Oil War – Nigeria
March 92010
June 2005
Nigeria’s lucrative oil reserves may have enriched its politicians but they’ve brought little but misery to ordinary people. Now, a rebel group is fighting for a share of the profits. “I need help. I need help,” begs a woman, clutching her young children in despair. Her home has just been demolished to create luxury housing for foreign oil workers. “The oil boom has turned into the oil doom!” laments Pastor Lekia. Across the Niger Delta, there’s growing resentment at the oil industry. “Corruption pervades the whole place, starting with the way contracts are awarded,” complains lawyer Ledum Mittee. “There seems to be some sort of collusion between the oil companies and those in power.” But militia leader Asari Dokubo has vowed to sever that link. He’s fighting to seize control of the oil and give it back to the people. “We own the oil!” he proclaims. “The thieves are the people in Abuja.” And across Nigeria, young men are flocking to his call. Last September, he spooked the international markets and forced the price of oil to $50 a barrel by threatening to attack foreign oil companies. The government was forced to agree a truce but he’s threatened to rearm unless oil companies leave. Nigerians no longer expect help from their own government. It’s militia leaders like Asari who are winning their trust.
Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
Duration : 0:22:38
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March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
scary itsnt it???
scary itsnt it???
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
The Igbos are now …
The Igbos are now laughing at you all, especially IKWERES, OGONIS etc . Nigeria can go to hell. Igbos have built their areas as businessmen-capitalism. You’re oil has ensalved you
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
They could be a …
They could be a rich country , whenever something of value is found in africa people die
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
It would save the …
It would save the nation cept for the corrupt at the top refusing to actuall distribute any money.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
TEST COMMENT
TEST COMMENT
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Why the many of you …
Why the many of you seat there and about shell and other oil companies….you’d be even more upset if they raised the prices. Would you not? its a catch 22. Best result is to Stop dependence of oil.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
I hate this. How …
I hate this. How could the people in shell be so cold hearted. That’s what greed does to you- it hardens your heart to the pain of the people you affect.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
nice work Shell:)) …
nice work Shell:))
The white elite controls africa again.. true their shadow government….
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
their government …
their government up already
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
“Awolowo was a …
“Awolowo was a devil and his policies led to the present problems that the people of Niger Delta are fighting…the yoruba instead should apologize to the Niger Delta people for the federal government’s policies the late premier of defunct Western Region influenced against the interest of the Niger Delta.” — Asari Dokubo. Champion Newspapers. Tuesday March 22, 2005.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Awolowo dismantled …
Awolowo dismantled Fiscal Federalism in 1968, and as the author of Gowon’s economic policy from 1967 – 1970, he stripped the Southern Nationalities of the Niger Delta of their resource rights and control through the DINA Commission.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
lmao. if this is …
lmao. if this is how BIAFRAN ladies behave., i’ll rather stay in the south west. you are to vulgar. lol
i love the fiestiness tho
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
lol
lol
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Wolf – so are what …
Wolf – so are what you are saying within this statement is that you will continue to abuse and deliberately harm and will thrive on it, no matter what happens within you or your world?
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
yeah, im pretty …
yeah, im pretty satisfied with how it turned out, despite the L. im also a frequenter of “blarg” so i think of the resulting “blah” as a hybrid of sorts. see jorn, you cant limit your “blah’s” to a solitary expression of contempt for mundane ‘blathering’, if you will. you see what i did there? you catch the pun? ohhh we have fun you and i jorn. fun with puns. anyway, i feel ‘blah’ has a (albeit mild) throat-gurgling effect, which better conveys panic-stricken distress than your average ‘bah’.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
equality does not …
equality does not allow for abuse
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
what existed in the …
what existed in the world as a system of communism was not actual equality – so if you look at the ideals of actual communism you can say that it has never actually existed – and was perpetuated by the same forces that brought you capitalism and abused by capitalism to fool you into believing equality does not work – when an equal system has never actually existed in fact – you’ve been fooled – observe capitalism – it is the ultimate abuse system of life and you are defending it
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
you left an ‘L’ in …
you left an ‘L’ in there.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
@WolfSyndrome
…
@WolfSyndrome
capitalising on the disadvantage of another to you own self interest is the root of all evil.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
@Wolf
not an …
@Wolf
not an opinion
direct observation of what is here
equal-money for all from birth to death
no hierarchies, no profit, no debt, no heritage
an interim solution to assist & facilitate man´s self-realization, wherein man will either destroy himself or will stand as a self-willed equal.
the problem always entail the solution.
the problems: human/ system/ money -
the human hasn´t proven trustworthy.
an equal-system will address the acute problems of the world: starvation, famine, war.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
DESTENI ATTTACK!!!! …
DESTENI ATTTACK!!!! BLAHHHHHHHH
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
@Wolf-Sin-Rome
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@Wolf-Sin-Rome
Anyone who is against an EQUAL money system and an EQUAL labour is under the illusion that he/she is more than others and because it is “more than others”, “deserves more” — this is absolutly delusional.
No one is more neither less than anyone – and the proof of this is that we all breathe, eat, shit, and DIE!
OUR DESTENI IS EQUAL!
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
@Wolf-Sin-Rome
…
@Wolf-Sin-Rome
Even though you have absolutly no clue about what “communism” is, you are against it — this just proves how effectively you have been programmed by the CAPITALism.
You are against “communism” because you FEAR, you are afraid – and you do not even see it.
Communism is a political and social structure ideology — an EQUAL MONEY SYSTEM is an EQUAL MONEY SYSTEM that GUARANTEES A LIFE FOR ALL.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
@Wolf
THAT is an …
@Wolf
THAT is an assumption
and only reflects you self-definitions
March 9th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Yes I vote for an …
Yes I vote for an equal money equal labor system.