Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell has offered to pay up to $51 million in compensation for two oil spills in Nigeria in 2008 after a London court rejected a larger claim.
Around 11,000 residents of the Bodo community in the Niger Delta represented by law firm Leigh Day appealed in 2011 to a London court
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