SOMALI WORLD CUP REFEREE DENIED ENTRY TO UNITED STATES. (PHOTO).

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 Somali World Cup Referee Denied Entry to United States Award-winning Somali referee, Omar Artan, has been denied entry into the United States despite holding a valid visa, according to a senior official in Somalia’s sports ministry. Artan, who is set to become the first Somali referee to officiate at the FIFA World Cup finals, was stopped at Miami International Airport and subsequently returned to Istanbul, where he had been residing. The reason for the denial was not immediately disclosed. However, Somalia is among the countries affected by a travel ban introduced by the administration of Donald Trump. Reacting to the development, Ciise Aden Abshir, a senior adviser to Somalia’s Ministry of Youth and Sports and a former national team captain, described Artan as one of Africa’s most respected referees. “Omar Artan is among Africa’s most respected referees and deserves the support of the entire football community,” Abshir told AFP on Monday. He added that preventing the referee fro...

SHELL PLANS TO PAY $51MILLION TO NIGERIANS AS COMPENSATION?

               According to sources,Royal Dutch Shell is ready to pay up to 30 million pounds {$51 million} in compensation for two oil spills in Nigeria in 2008 after a London court rejected claim.Around 15,000 residents of the Bodo community in the Niger Delta represented by a law firm Leigh Day,appeared in 2011 to a London court for more than 300 million pounds in compensation.Claimants say that the two spills resulted  in the leakage of 500,000 barrels of oil but Shell estimated the volume at aound 4,000 barrels.The lawyer representing the claimants rejected the sum of 30 million pounds in September 2013,and June 20 2014.The London High court on friday June 20 2014,rejected the claimant's attempts to expand the scope of the compensation,ruling that the pipeline operator could not be held responsible for damage caused by oil theft.A trial is planned to start in May 2015 in Nigeria,but shell urged the claimants to reach a settlement before hand.

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