Stories about Nigeria from September, 2005
Nigeria: Variation on a theme of scam
Via lustig at del.icio.us, a hoax warning about an old Nigerian scam wrapped up in a Palestinian headscarf.
Nigeria: Can this be democracy?
Chippla comments on parliamentary democracy, Nigerian style: “This crisis of Nigerian society lies in the fact that its ruling class sees no reason why it shouldn't live like the ruling class anywhere else in the world. The truth however is that Nigeria is not like ‘anywhere else in the world’...
Equatorial Guinea/Nigeria: Disappearances, torture
Amnesty International is concerned about allegations of torture and the unfair trial of about 70 people charged with offences related to an alleged coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea on 8 October 2004. The organization is also concerned that three of those convicted in absentia risk “disappearing” or being subjected to...
Nigeria: Succession struggles
Chippla posts a long commentary wondering who will succeed Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, and notes the recent flight of current Vice-President Atiku Abubasar to a ruling PDP party stronghold to register as a member.
Nigeria: Overpriced taxis
Chippla reports on the emergence of another new street item in the Nigerian capital of Abuja: smart new taxis which are bookable by phone–but unaffordable for the average resident of the city.
Nigeria: Sex or prayer?
trae_z at Trae Days blogs about losing his religion, though not his sense of God, and his scepticism about deifying human beings, though not about miracles.
Nigeria: Class war
A silent war is being waged, writes Chippla, between the Nigerian working classes who sit and listen to fire and brimstone sermons in the country's many houses of worship, and the ruling class who live it up overseas only to be arrested for money-laundering.
Nigerian Suya!
A mala is seen here seated in front of his Suya Stand Suya (pronounced Su-hu-ya) That's the name of a piece of meat roasted on an open heat basin, with Oil, onions and salt. Suya is a popular food among the rich and the Nigerian middle class. Suya is usually...
Nigeria: The bus stops here
Chippla gets ready to say farewell to the time-honored, happy-g0-lucky methods of bus-boarding in Abuja, with the advent of posh new bus-stops in the city.
Nigeria: Call for Taylor to face tribunal
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have called on the Nigerian government to show its commitment to justice by handing over former Liberian President Charles Taylor to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which has indicted him for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Nigeria: A question of ethnicity
Chippla blogs about a decision by the Nigerian government to remove questions relating to ethnicity and religion from questionnaires in the forthcoming census.
Nigeria: Spam scenario
Irregular Webcomic sets the imaginary scene for all those Nigerian spam e-mails that have plagued inboxes over the last few years.
Nigerian Blogging Scene
As the world is getting along well with blogging,the face of blogging in Nigeria is changing surely but slowly. As at the time of writing this piece there are not much (home based) Nigerians blogging especially when looked at in relationship to the number of people using the Internet in the country.
