NIGERIA

  • Democracy Now! April 29, 2003

    Hour 1: Is a better world possible? As Wall Street brokers face record fines, John Cavanagh, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz and Martin Khor examine alternatives to economic globalization; A preventive or preemptive attack? Stanford professor David Palumbo-Liu discusses U.S. military policy Hour 2: The Bush administration binds and gags environmental regulators: We discuss Operation End Extremism, rocket…

  • Democracy Now! April 29, 2003

    The Bush administration binds and gags environmental regulators: We discuss Operation End Extremism, rocket fuel contaminated lettuce and gag-orders on the EPA; Democratic elections in Nigeria?: The voting ended a week ago but the results are still in dispute. We talk with Nigerian student leader Sowore Omoyele; Native American who denies US or Canadian citizenship…

  • Democracy Now! July 19, 2002

    NIGERIAN WOMEN END THEIR UNPRECEDENTED PEACEFUL PROTEST AGAINST CHEVRON/PENTAGON’S PLANS FOR A PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGICAL ARSENAL FOR USE IN THE US |New documents reveal a Pentagon program’s shocking plans to promote using psychopharmacological weapons and mind-altering drugs including Valium sprays, chemical cocktails, hallucinogens, fast- acting anti-depressants, and animal traquilizers. Then, the Justice Department secretly charters an airlift…

  • Democracy Now! July 23, 2002

    ISRAEL BOMBS CROWDED GAZA NEIGHBORHOOD, 2ND LARGEST BEEF RECALL IN US HISTORY |Israel bombs crowded Gaza neighborhood, killing a top Hamas leader, his wife, his daughter, and eight other children. Then, US oil giant ChevronTexaco suspends some of its exports after lightening strikes and women stage an unprecedented, peaceful, 10-day occupation. We’ll go to Nigeria…

  • Democracy Now! January 16, 2002

    Accounting giant Arthur Anderson fires a partner it says led the shredding of Enron documents. Money and connections bought Enron power. Can they buy it innocence as well? : A Nigerian woman is sentenced to death for adultery; if she loses her appeal, she will be buried up to her waist in sand and stoned…

  • Democracy Now! August 27, 2001

    DRILLING AND KILLING: CHEVRON AND NIGERIA’S OIL DICTATORSHIP: A ONE HOUR DOCUMENTARY [Replay of DN! September 30, 1998] |Almost as regularly as the US bombs oil-rich Iraq, an oil pipeline of one multinational or other bursts somewhere in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. President Clinton has just returned from Africa’s most populous country. He went…

  • Democracy Now! February 24, 1999

    Sentencing Phase of Jasper Trial Begins; Chevron Linked to Violence in Nigeria; Nigeria Human Rights Watch |Sentencing Phase of Jasper Trial Begins After a week of hearing gruesome testimony and examining grisly evidence, it took a Texas jury of 10 whites and one African American less than three hours to find John William King, an…

  • Democracy Now! March 2, 1999

    Nigerian Elections; Race and Class in U.S. Criminal Justice System |Nigerian Elections Nigerian president-elect Olusegun Obansajo, a former general in the Nigerian military, Urged his defeated rival, former finance minister Olu Falae, to accept the outcome of a diputed weekend election and join him to revive the West African nation. Falao said he plans to…

  • Democracy Now! March 4, 1999

    Lori Berenson: MIT Graduate in Peruvian Prison; Nigerian Elections; Police Brutality in the U.K.; Mumia Town Meeting; Geronimo Pratt Interview |Lori Berenson: MIT Graduate in Peruvian Prison As Attorney General Janet Reno yesterday wrapped up an international conference of Latin American justice ministers in Lima, Peru, Amy Goodman was able to conduct the first ever…

  • Democracy Now! February 2, 1999

    Death in the Niger Delta; Ecuadorian Rainforest Communities Sue Texaco; Noam Chomsky on the New World Order |Death in the Niger Delta At least 19 people were killed and another 10 were seriouslyinjured in the Niger Delta this weekend when Nigerian military forces opened fire on a group of protesters at a shell oil facility.…