Abundant natural resources should have been a source of prosperity and development; rather, the host communities have suffered from pollution which is an indictment on oil-producing firms and the Ministry of Environment. The House of Representatives Joint Committees have disclosed that the oil-producing communities in Nigeria have experienced environmental degradation and socio-economic marginalisation following decades of oil exploration and exploitation. The Joint Committees comprising Environment, Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Petroleum Resources (Downstream), and Climate Change further...











