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...years later, I have just cosponsored an order before the Cambridge City Council requesting the city to decline any investment related to Shell Oil, which today underwrites the oppressive regime of Gen. Sani Abacha in Nigeria, where the democratically elected President Moshood K. Abiola has been imprisoned and his wife Kudirat murdered. Their daughter (Hafsat O. Abiola '96-'97) has asked that we join her in a human-rights campaign. I am prepared...
While Harvard's involvement with Shell has raised awareness of the Nigerian situation around campus, the recent death of Kuridat Abiola, wife of the deposed president, has also heightened concern across the University...
Daughter of the imprisoned president-elect of Nigeria and his recently-assassinated wife. Abiola speaks at university, local and state legislature meetings about the situation in her home country whenever the organizations have related resolutions pending. At Harvard, that means urging the University to divest from companies such as Shell Oil that support the regime in Nigeria...
Perhaps the most moving call for international activism comes from Hafsat O. Abiola '96-'97, the director of the Harvard Committee on Nigeria...
Soon after Saro-Wiwa's execution, Hafsat Abiola convinced the Undergraduate Council to pass a resolution calling for University divestment from Nigeria...