A couple of weeks ago I discovered the National Public Radio’s This American Life podcast. Through that, I discovered the NPR’s pool of podcasts. I personally find the Jazz Profiles and Planet Money podcasts very nice. Of course, you can listen to them live if you live in the US. I find their model very… 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 »
Mr Kunle Alake, the Dangote Group COO, tells BusinessDay that the textile industry in Nigeria cannot be viable, and he cites the usual suspect: smuggling. “The Nigerian textile industry is dead; it has been dead since the last 5 years. It cannot be resuscitated with N70 billion, those pushing for the resuscitation are only after… Read More »
Oz recently tagged me on Why I Blog About Africa. Because I am African I blog about Africa because I am African, because I have lived in Africa most of my life, because most of my family live in Africa, and because there is no other place that has contributed to my formation as much… Read More »
This is on two different levels. One: There is an attack going on in Mumbai, and the exact thing that the attackers want – full coverage, and even commentary that reminds one of a football match – was given to them. See what my good friend Kiran (an Indian who was in India during the… Read More »
See this presentation on CNN. When we think of the Niger-Delta region and the movements we should remember that the region is one of the most environmentally degraded areas in the world, that this degradation happened in the recent past, and that it is still ongoing. We should not lose sight of that when we… Read More »
I just read Jonathan Elendu’s brief summary of what happened to him. It is so sad that this can go on in Nigeria. It is really, really, very sad. I insist, like I did in the previous post I wrote on the topic, that the federal government of Nigeria needs to tell us what transpired.… Read More »
I am sort of a late-comer to the news about the arrest of Mr. Jonathan Elendu of Elendu Reports. This is a sad development indeed, especially as it comes when we are still trying to reconcile our image of a benevolent Yardy with the incedents that surrounded the closure of Channels TV. This latest development… Read More »
After 10 months in West Africa (Nigeria, Bénin, Togo), I am back in Germany. I did not have much time for blogging during the 10 months cos I was moving around a lot, cos I did not have very reliable internet connection, and cos my work did not allow me to spend so much time… Read More »