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Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, February 24, 2006

SHELL ORDERED TO PAY IN NIGERIA A Nigerian court has ordered Shell Petroleum to pay 1.5 billion dollars to local communities in the Niger Delta region as compensation for years of environmental pollution. Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos. The court judgement is another setback for the oil giant, Shell, which early this week, shut down half of its operations in Nigeria following attacks on its facilities and the kidnapping of nine of its foreign employees. Payment of compensation for environmental damage is one of the demands of the local militants holding the oil workers. Nigeria's National Asse…