Inua Eyet IkotWorld Bank data: Nigeria flared 6.6 billion cubic metres in 2025.

The total, up from 5.1 billion in 2023, contradicts a pledge to end flaring by 2030.

Oil majors selling ageing fields to local operators also sell the emissions, and flaring at one Akwa Ibom field rose sevenfold after sale.

“We cannot use rainwater here,” said Idiok Godwin, a bricklayer living beside the stack.

The upstream regulator pushed emissions-measurement deadlines to 2027, and no company has faced sanctions for withholding data.

How each outlet framed it
Premium Times Nigeria leans critical
Reports residents' health impacts from flaring; frames rise as contradiction between Nigeria's environmental pledges and weak enforcement

Sources: Premium Times Nigeria