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A Nigerian woman reviewed some tomato puree online. Now she faces jail (www.cnn.com)

submitted 7 months ago by MrJameGumb@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's shittons of oil in Nigeria, and most of it is being siphoned off by multinational oil companies.

No need to invade if you can just get the corrupt government you're propping up to sell it to you cheap in the first place.

[–] kindenough@kbin.social 30 points 7 months ago

Dutch person here, fuck Shell.