Leaked UN report exposes alleged failures, corruption in $1 billion oil spill project Despite the provision of $1 billion funding for the Ogoni cleanup exercise in Rivers state, the federal government agency set up to carry out the exercise ‘failed completely’ to carry out the mandate for years, a report by the Associated Press, quoting leaked United Nations documents, has indicated. The site, outside the city of Port Harcourt, was on a cleanup list kept by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and was supposed to be restored to green farmland...