Stories about Nigeria from August, 2008
Nigeria: Celebrating Nigeria's first gold
Jeremy celebrates Nigeria's first gold and asks, “Just think how well Nigeria would do if sport was taken seriously in the motherland.”
Nigerian prostitute arrested in Italy
Le blog de [moi] posts a disturbing photograph of a Nigerian prostitute, arrested during a recent raid in Italy, laying half-naked on the floor of a jail cell, covered in dust.
Nigeria: Contribute to Hausa projects
useibert calls on Hausa speakers to contribute to Hausa projects on the Internet.
Nigeria: Nigerian Stock Exchange results
Ikechukwu Emelike writes about the recently released results from the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
Trinidad & Tobago, Nigeria: Interconnectedness
Andre Bagoo reviews the art of Nigerian Ugochukwu Bright Eke – a winner of the Commonwealth Foundation's Arts and Craft Award, who has chosen to use his grant to work in Trinidad: “Water, skin, shelter and the sea all come together to reveal the interconnectedness between us and the environment.”
Nigeria: Critiquing branding and advertising
Jeremy critiques advertising, design and branding in Nigeria arguing that they are “extremely low in quality, with no demonstrable creativity at work.”
Nigeria: E-Commerce
Jeremy discusses e-commence development in Nigeria pointing out that it is painfully slow because of the lack of epayment infrastructure.
African MSM & Sex Workers Voice Concerns and Hopes at AIDS 2008
The AIDS 2008 conference (IAC) in Mexico City drew to a close on August, 8th, 2008. The theme of the conference was “universal action now” and judging by the heavy international attendance, the focus on marginalized communities and the daily newsletter aptly called “Global Voice”, it delivered on the promise....
Nigeria: ChallengeIT Camp 2008
Oro blogs about ChallengeIT Camp 2008 in Nigeria. ChallengeIT is an information technology camp for senior secondary school students and post secondary students who are not above eighteen years old.
Nigeria: Forex Trading
NaijaEcash writes about Forex Trading in Nigeria asking, “Who makes the money?“