{"id":5232,"date":"2022-04-26T01:45:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T01:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2022-04-26T01:45:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T01:45:41","slug":"explosion-at-nigerian-illegal-oil-refinery-kills-more-than-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2022\/04\/26\/explosion-at-nigerian-illegal-oil-refinery-kills-more-than-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion at Nigerian illegal oil refinery kills more than 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link to article: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/4\/23\/explosion-at-nigerian-illegal-oil-refinery-kills-more-than-100<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday a fire set fire and exploded an illegal oil refinery in Nigeria. This incident killed over 100 people. The fire and explosion were set ablaze the surrounding area at the illegal bunkering site. This site is common now as poverty\/unemployment have struck the region making illegal oil a good business. The people involved in these bunkerkings tap into crude oil pipelines in the region and place them in makeshift containers which is highly dangerous. While stealing from major oil companies is illegal the oil production also is devastating the environment leaching into water sources and running farmland. The bunkering was one of dozens around southern Nigeria. Nigeria is Africa’s biggest oil producer and the illegal bunkering costs on average 200,000 barrels of oil a day causing major issues in the country and to oil companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My take on this article is that Nigeria along with many other countries has weak governments who barely hold counties together. With issues of wealth, religious, and ethnic divisions and inequality leads to illegal methods to survive. The country has a high unemployment and poverty percentages so to compensate the younger working class had found a way out in oil. This has caused the extortion of oil companies by tapping pipelines to access oil. This has had many negative effectives on human and environmental health but brings in a  living for many men who work these jobs. This oil brings electricity to many, therefore bringing an alliance and solving issues that the government can’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This topic relates to class with ideas of characteristics of a state. There seems to be a lack of legitimacy given to the country of Nigeria by some factors. One being satisfaction in government which seems to be low. Reasons include the high poverty and unemployment rate. This coupled with people searching for illegal methods to live points to a weak government and one the people don’t see fit to rule. This points to economic well being which seems to be poor despite the massive amount of oil in the country. The poor management has led to massive losses everyday which leads people to infer that there is no real commanding force in Nigeria as people seem to step all over as they please. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link to article: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/4\/23\/explosion-at-nigerian-illegal-oil-refinery-kills-more-than-100  Saturday a fire set fire and exploded an illegal oil refinery in Nigeria. This incident killed over 100 people. The fire and explosion were set ablaze the surrounding area at the illegal bunkering site. This site is common now as poverty\/unemployment have struck the region making illegal oil a good business. The people involved in these… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5233,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}