To most corporations, making a profit is goal number one – but some of those companies take it way too far, sacrificing the health of the planet and most times the life of Nigerians for a bigger bank balance.

Far too many corporations turn a blind eye to the consequences of their destructive, exploitative practices.

These corporations deserve a special place in hell for all of their atrocities, yet they continue to rake billions from Nigerians daily. Their crimes range from human right abuses, war, eco disasters, bribery and corruption (we are kinda used to that) and many more.

Prepare to be disgusted.

1. Shell Nigeria

When you think about Shell, the first image that comes to your mind is a dream organisation that provides big money jobs to Nigerians and scholarship to Nigerian students. What a lovely company, right? Wrong.

When the military tortured and executed some environmental activist in 1995, they claimed Shell was pulling the strings. In 2009, shell compensated families of the slain protesters with $75 million which is like asking a mass murderer to pay a fine of N50.

That just the tip of the iceberg, in 2009 internal memos surfaced that shell paid the military to use force on the protesters.

According Wikileaks documents released in 2010, Shell’s head of Nigerian operation bragged to the U.S government that the company had infiltrated pretty much every relevant ministry of Nigeria’s government and was secretly calling the shots from behind the scenes.

Shell’s horrendous track record in Nigeria includes embedding spies in the Nigerian government; paying rival militant gangs;engaging in corruption (not only in Nigeria); arming police spies;undercover activity using a private spy firm (Hakluyt) and associating Shell with murder and human rights abuses.

Shell has such a shameful record in Nigeria, including plunder and pollution on an epic scale, that it has even considered ditching the Shell global brand name.

Such a radical move would also distance the company from its Nazi past.

2. Chevron

Chevron was responsible for the death of several Nigerians who protested the company’s polluting, exploiting presence in the Nigerian Delta.

Chevron paid army, to squash the protests, and even supplied them with choppers and boats.

The military opened fire on the protesters then burned their villages to the ground.

You’d think that they are only cruel to Nigerian, well unfortunately no. Between 1972 and 1993, Chevron (then Texaco) discharged 18 billion gallons of toxic water into the rain forests of Ecuador without any remediation, destroying the livelihoods of local farmers and sickening indigenous populations.

Chevron has also done plenty of polluting the U.S, in 1998, Richmond, California sued Chevron for illegally bypassing waste water treatments and contaminating local water supplies.

3. Coca Cola

In addition to contaminating the environment, using child labor and campaigning to get restaurant to stop drinking water, the soft-drink giant has made a habit of using paramilitary organizations to do their dirty jobs for them.

Coca Cola corporation has wrought devastation in India, where its factories use up to one million liters of water per day, leaving tens of thousands of nearby residents dry during the drought months.

Like that is the worst of it, Coca Cola disposes of the wastewater improperly, contaminating whatever water is left.

A lawsuit in 2001 accused Coca Cola of hiring paramilitaries in Columbia which suppressed unionization in the cola plant there through intimidation, torture and murder.

Dozens of union members at Coke bottling plants and their families have been systematically threatened, beaten, kidnapped and murdered across the globe.

4. Pfizer

Pfizer travelled to Kano, Nigeria to try out an experimental antibiotic on third-world diseases such as measles, cholera, and bacterial meningitis. They gave trovafloxacin to approximately 200 children. Dozens of them died in the experiment, while many others developed mental and physical deformities.

Pfizer settled with Nigerian authorities for $75 million only after Pfizer had hired investigators to uncover corruption links to Federal Attorney General Michael Aondoakaa to expose him and put pressure on him to drop the federal case.

Pfizer is guilty of some of the most despicable price gouging in corporate history: it keeps its HIV/AIDS-related drugs out of the hands of the world’s poor, who need them the most. Pfizer has aggressively fought efforts to make these drugs more affordable, refusing to grant generic licenses for HIV/AIDS drugs.

Pfizer pleaded guilty in 2009 to the largest health care fraud in U.S. history, receiving the largest criminal penalty ever for illegally marketing four of its drugs. It was Pfizer’s fourth such case.

According to the EPA, Pfizer can also proudly claim to be among the top ten companies in America causing the most air pollution.

5. Nestle

Nestle uses cocoa harvested by slave labor, in Ivory Coast where over 600,000 children are estimated to be working in dangerous conditions in cocoa farms.

Nestle hired women to dress as nurses to hand out free infant formula, which was frequently mixed with contaminated water, or the children starved when the formula ran out and their mothers could not afford more and their breast milk had already dried up from disuse. Thats just evil.

Nestle attracted worldwide boycott efforts for urging mothers in third-world countries to use their infant milk replacer instead of breastfeeding, without warning them of the possible negative effects.

Nestle’s crimes against man and nature include massive deforestation in Borneo — the habitat of the critically endangered orangutan — to grow palm oil, and buying milk from farms illegally-seized by a despot in Zimbabwe.

Nestle drew fire from environmentalists for its ridiculous claims that bottled water is “eco-friendly” when the exact opposite is true.

6. Apple

The rich folk amongst us are probably reading this on one of their products. Apple is arguably one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

For starters, Apple’s Chinese suppliers use child labour. In 2010, the company uncovered 91 children working at its factories. These same juveniles were often put to work lifting heavy goods with zero training. The most-recent audit found the number of child workers had risen from 96 – 106.

