MOREHOUSE DEFENDS STUDENTS, FACULTY WHO TURNED THEIR BACKS DURING BIDEN SPEECH:'WE ARE PROUD'. (PHOTO).

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 Morehouse defends students, faculty who turned their backs during Biden speech: ‘We are proud’ Morehouse College is praising its students and faculty after at least seven graduates and one faculty member sat with their backs turned to President Biden as he delivered his commencement address at the Atlanta school earlier Sunday. Morehouse said "peaceful assembly is core" to the school’s "social justice tradition," and its administration "fully supports and defends the right to peacefully protest and the expression of one’s views openly."  Given its most famous alumni, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Morehouse said it was "fitting that a moment of organized, peaceful, activism would occur on our campus while the world is watching to continue a critical conversation."  "We are proud of the resilient class of 2024’s unity in silent protest, showing their intentionality in strategy, communication, and coordination as a 412-person unit," Morehou

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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