World News: Nigeria’s president says Aiteo oil spill will be ‘speedily addressed’ – Gulf Digital News

World News: Nigeria’s president says Aiteo oil spill will be ‘speedily addressed’ – Gulf Digital News

An oil spill in Nigeria's Delta region that has been spewing for more than two weeks will be "speedily addressed," President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement on Wednesday.

Nigerian oil firm Aiteo Eastern E&P reported the spill on Nov. 5 in the Nembe area of Bayelsa state in Nigeria's Delta, one of the most polluted places on earth after decades of spills that have hurt farming and fishing.

Videos shared with Reuters last week showed oil gushing from the wellhead. On Wednesday, locals said the spill continued.
Buhari's minister of state for petroleum, Timipre Sylva, led a high-level delegation that visited the site on Wednesday.