A United Nations reports says that there have been a total of 6,817 oil spills between 1976 and 2001, which accounts for a loss of 3 million barrels of oil, of which more than 70% was not recovered.
Dateline Abuja on this edition looks at what is being done to address the rising cases of oil spill in Nigeria's Niger-Delta region.
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