First some cases I had been thinking about writing about this for a while, but due to work I have not had the time to do it, until now, that is. I got to Nigeria to learn that a friend who got married and whose wife gave birth while I was away was a wife… Read More »
… that Nigeria supplies 25% of the oil consumption of the USA?
I said two posts ago that I am now working in Cotonou. One of my colleagues who once lived in America, and who goes to Nigeria very often, told me today that Nigerians are just like Americans. Nigerians think that the whole world hates them, that other Africans are jealous of them, and that no… Read More »
We woke up this morning to the news that Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, the Chairman of the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, is to go on a course at the Nigerian Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies for a year. Actually, it was announced yesterday by Inspector General Mike Okiro yesterday, but I didn’t hear… Read More »
After a successful conference in Copenhagen, I got on a flight to Lagos, through Paris. The flight went pretty well, and we got to Lagos late in the evening. I had been out of Nigeria for a little over a while, and what struck me was the way things had not changed. I lived in… Read More »
A documentary on the way mining companies are taxed in Zambia makes me wonder about the details of the deal between Nigeria and the oil companies.
Today, I read a report that analysed the danger of the current rise in the price of oil for oil rich countries.
November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian writer, environmental activist and president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), was put to death by the Nigerian government. Hanged along with him were eight other activists. They were condemned to death after being convicted by a military tribunal of four counts of… Read More »