Four airports in Nigeria have been mapped out for the deployment of oil spill response units, the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency has said.
Director-General, NOSDRA, Musa Idris, told journalists in Abuja that the four airports include those in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna and Calabar.
Idris, who disclosed this while briefing the press on the fire incident that recently gutted the OVH Tank Farm in Lagos, said the Minister of State for Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, had approached the aviation ministry on the need to have the oil spill response facilities at airports. Read more