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Hello Edit Profile | Sign Out Sign In | Register Now PRINT EDITION | Subscribe to SEARCH: News Web by Top 20 E-mailed Articles washingtonpost.com  > Business > Latest Wires Print This Article E-Mail This Article Quick Quotes Tables | Portfolio | Index RSS News Feeds Top News Latest Wires What is RSS? | All RSS Feeds Nigeria Strike to Target Oil Exports By DULUE MBACHU The Associated Press Sunday, October 31, 2004; 6:36 PM LAGOS, Nigeria - Unions declared the top oil multinational here, Royal Dutch/Shell, "an enemy of the Nigerian people" on Sunday and called a Nov. 16 nationwide strike that they said would target oil exports in Africa's oil giant. The threats in the world's No. 7 oil exporter - the fifth largest supplier of U.S. oil imports - appeared likely to send new shocks through the global oil price market. () SEE FULL COLLECTION Feedback _____News from Nigeria_____ • Politics Delay U.S. Airlift Of Peacekeepers to Sudan (The Washington Post, Oct 26, 2004) • AU Guiding Start-Up of College in Nigeria (The Washington Post, Oct 23, 2004) • Nigerians Accused of Enslaving, Abusing Juvenile (The Washington Post, Oct 14, 2004) • Gay N.H. Bishop Brings Message of Inclusion (The Washington Post, Oct 11, 2004) _____Free E-mail Newsletters_____ • TechNews Daily Report See a Sample  |  Sign Up Now • Personal Finance See a Sample  |  Sign Up Now • Personal Tech See a Sample  |  Sign Up Now • Tech Policy & Security See a Sample  |  Sign Up Now Unions called the Nov. 16 strike after giving President Olusegun Obasanjo until Sunday to reverse September's 23 percent increase in fuel prices in Nigeria. Union leaders singled out Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Nigeria's largest petroleum producer. They said the firm planned to take the country's white-collar oil union to court on Monday, in an attempt to prevent it from striking. Shell officials would not comment on the matter and government officials could not be reached. "We have resolved to declare Shell an enemy of the Nigerian people," Adams Oshiomhole, leader of the main Nigeria Labor Congress, told reporters. "Shell will be treated as an enemy. We have the capacity to engage them," Oshiomhole said, without elaborating. An October general strike over the fuel price increases paralyzed business overall but left petroleum exports unaffected. The strike helped push oil prices past the $50 a barrel mark globally. "The last time we did not target oil exports because we expected the government to listen," Brown Ogbeifun, president of the union for Nigeria's white-collar oil workers, said. "Now that the government will not listen, we have no option but to target exports," Ogbeifun said. Nigeria exports 2.5 million barrels a day. Strikes in Nigeria often are violent, at times deadly. Separately, gangs and ethnic militias vying for local shares of the oil wealth repeatedly have targeted foreign oil producers with kidnappings, takeovers and sabotage. In March 2003, fighting between rival ethnic militia groups near the port city of Warri - which also drew in government troops - forced oil companies to shut down 40 percent of Nigeria's oil exports for weeks. Much of that oil remains shut off. (Substitutes second paragraph to correct that Nigeria is fifth largest supplier of U.S. oil imports.) Print This Article E-Mail This Article RSS Feed © 2004 The Associated Press Featured Advertiser Links • Free Health Newsletter • Legacy of Wealth for your Family-Free Report • Health Advice so Obsolete it�s Dangerous • A Perfect Stock In An Imperfect World... FREE • Cash Fast at a Great Low Rate with E-LOAN • Start Your Own Microbusiness For $100 Or Less • New Bose® Wave® music system. Free shipping. SEARCH: News Web by Top 20 E-mailed Articles © Copyright 1996- The Washington Post Company   |   User Agreement and Privacy Policy   |   Rights and Permissions   |   Home washingtonpost.com: Contact Us | About Us | Work at washingtonpost.com | Advertise | Media Center | Site Index | Site Map | Archives E-mail Newsletters | RSS Feeds | Wireless Access | Our headlines on your site | Make Us Your Homepage | mywashingtonpost.com The Washington Post: Subscribe | Subscriber Services | Advertise | Electronic Edition | Online Photo Store The Washington Post Company: Information | Other Post Co. Websites

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