Nigeria: Country Should Not be in League of Poorest Countries - Shell MD

14 October 2003

Lagos — Outgoing Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, Mr. Ron van den Berg, has described Nigeria's position among the world's poorest countries as a great irony.

Mr Van den Berg, who was hosted to a farewell party last Tuesday in Lagos, said Nigeria had no reason to belong to the league of impoverished nations, given her enormous human and natural resources.

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