{"id":84634,"date":"2026-02-08T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84634"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:22:22","slug":"nigerian-court-orders-uk-to-pay-420m-reparations-for-colonial-era-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/08\/nigerian-court-orders-uk-to-pay-420m-reparations-for-colonial-era-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian court orders UK to pay \u00a3420m reparations for \u2018colonial-era\u2019 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1VThGq.img?w=534&amp;h=357&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Welcome to Enugu: Roadside Sign in Nigeria, Africa\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Nigerian court has reportedly ordered the UK to pay \u00a3420 million to the families of 21 coal miners killed by colonial security forces on November 18, 1949. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/nigerian-court-orders-uk-to-pay-420m-reparations-for-colonial-era-deaths\/ar-AA1VT17f?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69884ae4872d401da5dbd6ced8ad2eb4&amp;ei=44\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A Nigerian court has reportedly ordered the UK to pay \u00a3420 million to the families of 21 coal miners killed by colonial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Nigeria-map-border-countries.gif","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84635,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84634\/revisions\/84635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}