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Nigeria
Abuja names bigshot oil arbitrator to fight Shell over oil spill


French-Iranian arbitration specialist Yas Banifatemi.
French-Iranian arbitration specialist Yas Banifatemi. © Shearman & Sterling/Handout/EPA/MaxPPP

Oil dispute expert Yas Banifatemi has been picked as the second member of the ICSID tribunal that will hear Nigeria's dispute with Shell over an oil spill in 1970.

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