Labour unions are angry at the alleged inhumane treatment of colleagues by three oil companies. Oil workers in Nigeria yesterday, July 3, 2013, ended a three-day warning strike over alleged poor working conditions for Nigerian staff in Agip, Chevron and Shell…
By Kimeng Hilton Ndukong, 3 July 2013
Labour unions are angry at the alleged inhumane treatment of colleagues by three oil companies.
Oil workers in Nigeria yesterday, July 3, 2013, ended a three-day warning strike over alleged poor working conditions for Nigerian staff in Agip, Chevron and Shell oil companies and the non-implementation of a collective bargaining agreement with petroleum tanker drivers, Thisday newspaper reported.
An emergency meeting on Monday, July 1, 2013 between the Federal government, the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and three oil companies, ended in deadlock. NUPENG had earlier on Monday directed all its members at the depots of the concerned oil companies to stop loading petroleum products for three days to protest their treatment by management. The strike was also called to protest the refusal by the Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) to implement the signed collective bargaining agreement with petroleum tanker drivers.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reported that there was obstruction of traffic in some areas of the commercial capital, Lagos on Tuesday with long queues of motorists forming at filling stations. In Kaduna in the north, transport fares and the cost of petrol went up, with filling stations remaining shut for the second day running on Tuesday. A gallon of petrol sold for 700 Naira (about FCFA 2,211) as against 500 Naira (about FCFA 1,580).
Meanwhile, 1,653 suspects were arrested and 3,778 illegal refineries destroyed in the last one year in the anti-illegal bunkering campaign by the Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta. The Guardian newspaper cited the Minister of State for Defence, Dr Olusola Obada, as saying that 120 barges, 878 ‘Cotonou’ boats, 161 tanker trucks, 178 illegal fuel dumps and 5,238 surface tanks were also destroyed within the same period.
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
