Taming Nigeria’s oil spillages and gas flaring scourge [opinion]

By Jerome-Mario Utomi

THE recent news report that the Okordia-Rumekpe 14-inch crude truck line operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, discharged some 213 barrels of crude oil into Ikarama community in Bayelsa, has again brought to our consciousness that though Nigeria prides itself as the giant of Africa and the most populous Black nation in the world, yet, it is still riddled with Third World challenges.

Essentially, while clarifying that an estimated 1.34 hectares of land was polluted by the leakage which followed a rupture on the pipeline, SPDC, among other…