UK ordered to pay $570 million for colonial-era killings

The shooting of 21 Nigerian coal miners during a 1949 protest constituted an extrajudicial violation of the right to life, a judge in the African state has ruled

A Nigerian court has ordered Britain to pay £420 million ($570 million) in compensation to the families of coal miners killed by colonial authorities in the West African country more than seven decades ago.

British colonial police shot dead 21 Nigerian coal miners during...