1. Nigeria to Limit Domestic Banks’ Market Share to 20% 2. Nigeria in big scamster crackdown 3. Achebe calls for revolution in Nigeria 4. Berlin Wall: 20 years after the fall (with video) 5. Some (Possibly Heretical) Thoughts on Agriculture 6. Is UK Aid failing?
reports the BBC: Nigerian officials are reportedly planning to give 10% of the country’s oil revenues to people in the Niger Delta, an area plagued by insurgencies. Presidential adviser Emmanuel Egbogah told the UK’s Financial Times that the money would go directly to communities, bypassing powerful state governors. Analysts say the government fears local officials… Read More »
Ban the use of foreign products at official functions and in government offices: Nigeria’s Daily Champion -The Federal Government on Tuesday imposed a ban on the use of foreign beverages at official functions and in government offices. The ban covers tea, coffee, biscuits, fruit juices, water and soft drinks. President Umaru Yar’Adua gave the directive… Read More »
Krugman speaking on Finland: Speaking at a forum on Finland’s economic development organised by the Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra, Krugman said that technically the global economy began to rebound at the end of the summer. He added, however, that unemployment could worsen for up to a year and a half, despite growth. “Prospects for slow… Read More »
A news story on crossing from Benin to Nigeria, through the Seme border: “At every half kilometre, you encounter checkpoints manned by all sorts of agencies. This is a real problem to the sub-region,” he said. “On a bad day, from the Seme border down to Lagos, you meet over 70 checkpoints and they all… Read More »
… a new blog hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Check out my friend Boris’s post on gaining fieldwork access to a public administration office in Stuttgart, Germany. Each field site has its own peculiarities. But they all have one thing in common: waiting.
$140 per barrel is the appropriate price of crude oil – Rilwanu Lukman, Nigerian Petroleum Resources Minister. Hat-tip to Nigeria, What’s New?. Mr Obasanjo on Hardtalk. The disconnect of the Pope. Are we really in the age of mass intelligence? Individuals give NGOs more funds than donors. The Berlin wall came down 20 years ago… Read More »
I just read in the current edition of Intelligent Life: Adichie’s follow-up to “Half of a Yellow Sun” is a collection of stories about Nigeria’s professional classes ans their struggle to cope with corruption, which infects every aspect of their lives from school exams to hospital treatment. The luckier ones can escape to a new… Read More »
Naomi Klein on the similarities between 2002 Argentina and present day Iceland. Akin on the Pfizer/Nigeria legal battle. Was the recent Jos violence a religious violence? Check out this BBC podcast. Who has the right to carry a Nigerian diplomatic passport? Next. The world’s largest cybercafe? NigerianCuriosity
Image via Wikipedia … but did not notify the legislature, or let his vice deputise for him. His lawyer, Mr Alex Izinyon interprets this excerpt of Section 145 of the Nigerian constitution: Whenever the President transmits to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representative a written declaration that he… Read More »