Nigeria: Shell recruits 4,000 to protect oil pipelines

Nigeria’s subsidiary of oil major Shell has recruit 4,000 people to help protect its network of oil pipelines in the country’s oil producing Niger Delta region, company officials said.

The manager of pipeline operations in the Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC), Mr. Godwin Idoko, said the people would provide intelligence reports to the company, which will then forward such to security agencies to prevent the incessant vandalisation of the firm’s pipelines.

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