A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27 million to each family of 21 coal miners killed in 1949.

The colonial police, made up of Nigerians and Europeans, shot dead workers striking for better conditions.

An Enugu state high court has ordered the United Kingdom to pay £20 million each to the families of 21 coal miners killed by ...

The Enugu state high court has ordered the British government to pay the sum of £20 million each to the families of the 21 ...

Justice Anthony Onovo of the Enugu State High Court on Thursday ordered the British Government to pay £20 million each to the ...

The massacre reportedly took place at the Iva Valley Coal Mine in Enugu on Nov. 18, 1949, which was the administrative ...

Seventy-six years after the killing of 21 coal miners in Enugu during the colonial era, a Nigerian court has ordered the United Kingdom to pay £420 million in compensation, marking one of the most ...

The massacre occurred on November 18, 1949, at the Iva Valley Coal Mine in Enugu, then the administrative capital of the Eastern Region of British-administered Nigeria. The miners were protesting poor ...

LONDON (AP) — The British government said Monday that it will hold a public inquiry into the “Battle of Orgreave,” a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners that became a ...

Enugu court orders British Government to compensate families, apologise publicly for colonial era killing of 21 coal miners.

The Enugu High Court has ordered the British government to pay £420 million to the families of 21 coal miners killed during the 1949 Iva Valley Massacre. The ruling was delivered by Justice Anthony ...