Explosion Rocks Trans-Niger Pipeline In Rivers

An explosion has rocked the Trans-Niger pipeline in Rivers.

Glamtush reports that an explosion has rocked the Trans-Niger pipeline in the Bodo community, Gokana Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State.

This news platform understands that the blast took place on the onshore pipeline near the starting point of the Bodo-Bonny road. It reportedly occurred on Monday night along the pipeline that transports crude to the Bonny Export Terminal in Rivers State.

In viral videos of the explosion, thick black smoke billowed into the sky as the fire surged into the mangrove.

While the fire has been put out, the cause of the explosion is unknown at this time. But investigations are ongoing over the incident.

“Up till this moment, we have not been able to get clear details as to what caused that very explosion but investigations are going on,” the Minister of Regional Affairs Abubakar Momoh said on Channels Television’s Lunchtime Politics.

But he said, “I think in due time, a clear picture” of what happened will be known.

Police authorities in the oil-rich state have not commented on the matter as of now.

When Channels Television visited the scene of the explosion on Tuesday afternoon, some members of the community were seen keeping watch over the area.

The TNP is a federal transport line that supplies oil to the Bonny Export Terminal in Rivers State.