January 15, 2012
Mass strikes are costing the country about $600m a day, the government says [Reuters] Nigeria’s government and labour unions have failed to come to an agreement over high gasoline costs, two weeks after $8bn of annual subsidies were slashed causing national protests. “We have not reached a compromise”, Abdulwaheed Omar, Nigeria’s Labour Congress president, told journalists outside the presidential [...]
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January 8, 2012
Lagos Dissents Under IMF Hegemony Nigeria: The Next Front for AFRICOM By Nile Bowie January 08, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — On a recent trip to West Africa, the newly appointed managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde ordered the governments of Nigeria, Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana and Chad to relinquish vital [...]
Tags: Africa, Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund, Lagos, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria, Subsidy, West Africa, World Bank
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January 8, 2012
Nigerian petrol attendants serve customers ahead of a nationwide strike over cuts in state fuel subsidy. Photograph: Sunday Alamba/AP Nigeria faces mass strike and protests over discontinued state fuel subsidy Thousands expected to march through streets of Lagos and Abuja after petrol pump prices more than double overnight The timing could hardly have been worse. [...]
Tags: Abuja, Africa, Boko Haram, Fela Kuti, Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria, Subsidy, United States
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August 13, 2011
Nigerian Oil Pollution May Need World’s Biggest Clean-up and Take 30 Years Gaagaa Gidom, a 60 year-old fisherman and father of eight, looks at the spilled crude oil (AFP/File, Pius Utomi Ekpei) LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. Activists [...]
Tags: Amnesty International, Environmental issues in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, Ogoni people, Oil spill, Politics of Nigeria, Shell Nigeria, United Nations Environment Programme
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August 4, 2011
An oil spill near Oloibiri Town, Bayelsa, Nigeria. Photograph: Ed Kashi/Corbis Cleaning up a succession of oil spills in a region of the Niger delta that have occurred over five decades will cost $1bn and take up to 30 years, according to a major UN report into oil contamination in the region. The United Nations [...]
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August 3, 2011
An oil wellhead in Ogoniland, Niger delta. Photograph: Amnesty International UK The air stinks, the water stinks, and even the fish and crabs caught in Bodo creek smell of pure “sweet bonny” light crude oil. It has found its way deep into the village wells, it lies thick in the mud flats and there are [...]
Tags: Martyn Day, Niger, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Ogoni people, Oil spill, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Nigeria
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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June 17, 2011
Has oil production already peaked? Photograph: Corbis/BarbaraDavidson In public, the last government shrugged off the prospect of peak oil. In private, we know now that it had a different view. A powerpoint presentation released at last by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, in response to freedom of information (FoI) requests by the indefatigable [...]
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June 2, 2011
Three Strikes and You’re Hot Time for Obama to Say No to the Fossil Fuel Wish List By Bill McKibben In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades — those seem so nineteenth century. The earth is flat, or so I remember somebody saying. [...]
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May 27, 2011
These are pretty high stakes when you look at the continued existence of the capital project and the continued concentration of wealth is so few hands. It really seems to be the case that despite what may be being said there really is enough room on the planet for the population today. What we are running out of space for is [...]
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May 19, 2011
Trigger happy murderers in NATO are basically the new cancer on the block in the Middle East. These European invading barbarians know nothing but killing as far as the troops are concerned. Fresh from glory of several thousand years in the killing fields of Europe by air land and sea these new SS Regiments havea true obedience [...]
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May 19, 2011
Barack Obama to back Middle East democracy with billions in aid President pledges cash to support Egypt and Tunisia after criticism US has been too slow to support uprisings Share60 Ewen MacAskill in Washington The Guardian, Thursday 19 May 2011 Article history Barack Obama will use his speech as an attempt to reposition the [...]
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May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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April 26, 2011
Nigeria prepares for violent state races after 500 killed following presidential vote By Associated Press, Monday, April 25, 1:31 PM UYO, Nigeria — Poll workers fled their jobs and tens of thousands of [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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