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The Niger Delta region has continued to suffer environmental challenges as a result of oil production in communities across the region.<\/p>\n
The oil exploration in the region has become a setback as the natural resource, which was supposed to serve as a blessing, has become a challenge following incessant oil spills and environmental degradation which have resulted in the loss of nutrients in farm lands, displacements, poor crop yields and other environmental disasters.<\/p>\n
Also, many communities have lost…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Niger Delta region has continued to suffer environmental challenges as a result of oil production in communities across the region. The oil exploration in the region has become a setback as the natural resource, which was supposed to serve as a blessing, has become a challenge following incessant oil spills and environmental degradation which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[8638,258,256,24217,2337,7929,7424,257,404,4687,393,4221,6324,254],"class_list":["post-183244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-adopt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cleaner","tag-crude","tag-delta","tag-energy","tag-news","tag-niger","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-oil","tag-region","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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