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Nigeria: 77% of Oil Spills Occurred in Three States
‍[Premium Times] About 43,000 barrels of oil were lost in 881 cases of oil spillage in Nigeria from 2019 to May 1 this year, data from NOSDRA shows.
Between January 2019 and April 2021, 12 states in Nigeria recorded 881 cases of oil spillage, according to data obtained from NOSDRA, a government-run satellite tracker.
About 77 per cent of the spills occurred in only three oil-producing states: Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers. The three are among Nigeria's highest oil producers for that period. However, Nigeria's second-highest oi
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