#MaritimeAffairs: Nigeria's oil spillage - Part I

 By Kofi Sarpong
It's estimated that since oil production begun in Nigeria, about 546 million gallons of oil have been spilled in Nigeria's Niger Delta. The most controversial spillage comes from oil pipelines. Over the past two decades, at least a dozen pipeline disaster has killed thousands in Nigeria.

Niger Delta oil spillage

 One of the nation's worst disaster happened on 18th October, 1998 when a pipeline owned by Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation exploded in Jesse, Nigeria. The fire was put out on October 23, 1998 by an American firefighting company and a total of 1,082 people lost their lives.

In the next write up, it would be told whether it's due to greed or negligence.