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...ADMIRERS BACK IN NIGERIA, Olushina Adekanbi, 36, was revered as the "King of New York." U.S. law-enforcement officials were less adulatory. They knew the dapper Nigerian as a man of more than two dozen aliases who allegedly ran the largest ring of credit-card thieves in the U.S. Authorities busted Adekanbi last September on credit-fraud charges. Then last week, after a five-month investigation, they brought some 200 counts against the still-jailed Adekanbi and seven other Nigerians, including Adekanbi's wife Mary. The quondam king could go to prison for up to 25 years. "We've broken...
Back in November, when no one was taking him very seriously, Forbes might wander off subject and discuss 19th century farming in Nigeria, the infield of the old Brooklyn Dodgers or how in 1820 Americans consumed four times more alcohol on average than they do today. Gone are the self-deprecating gibes about his family business. "I guess you can say I came to the attention of management at an early age," Forbes would say with a grin. His winning quirkiness these days is shielded by a layer of wounded suspicion. When a voter in Earlham, Iowa, asked him whether...
Hafsat O. Abiola '96, a member of the Committee on Nigeria, said she believed the protest was successful in forcing the recruiters to address important concerns...
...What happened tonight was important because we needed to get them to talk about [Shell's] responsibility in [Nigeria]," she said. "We have to repeat it on campuses across the country...
...would hope that employees of Shell would question their own company's role in developing countries, especially Nigeria," said Marco B. Simons '97, the other co-author of the council's resolution on Shell...