There is widespread degradation of the environment of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
such that the United Nations Environment Program described it as an ecological wasteland.
The contamination is due mainly to unregulated oil and gas production activities leading to
oil spills and illegal disposal of contaminated materials, indiscriminate industrial and
domestic discharges into water bodies. This widespread contamination includes naturally
occurring radioactive materials (NORM) and technologically enhanced radioactive materials …