Nigeria strikes oil
Witness History
English - October 04, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 3.88 MB - ★★★★★ - 853 ratingsHistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In 1956 commercial quantities of oil were discovered in the Nigerian village Oloibiri.
It marked the start of a huge oil industry for Nigeria but came at a cost for villages in the Niger Delta.
Chief Sunday Inengite was 19-years-old when prospectors first came to his village in search of crude oil.
In 2018 he spoke to Alex Last about the impact of the discovery.
(Photo: An oil worker at an oil well in Nigeria. Credit: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)