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Article

19 Aug 2011

Author:
Hamisu Muhammad, Daily Trust [Nigeria]

Nigeria: Oil Companies Meet On Ogoni Spills Report

Top oil operators in the country met...in Abuja over the oil spill report submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan...by the United Nations Environmental Programme...on Ogoni, a community in Rivers State. The meeting which held at the headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporations...brought together top companies in the industry such as Shell, Total, Chevron and Agip [part of Eni]...[T]he Group Managing Director of NNPC, Engineer Austen Oniwon said the cleaning up of Ogoni land is a collective responsibility, adding that NNPC and its Joint Venture partners will work together to recover Ogoni land and give life back to the community...The Group General Manager, NNPC Group Public Affairs, Dr. Levi Ajuonuma said...that a committee will be set up to study and evaluate the report and come up with desirable action plan that would bring back the glory of Ogoni land.