Gas flaring: Nigeria suffers N200 billion loss annually – Senate
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday pushed harder to end “gas flaring” in the country after a bill for an Act seeking to prohibit the activity scaled second reading.
In his lead debate, Bassey said the bill had become important with Nigeria losing over N217 billion annually as a result of gas flaring. “This is something the oil companies are not willing to stop. We should stop gas flaring and I think we should have a date when gas flaring will stop”, she said.
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