OIL PRODUCTION TO RESUME IN OGONILAND AS COMMUNITY SEALS DEAL WITH NEW FIRM

There are indications that oil production will soon resume in Ogoniland as the people have endorsed an indigenous firm, Belemaoil to replace Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC). SPDC had packed out of the area at the peak of the crisis between the firm and the Ogoni people in 1993.

 

Since then, the people had insisted that they would not allow Shell to return to the area because of the loss of more than 13 of their prominent sons, including renowned environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, in the crisis.

 

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