Court adjourns till July 2 for $69m suit filed by FG against Chevron, Total

A Federal High Court Lagos, Tuesday, further adjourned until July 2, a 69 million dollars suit filed by the Federal Government against Chevron Petroleum Nigeria Ltd, seeking to recover oil revenue.

The FG filed the suit against Chevron Nigeria Ltd, and Chevron Petroleum Nigeria Ltd, as first and second defendants, respectively.

The case, which was adjourned for a report of proceedings at the Court of Appeal, was on Tuesday, further adjourned until July 2, as the court did not sit. The case will, therefore, be further mentioned on July 2, for a report of proceedings at the Court of Appeal.

This suit is one among other suits instituted by the government seeking to recover almost 12 billion dollars in missing crude oil revenue from some international oil companies.
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The suit was filed by the government, through its Counsel, Professor Fabian Ajogwu (SAN) in 2016, against some international oil companies to recover lost revenues arising from undeclared and under-declared crude oil shipments from Nigeria to different parts of the world.

The court also adjourned a similar suit against Total E&P Nigeria Plc, to July 2, for report of proceedings at the appellate court.

The Federal Government had sued Total E&P, alleging that the oil company under-declared the volume of crude oil it shipped out of the country between January 2011 and December 2014.

It accused the oil company of short-changing it to the tune of 245 million dollars, by allegedly shipping several barrels of crude oil out of Nigeria, without making due remittance to the government.