ABUJA Aug 4 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Ogoniland in the oil-rich Niger Delta has suffered 50 years of pollution and could need the world's largest ever oil clean-up, the United Nations said in a report on Thursday.
"The environmental restoration of Ogoniland could prove to be the world's most wide-ranging and long term oil clean-up exercise ever undertaken," a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report said.
UNEP said the total restoration could take up to 30 years and would need a $1 billion fund to kick-start the work.
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