Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council's resolution, which passed with no opposition and 11 abstentions, "requests the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers of Harvard College to adopt a policy of selective purchasing which would prohibit any part of the University or its subsidiaries from buying products from or entering into contracts with oil companies which invest in Nigeria...
...resolution also calls for complete divestment of the University from oil companies presently investing in Nigeria...
Some speakers at the event also called on Harvard to divest its stock in the Shell oil company, which Saro-Wiwa had criticized for exploiting the Ogoni people and polluting their land with oil spills...
...speech at the event, Omoruyi called for an oil embargo, "At the same time as the U.S. condems [General Abacha's] regime it funds his bank accounts," Omoruyi said. The U.S. consumes 50% of Nigeria's oil exports...
...South African leader made the statement. Tuesday, South Africa's soccer federation barred Nigeria's team from playing in South Africa, and calls are mounting for the African National Congress to seek Nigeria's ouster from the Olympic Games as well as a boycott of Nigeria's crucial oil industry. But Purvis reports that South African officials may not want to take it that far. "Indeed, it is not clear how much of an effect censure from South Africa and a few other countries on the continent might have on the Nigerian regime," he says. "Still, South Africa's actions...