Nigeria: Cleaning Up and Remediation of Oil Spills

1 September 2011
opinion

Almost a month after the official presentation of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report on oil spills in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria especially in Ogoni land, affected communities are still waiting for succor in the area of cleanup and remediation exercise.

Perhaps tired of waiting for the Federal Government to lay out its elaborate plan of how it plans to carry out the exercise, elders from Ogoni land could no longer hold their peace and watch, so they had to come to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to press home their demands before the National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA).

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