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Corporate accountability

Stop corporate abuse in the Niger Delta

Corporations frequently exploit the weak regulatory systems in many poor countries, making people living in poverty some of the most vulnerable to corporate human rights abuses.
People living in the oil-producing areas of Nigeria’s Niger Delta have seen their human rights undermined by an industry that their government cannot or will not hold to account. Oil pollution has damaged traditional livelihoods such as fishing and agriculture, put people’s health at risk and undermined access to safe food and clean water. Many victims have not had access to justice or redress.

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Clean up the oil industry in the Niger Delta

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Urge Nigeria’s newly-elected President to commit to a comprehensive clean-up of pollution in the Niger Delta. His public support will push the oil industry to address the devastating impact of their bad practice.
The Nigerian government has a duty to protect the people of the Niger Delta from the impact of pollution – tell the President to effectively regulate the oil industry.
Nigeria’s government must hold the oil companies to account. The oil companies must clean up their act.

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Northen Nigerian leaders accused of supporting Boko Haram

Northen Nigerian leaders accused of supporting Boko Haram

WRITTEN BY KONYE OBAJI ORI
THURSDAY, 04 AUGUST 2011 16:3
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), a northern ethno-political organisation has been accused of sponsoring terrorism perpetrated by the extremist Islamist group, Boko Haram. Map of Nigeria The northern chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) made the accusation following the federal government’s decision to engage Boko Haram. President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration asked members of the ACF and the Borno Elders Forum to engage Boko Haram in dialogue on behalf of other Nigerians. Protesting against the decision to negotiate with Boko Haram, the secretary-general of the northern chapter of CAN, Saidu Dogo on Tuesday told journalists in Kaduna that the government had made a fundamental error. “It is an exercise in futility because prominent northern leaders are behind the security challenges the nation now faces,” Dogo said. “Where will these people (Boko Haram) get resources to buy explosives and chemicals and put them together to make bombs and start attacking innocent Nigerians?” The accusations also followed reports that the federal government would assemble a committee comprising of ACF leaders to engage Boko Haram. Dogo alleged that the same Arewa leaders that Jonathan had deployed for the talks were behind the armed group. However, the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, speaking at the inauguration of the eight-man presidential committee on security challenges in the North-East zone said the government could not negotiate with Boko Haram because “it is a faceless organisation.” The federal government said it established an eight-man committee not to have peace talks with Boko Haram but gather information from them. “The purpose of the committee is not to negotiate with the Boko Haram sect,” Anyim was quoted as having said. “This is because we cannot negotiate with people whom we do not know. “This is not a negotiating thing, the committee is there to review all the issues of security challenges in the zone and proffer solutions or recommendations, which will bring a speedy resolution of the crisis. “Negotiation may be after the report of the committee, if it is recommended that government should try to negotiate with the sect, then it may be considered.” http://www.theafricareport.com/archives2/politics/5168574-northen-nigerian-leaders-accused-of-supporting-boko-haram.html The committee has two weeks to submit its report to liaise with the National Security Adviser (NSA). But Dogo argued that since the Boko Haram had listed its demands which were impossible to meet, especially adopting Shari’a law throughout Nigeria, the committee’s efforts were bound to fail. “Why then do you start something that will end in futility? It is not going to work because they (Boko Haram) have their beliefs. That as long as the Nigerian nation exists, Sharia must be practiced and imbibed by everybody, which can never happen,” he said. “What is the government going to negotiate with the sect? Would the government ask them to forget their Islamic belief?  To me, I feel that this is an exercise in futility. The government should not have constituted the committee.”

NIGERIA.......SECONDO JESSICA

Nigeria è sentirsi kiamare ''aunt'' o ''mma'' dai ragazzini o addirittura dai cugini..è 

ammazzarsi 

dalle risate x strada tra gli insulti degli autisti..è 

avere smp paura k qlc1 da 1mome all'altro t possa rubare qlcs aprendo la porta della makkina 

o addirittura semplicemnt dal finestrino..Nigeria

è avere smp 1torcia n borsa a causa della scarsità d NEPA..è1posto dv nn puoi camminare x 

strada snz cnquistare qlc1 -.-'

è1posto dv gli autobus hanno nomi legati a Dio! la Nigeria è dove la gente già dalle 6 d 

mattina   mette la musica cristiana a palla cosi da 

  

svegliare tt il vicinato -.-' è un luogo dove c è traffico anke tra i pedoni!

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