The U.S. consumer buys a lot of oil from Nigeria. How much? Over 500,000 barrels per day. Nigeria is the 6th largest supplier of oil to the U.S.

When U.S. companies found oil in Nigeria, they told the Nigerian people how much better life was going to be for them with the millions of dollars flowing into their country from the sale of oil.

This was a lie told to the Nigerian people so that oil companies in the U.S. could profit. What most U.S. consumers don’t know is that their consumption of oil is killing Nigeria.

Worse, big oil executives have known what is happening to Nigeria because of the oil trade for years now, but still they continue to use their Washington lobbyists to delay solar power development.

The video you are about to see shows how the oil trade in Nigeria has enriched politicians both in the U.S. and Nigeria, as well as the big oil companies, while bringing suffering to ordinary people.

Gangs have formed in a kind of mini-civil war for who should control the oil.

Average peoples homes are demolished in order to create luxury housing for foreign oil workers and oil executives.

A pastor who has had his church demolished in the name of the oil trade laments, "The oil boom has turned into the oil doom."

A woman who has just had her home demolished, in the name of oil, clutches her young children and begs, "I need help. I need help."

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