‘Our Community Has Been Suffering’: Total Abandons Nigerian Hospital Built as Compensation for Gas Plant Explosion

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Ohiauga, a remote village in Nigeria, needs a hospital. Seven years ago, it almost got one. 

In 2012, the oil and gas company Total E&P Nigeria, a subsidiary of Total SA, promised to build a modern health centre to compensate the community for an explosion from one of the gas pipes that runs through the area, a disaster which killed the community’s crops and polluted its drinking water.