Rivers youths discover illegal oil tapping point
Youths of Nonwa, Uedume community in Tai council of Rivers State have discovered a crude oil tapping point on the Trans Niger Delta Pipeline operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited. Confirming the discovery, the Executive Director, Youth and Environmental Advocacy Centre, Fyneface Dumnamene, said the tap was discovered by youths working as pipeline surveillance contractors. Speaking at the site during an observation tour of the discovery site along with other stakeholders, Dumnamene revealed that the tap point is capable of loading two tankers of 33,000 liters. “Sometime last week I was invited as an environmentalist to