Policy Brief: Preventing The Environmental And Health Impacts Of Artisanal Oil Refining On Women In Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region
The discovery of oil in commercial quantity in Oloibiri, Nigeria in 1956 by Shell Darcy, seemed to be the beginning of rapid economic development of Nigeria. There were high hopes about the magical transformation that oil would bring to Nigeria and Nigerians. With these high hopes, many failed to foresee the potential negative consequences of oil. Eyes were blinded to
