Does unrest in Nigeria's oil heartland matter?
- added July 16, 2008
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Ahead of the UK Prime Minister's meeting with the Nigerian leader, Reuters takes on the question: WHY IS THE DELTA IMPORTANT?
We tried to address this question last year with our piece, "Rebels in the Pipeline". Nigeria is the most important oil producer in a region that is expected to supply an increasing percentage of our energy needs. But 50 years of oil production has translated into very little for the people of Nigeria. I think what we're seeing with how all the unrest there is contributing to higher gas prices here demonstrates with sobering clarity how corruption, poverty and oppression in one country can have resounding effects in this increasingly interconnected world.
We tried to address this question last year with our piece, "Rebels in the Pipeline". Nigeria is the most important oil producer in a region that is expected to supply an increasing percentage of our energy needs. But 50 years of oil production has translated into very little for the people of Nigeria. I think what we're seeing with how all the unrest there is contributing to higher gas prices here demonstrates with sobering clarity how corruption, poverty and oppression in one country can have resounding effects in this increasingly interconnected world.
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If you really want to over through the powers that be, 1. Drop your guns, and pick up your brains, because the world is not fighting like that anymore. 2. The richest man in the world does not carry a gun, people do it for him. THINK, THINK, THINK, but if you can't.... email me, and I'll teach you....
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Facts are Facts! This is a war for financial gain,the Delta militants and the Northern politicians suckled from the same teat. Greed is their motive, as they both have the same agenda.
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No.... it's POWER, everything is about POWER...but the one who knows how to use his or her brain will win. Weapons are the tools of the mind, but they change form....The mind created GREED (a weapon!!!), the mind created poverty (a weapon!!!), the mind created money (a weapon!!!), and if you are not smart enough you will dye. POWER is everyones motive...
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