Nigeria: Community Concerns in Ongoing Ogoni Oil Clean-Up

[Premium Times] For over 60 years, the Nigerian Government exploited oil and gas resources in the Niger Delta region. During this period, extensive pollution of the air, water, sediment and soil in local communities in the region exposed humans and other life forms to severe health risks. At some point in the early 1990s, the Ogoni communities and civil society organizations agitated for the Government to clean up environmental degradation in the area. As a response, the Nigerian Government commissioned the United Nations