Section 18: Establishment of National Control and Response Centre.

(1) There is established for purposes of this Act, a National Control and Response Centre (in this Act referred to as "the Centre") which shall:
(a) act as a report processing and response co-ordinating centre for all oil spillage incidents in Nigeria;
(b) receive all reports of oil spillages from the zonal offices and control units of the Agency;
(c) serve as the command and control centre for compliance monitoring of all existing legislation on environmental control, surveillance for oil spill detection and monitoring and co-ordinating responses required in plan activations.
(2) The Centre shall be headed by such officer of the Agency as may be designated from time to time.
(3) The officer so designated under subsection (2) of this section shall report to the Director-General of the Agency on all activities of the Centre.