The Federal Government is on the verge of implementing recommendations by a special team, which it set up last year to review the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report on Oil Pollution in Ogoniland, THISDAY investigations have revealed.
The team headed by the Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, had been mandated to undertake a holistic review of the report, which indicted Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) and Nigerian government for contributing to decades of pollution in Ogoniland and make recommendations to the federal government on immediate and long-term remedial actions.