Nigeria's state oil company and partners spent $360 million on Delta cleanup: NNPC

YENAGOA, Nigeria - Nigeria’s state oil company and its joint venture partners have spent $360 million on cleaning up the Niger Delta oil heartland in the past two years, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation said on Monday, but locals said little work had been done.

Nigeria is Africa’s biggest crude oil exporter. Oil sales account for around 90% of its foreign currency earnings but oil spills in the southern Niger Delta region have caused pollution and angered locals. A 2011 United Nations report warned of catastrophic pollution in soil and water in Ogoniland. It said Shell and Nigeria’s government needed to address the problems.Shell paid a settlement of 55 million pounds to villagers and since then has said it has taken steps to improve the situation in the area, including training youths to start up businesses and funding community patrols to reduce pollution by vandals stealing oil.

Morris Alagoa, of the Environmental Rights Action campaign group, said he had seen little activity since the operation began.But a photograph seen by Reuters taken in the last few weeks in Bodo, which sits in Ogoniland, showed men wearing overalls and hard hats beside boats, suggesting some activity.

I'm impressed by the efforts.

Until the next toxic dump

Wow we could help WHO to help Africa already with that money.

The Nigerian Government is grateful for the charity... their money goes elsewhere?

Embezzled they mean

They're lying

What ever company polluted needs to pay to un pollute it plain and simple

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