Abiodun assures safety as Ogun relocates students over methane gas pollution

The Ogun State Government has temporarily relocated students of Our Lady of Apostles Girls Grammar School, Ijebu-Ode, to an alternate determination arsenic investigations into the caller chemic inhalation incidental connected the schoolhouse premises intensify.

Governor Dapo Abiodun disclosed this during an on-the-spot appraisal of the school, noting that preliminary findings person confirmed the beingness of methane state successful the affected area.

The politician explained that the relocation became indispensable to safeguard the wellness and information of students, teachers, and different members of the schoolhouse community, portion besides creating an enabling situation for experts to behaviour a broad probe into the root and origin of the contamination.

He noted that the authorities government, done the Ministries of Environment and Health, is collaborating with the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and the Department of Geology, Olabisi Onabanjo University, to find the basal origin of the incident.

“Twice now, we person recorded cases of contamination successful this schoolhouse and immoderate neighbouring schools.

“What is absorbing is that the state contamination occurred astatine about...