Apple is also guilty of Tax Evasion, Blackmailing Congress and Aggressive Litigation.

Apple tried to patent the idea of unlocking your phone by swiping; the use of square icons to denote apps; the ability to enlarge documents by touching the screen and making the phones rectangular . In case you’ve never seen one before, that basically describes a smartphone.

7. Abercrombie and Fitch

The CEO and former Chairman of Abercrombie & Fitch, has a history of fat-shaming young women. According to Business Insider, the retailer had a longtime policy that prohibited stocking “XL or XXL sizes in women’s clothing because they don’t want overweight women wearing their brand.”

“We hire good-looking people in our stores. Because good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people. We don’t market to anyone other than that,” Jeffries told Salon in 2006

8. Fifa

FIFA is the organization behind just about every big soccer match on Earth: A company so devoted to clusters of grown men kicking a ball around a muddy field that it’s willing to trade the lives of 2,000 innocent people to make it happen.

How did they achieving this?

You’ve probably heard of Qatar. In 2010, the oil-rich country won the bid to host the 2022 soccer World Cup. Part of their contract as host nation requires the construction of a brand new stadium right in the heart of the burning desert. And for thousands of the Nepalese migrants working on it, that equals a death sentence.

Abuse in Qatar is rife. Workers are made to work in 50°Celsius (122°F) heat with no access to water, and being beaten or starved for speaking out.

According to The Guardian, around one migrant worker is currently dying per day—with more than 2,000 expected to have been killed by the time of the World Cup.

9. International Olympic Comitee

Not many of us have read the IOC’s Olympic Charter (pdf). Basically, it’s a document that sets out the “fundamental principles” of the Olympics, including a commitment to human rights, equality and “the preservation of human dignity.”

It’s the closest the Olympics have to a Constitution, and right now the IOC is allowed Russia to systematically crap all over it.

In preparation for the Olympics in Russia, the country, illegally evicted 2,000 people from their homes, allowed the abuse of 70,000 migrant workers in violation of Russian law and began (continued?)arbitrarily detaining journalists.

You would expect the IOC to step in and intervene or canceal the games altogether.

10.Siemens

Siemens is an electronics manufacturer that makes everything from car parts to vacuum cleaners—and, in times past, Nazi gas chambers. If you’ve ever wondered who was willing to take the job of building the group-sized hydrogen cyanide chambers used in Auschwitz, now you know. They were also immersed in building the infamous train system of Nazi-era Germany, the Reichsbahn, which transported Jews to the concentration camps.

And it’s not as if they were on the fringe of the war—Siemens funded the Nazi Party during the 1930′s and actively supported Hitler’s regime once the war broke out. They had more than 400 factories operating throughout Germany by late 1944, many of which used Jewish labor.

But that’s old news; these days, they’ve moved on to more modern endeavors like spearheading a worldwide electronics cartel, bribing government officials, and bribing the entire country of Greece.

What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comment section below


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so what? we should stop drinking coca cola products or stop using apple gadgets??

Really?

That's all I can say after browsing through.

CSTANU:
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You've just violated land use decree(act) 1979.
You hereby sentenced to ..........

How about President Jonathan's corporation that has succeeded in expanding more the bridge between the rich and the poort?

“All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. As with the banking sector, they play games with the lives of millions, hysterically reject any kind of government intervention when the profits are rolling in, but are quick to pass the bill for the cleanup and the far-reaching consequences of these avoidable tragedies to the public when things go wrong. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple.”
― Michael Hureaux-Perez

“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder, in conditions that grow ever more insecure, to enrich the few. Democratic politics, which purports to enrich the many, is actually in the pocket of those bankers, media barons and other moguls who run and own everything.”
― Charles Moore

“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors,' and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, callous 'cash payment.' It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.

The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.”
― Karl Marx

“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People."

(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)”
― Eugene V. Debs,

“In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin...”
― Malcolm X

What of zenon and forte oil that bribed their way into the heart of farouk lawan and uses a fine girl like tiwa as their pump attendant?

What of mtn that sold sim card for #40,000 when sim card is truly not worth #100?

What of dangote plc that uses child labour, uses
soldiers to supress demonstration and uses PhD holders as their drivers?

The world is a evil place. Good people are becoming an endangered species

and where is MTN?

Honestly, Coca-Cola companies are ripping us off. Their line of products way too inferior compared to the ones produced abroad. We gotta sue that company.

Where's dangote

In 2010 a dangote truck driving through makurdi gboko highway along University Road lost control, killed two students about 10 was injured no known compensation was paid student protest was quashed the driver abandoned the truck though it was later burnt

Where's dangote

Where's dangote

In 2010 a dangote truck driving through makurdi gboko highway along University Road lost control, killed two students about 10 was injured no known compensation was paid student protest was quashed the driver abandoned the truck though it was later burnt

Where's dangote


Where's Nigerian Army?
Where's Nigerian Police force??

This has not really changed my mind about joining any of these organizations if the opportunity comes.

victorels:
Really?

That's all I can say after browsing through.

You should have just kept quiet

Op, u sure say u no go like work for any of the evil corporations so?

You forgot Asiwaju Group of Companies. LASG being a subsidary alongside the entire sw apart from Ekiti and Ondo

Of them all, I hate banks the most.

Op u forgot to add Man - Must - Wack International Ltd