Sixty-three years after the Oil Pipelines Act came into force, the country has continued to charge a meagre N50 for licences to operate pipeline networks worth $4.6 million.

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has described Shell Petroleum Development Company’s (SPDC) claim of deploying aerial cameras to track oil spills as a plot to distract Nigerians from their demand on the firm to fix its pipelines as a measure to check....