Oil Pollution in the Niger Delta: The Responsibility of the Nigerian State and Oil Companies

Oil pollution has become a major environmental problem since commercial exploration of oil exploration in Niger Delta in the 1950s, oil pollution will continue as long as oil extraction continues. Since the 1950s, due to the increase in crude oil demand and the presence of a large amount of oil reserves, Niger Delta experienced a so-called oil pollution environmental disaster, which has had a major impact on the environment and indigenous people dependent on it. Make a living in the area.

The oil boom in Nigeria is driven by the oil mined from the Niger Delta. The wealth of Niger Delta is largely responsible for maintaining the Nigerian Commonwealth (UNDP, 2006: 62). Despite the economic growth of Nigeria, the delta of Nigeria is left behind in the development of the country of Nigeria. Higgins essentially wrote that there is a large gap between the wealth produced by the Federation of Nigeria and the multinational oil company extracting oil from that area and the region's human development (Higgins 2009: 3). The region's human development index is 0.564, slightly higher than the Nigerian human development index 0.448 but the region is much lower than the region or country where natural gas or oil reserves are similar (UNDP, 2006 Year). 15) It is noteworthy that the number of the poor in local governments without petroleum facilities seems to be less than the number of people with oil facilities (UNDP, 2006: 15).

Almost no day has passed, and international and local news agencies have not reported an increasing number of rebel forces in Nigerian oil-rich Niger Delta armed militia. There are two objectionable facts in the Nigerian Delta of Nigeria. First, it is a strategically important region for domestic and foreign economies. Secondly, this is a huge and anxious field of contradiction. This is an environment of enormous wealth and non-human poverty (Inokoba and Imbua; 2008: 643). The plight of the area is that its wealth and wealth are the root cause of poverty, corruption, and curse of oil officials. Although the bearing community facts have now made a valuable contribution to the lives of the Nigerian countries, Nigerian facts have now become some of the most serious environmental damages among the poorest people in Africa It is that. unitedIjawstates.com). Most Niger delta communities are taking the opposite approach. 1. The oil well in March 2001