Stories about Nigeria from October, 2007
Nigeria: Home-made helicopter in Kano
Afrigadget on the Nigeria's home-made helicopter: “Yahoo! News carries a story from October 21st about Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi of the Kano Plains of Nigeria who has built a working helicopter over the last 8 months using scrap aluminum and parts from a Honda Civic, an old Toyota and from the...
Nigeria: Nigeria's broken moral barometer
Grandiose Parlor argues that Nigeria's moral barometer is broken:”There is ample evidence that the moral and ethical threshold for Nigeria’s political appointees and elected officials is just few notches above zero, if not an outright zero.”
Blog Action Day: Voices out of Africa and the Diaspora
Today many bloggers around the world united to write about one single theme, the environment. The blogs from Africa and Diaspora that participated did so with much variety in style and content. What follows are links and tidbits from Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and other global citizens. Kenya Afrigadget posts...
Nigeria: Demystifying Lagos
My Pen and My Paper demystifies Lagos: “Very briefly, who is an okada man.: 1) The okada man is a regular Nigerian male, jobless, who seeks to make a living by riding a motorcycle and offering short-distance transportation services to people.”
Nigeria: an illegitimate government
Adeola calls the Nigerian governmet “a disastrous illegitimate government”: How can the Attorney General of Nigeria write a letter to the British Police or Judiciary to let go of one of the several thieves that have looted our treasury. Is that not madness? How can such a nonentity be the...
Zimbabwe: What is 200,000 Zimbabwean dollars?
Edward Popoola asks, “how much is $200,000 worth?”: The same amount in Zimbabwe (the Zimbabwean dollars) is nothing but a worthless, piece of paper that amounts to like a 100 Nigerian Naira. Well, maybe not so worthless, it would get you a drop of water in a country plagued by...
Nigeria: Happy Independence
Naija to the Core celebrates Nigeria's Independence Day: “Hip Hip Hip, Hooray! – should have been the title of this post lol. So how are you all feeling? Was anyone keen enough to wear green and white to work? And what did those of you do in Nig for the...
Nigeria: Nigeria's Speak Up Campaign
While not celebrating Nigeria's 47th anniversary, Sokari writes about Nigeria's Speak Up Campaign: Today is Nigeria’s 47th anniversary but I am not celebrating – see below! Omodudu IS celebrating and as a member of the newly formed Nigerian Lighthouse he asked all Nigerian bloggers to write a letter to Nigeria...
Is there a future for e-commerce in Africa?
The past week turned out to one that came with an interesting debate online about the prospects of e-commerce in Africa. Are there any prospects for e-commerce on the African continent?