The federal government has unveiled COP 27 National logo which will distinctively project the country at the climate change treaty while representing Nigeria’s alignment with the ideals and objectives of the 27th global event.

Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi while addressing newsmen in Abuja said Nigeria will key into Africa’s agenda items for support partnerships that will assist the country achieve it’s emission reduction target.

The logo according to the minister will distinctively project Nigeria and it’s national interest at the COP while also aligning with west Africa’s thematic issues including doubling adaptation finance by 2025 and closing the climate financing gap.

The government had In response to the outcome of COP 26 which held in Glasgow Scotland, developed it’s energy transition plan, launched emission trading scheme and adopted a national climate change act which gives legal backing to the 2060 net zero ambition.

The hosting of COP 27 in the city of Sharm El-Sheik this year marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations framework convention on climate change.

Though Nigeria and iAfrica contribute only about 3% of green house gas emissions, the continent remains the worst hit by climate change due to limited adaptative capacity to cope with the Impact evident in extreme weather events such as increased temperature levels, irregular rainfall pattern, flooding, drought and desertification.

Recent revelations and discoveries have confirmed long time suspicions that Nigeria’s crude oil was being stolen.

Experts conclude that the stealing amounts to huge revenue loss for the country and wealth for the thieves.

In this report, AIT’s Nwese Igonor, takes a look at ways a few persons have been syphoning and diverting the country’s crude oil.

The Forcados oil terminal, located 65 kilometers away from western Niger Delta, has the capacity to store 5.25 million barrels of crude oil per day for export.
It is a Joint Venture between the NNPC and two multi-national oil companies, Shell and Agip.

It is the second largest pipeline network in the Niger Delta after the bonny oil pipeline system.
Some International oil companies and Nigerian independent companies operating in the western Niger Delta pump oil to the Forcados Oil Terminal for exports.

Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, TSSNL, a surveillance company operated by ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, and other security operatives unearthed the huge illegal pipeline connected to the 48-inch Trans Forcados Export Trunk line.

The illegal pipeline is connected to the trunk line through an abandoned pipeline in Forcados Terminal in Ogulagha and linked to a location in the high sea where they load crude oil into vessels and sell across the shores of Nigeria.

Investigations show that it was easy for Illegal connections to occur in abandoned pipelines that have not been decommissioned and there are well above hundred of such pipelines across the oil region that can easily be compromised.

After trudging through the swamp all the way to where the crude is loaded and shipped overseas, it was obvious that oil theft is not an easy thing to be done as it requires expertise, huge resources and a whole lot more for a smooth and successful operation.

Therefore, checkmating the illegal trade must be done with sincerity of purpose and huge resources.