Word: nigerianism
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...deal with allegations of unethical labor practices in the mid-1990s, Big Oil long resisted calls to clean up its act. BP and Shell were the first to change. In Shell's case, the firm was shaken by two scandals in quick succession: the execution in 1995 of Nigerian poet Ken Saro-Wiwa, who vigorously contested Shell's oil operations in Nigeria, and the company's plans that same year to sink the Brent Spar oil rig in the North Sea. Both sparked huge international protests and boycott calls that led to a change of management and a complete revamp...
...wife says I use the hand phone so much that my brain is damaged." Eric, a Singaporean man who lost $191,000 in a Nigerian e-mail scam...
OVERTURNED. The conviction of AMINA LAWAL, 32, a Nigerian single mother; of adultery, a crime for which she was sentenced to death by stoning; by an Islamic appeals court; in Katsina, Nigeria. Lawal, whose sentence provoked international criticism and heightened tensions between the country's Christians and Muslims, would have been the first woman to be stoned to death since 12 states adopted Shari'a, or strict Islamic law, starting...
...recently traded telecom for something more earthy, joining British mining outfit Anglo American as deputy CEO for South Africa. As head of the international division at MTN Group, a South African mobile-phone operator, he led an expansion into the Nigerian market, where the company now claims 1.3 million subscribers and 59% market share. A fan of jazz and biographies, he will help AA with strategy, government relations and black economic empowerment initiatives...
...stores and not the corner Wal-Mart. Similarly, Gucci's Ford, who is widely praised for his seeming inattention to the color of a model's skin, has signed Indian model Ujjwala Raut to represent Yves Saint Laurent cosmetics, and Lancome has hired Japanese-German-British Devon Aoki and Nigerian-born Oluchi...