Bodo River News Today

A 16,000-LITRE oil spill by Shell last summer in Nigeria allegedly polluted drinking water, contaminated farmland and killed hundreds of birds,…

In the early hours of August 23, 2022, in the Bodo community in Gokana Local government area of Rivers State, Livinus Zabbey, a farmer whose livelihoods include raising chickens and cultivating pears, wakes up to find crude oil all over his compound. He was shocked and could only think of the impact of such an incident on his family should there be a fire. According to him,  his family was moved out of his compound to his eldest sister's house in the same community that had not been affect...