British government is ordered to pay £420million to the families of the 21 coal miners who were shot dead in Nigeria in 1949 during colonial rule

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay £420 million to the families of 21 miners who were shot dead by the colonial authorities nearly 80 years ago.


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