Social and Economic Rights Action Center (SERAC) and Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) / Nigeria Country/Territory Nigeria Date Oct 27, 2001 Source UNEP, InforMEA Abstract The communication alleged that the military government of Nigeria had been directly involved in oil production through the State oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), the majority shareholder in a consortium with Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC), and that those operations had caused environmental degradation and health problems resulting from the contamination of the environment among the Ogoni People Full text achpr30_155_96_eng.pdf achpr30_155_96_eng.pdf Website www.achpr.org