LAGOS, Nigeria, July 24 A high level Shell Nigeria employee was approved by the country’s Senate to become the next oil minister under the new government.
President Umaru Yar’Adua nominated Diezani Alison-Madueke for the oil post in Africa’s largest oil producer. Alison-Madueke is from the oil-rich and troubled Niger Delta region state of Vayelsa.
Her nomination is seen as a move to reconcile the restive area, where residents accuse past governments of exploiting the oil wealth and returning little money to the area, the global energy information firm Platts reports.
Violence has shaken the area, where militants rule and clash with government forces. A common tactic is kidnapping foreign oil company workers as leverage in the disagreement or to raise cash from ransoms.
Alison-Madueke is the external relations director of the Shell Petroleum Development Co., the first woman to sit on that board.
Yar’Adua took office at the end of May and is expected to make his cabinet official Wednesday.
Copyright 2007 by UPI
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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