"Today there is widespread rebellion in Nigeria. A people’s revolution is on the order of the day. The first tasks will be to totally dissolve the current government including its military and judiciary and establish a people’s government that nationalizes the oil to spend oil money on meeting the needs of the Nigerian people rather than enriching Shell share holders and corrupt dictators."

Good for them - the only people Nigeria have to blame are themselves, 120 million of them should be able to make a difference - provided the tribal politics and religion don't get in the way and they just wind up killing each other like they're doing now.

"What the corrupt puppet dictators of the Nigerian government get out of the whole deal is not even a drop in the bucket compared to what Shell oil has and continues to plunder. "

Indeed... One wonders what could have happened if the government had actually used the tax revenue from the oil on something other than themselves.

You can't blame Shell, it's a company - it's motivation is profit - We shouldn't bother glossing anything over. Shell did what it should be doing - the Nigerian Government did not because the people allow it to abuse.