Activists in Nigeria have said they will maintain pressure on Royal Dutch Shell over alleged human rights abuses - despite a $15.5m payout by the firm to the families of protesters executed in the oil-rich Niger Delta during the 1990s.

Their promise came after the energy giant agreed to settle out of court a lawsuit accusing the firm of complicity in the executions of nine human rights activists in Nigeria’s Ogoniland region. (In the picture: Royal Dutch Shell oil facility in Nigeria, Shell was accused of colluding with Nigeria’s government to silence rights activists)

Veronica Kobani, whose husband was killed in the unrest between protesters and the then military government, said: “We are still aggrieved with Shell. Paying compensation for the blood of these innocent people will not bring Shell back again to any part of Ogoniland for oil exploitation.”