Between 1976 and 1991, more than two million barrels of oil polluted Ogoniland in 2,976 separate oil spills as Nigeria became one of the world’s largest oil producers. In 2020 and 2021 ...

In this grab taken from video, oil from a spill pollutes the Okuku river, in Ogoniland, Nigeria, June 16, 2023. An oil spill at a Shell facility in Nigeria has contaminated farmland and a river.

Nuhu Ribadu, national security adviser (NSA), says oil production will soon resume in Ogoniland after over 30 years.

“The fact that this spill that happened a week ago is yet to be stopped sends a very strong point to why the government should focus on cleaning up Ogoniland and not seek to open new oil well ...

“The UNEP’s 2011 Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland offered a blueprint ... The meeting was attended by representatives of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, Rivers ...

The court action was initiated by the Ogale and Bille communities who have a combined population of around 50,000 people in the area of Ogoniland. They say the oil spills caused by oil ...

The Nigerian government has announced plans to restart oil production in Ogoniland after a 30-year hiatus. The National ...

SaharaReporters learnt that the oil spill was reported on Monday evening and blamed on suspected equipment failure from the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria. A crude oil spill ...

When SPDC finally pulled out of Ogoniland in 1993—at the height of ... arable lands and fresh water from approximately 3,000 oil spill incidents between 1976 and 1991. The outcome of what ...

The discovery of crude oil in 1958 in Ogoniland, comprising six kingdoms of Babbe, Eleme, Gokana, Ken-Khana, Nyo-Khana and Tai, now compacted into four local government areas of Eleme, Gokana and ...

Recommended Videos Now a potential restart of oil production Ogoniland region in southern ... West African nation’s Delta region where oil spills have fouled rivers and farms and exacerbated ...

The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency ... by Shell that crosses through communities in the Eleme area of Ogoniland, a region where the London-based energy giant has faced ...