment to prevent future damage caused by leaks in the Niger Delta. The court ruled that Shell is responsible for […]
Stephan Ernst, a 47 year old German neo-Nazi was on Thursday, 28 January 2021 sentenced to life in prison at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt for murdering pro-migration politician (Walter Luebcke). The court found Stephen Ernst guilty of shooting dead Walter Luebcke (politician from Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party) on 1 June, 2019. Walter
It was reported that Egypt signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday, 14 January 2021 with Siemens (a German multinational company) for the construction of high-speed train line. The electric rail line project which worth $23 billion would link Egypt’s eastern and northern coasts. It would run from Ain Sokhna on the Red Sea to
Viewers Corner News correspondent in London reported that Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted emergency use approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. This is 23 days after Pfizer published the first data from its final stage clinical trial, stating that the vaccine is 95% effective in preventing the coronavirus. Britain will be
Lawmaker Nadhim Zahawi was on Saturday appointed as vaccines minister by the British government to oversee coronavirus inoculations. Britain is preparing to vaccinate millions of people against the coronavirus immediately the vaccines are approved. It was reported that the United Kingdom medicines regulator is assessing two vaccines to see if they are safe and effective;
Viewers Corner News team believe that Nigeria would get out of recession soon, it is not new and also not the first time recession has hit the country (Nigeria), but then the recent one could be as a result of covid19 restrictions which have affected almost all the countries of the world. Even in the
Viewers Corner News correspondent in Moscow reported that 25 British citizens were recently banned from entering Russia. This is in retaliation to the similar sanctions Britain imposed on Russia. In July 2020, Britain banned 25 Russians and 20 Saudi Arabians from entering the country, which foreign minister Dominic Raab said it is one of the
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor was on loggerhead with German regional leaders as they rejected her proposals for Covid 19 new lockdown restrictions. Our (Viewers Corner News) correspondent in Berlin reported that Angela Merkel wanted to impose tough new measures (reducing school hours and making face masks compulsory for children of all ages), but the
Our (Viewers Corner News) correspondent in Brussels reported that trade talks between Britain and the European Union will resume on Monday in Brussels after the two sides failed to reach negotiations on fair competition rules and fisheries. With seven weeks remaining before the transition period ends and Britain completes her Brexit journey out of European
It was reported that the United States have formally exited from the Paris Agreement (global climate pact) to fight climate change, thereby fulfilling President Trump’s promise to withdraw the country from global climate pact. Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said that the United States withdrawal would
