100 killed in fire at illegal crude oil refinery in Nigeria
Soldiers at a destroyed illegal oil refinery in the Niger Delta in 2017. A fire on April 22, 2022 killed more than 100 people at an illegal crude oil refinery in Abaezi forest in Nigeria’s south east Imo State.
Before the fire, the federal government on March 23, 2022 vowed to stop the economic devastation caused by the activities of illegal refiners, pipeline vandalism and crude oil theft.
