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Nigeria: Free Jonathan Elendu Now!
Friday, 31 October 2008 9:21 A GMT+01
Jonathan Elendu has been released but he is only a free man when he is free from harassment, receives all his property intact, if not charged, gets an unreserved apology and possible compensation.
Free Jonathan Elendu Now!
Nigeria: Shamed back into hosting the Under-17 World Cup
Thursday, 30 October 2008 1:18 P GMT+01
The government has now decided to host the Under-17 World Cup but it does not make it any less an appaling disgrace that we pulled out of hosting it last week.
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Nigeria: Jonathan Elendu Released
Thursday, 30 October 2008 1:13 P GMT+01
Jonathan Elendu has been released from custody and is undergoing medical treatment.
A road runs through it
Monday, 27 October 2008 11:39 A GMT+01
A dual-carriage way would run through my village, cutting it in half but there is no safety in this construction, there would be no pedestrian bridges - I worry.
Nigeria: Jonathan Elendu - Confusing Western naïveté for great danger
Monday, 27 October 2008 6:45 A GMT+01
The arrest of American-resident Jonathan Elendu of Elendu Reports on his family visit to Nigeria shows how we naively think our liberal Western ideas and values protect us from menace in back home.
Nigeria: No money to host the Under-17 World Cup 2009
Friday, 24 October 2008 10:17 A GMT+01
As winners of the Under-17 World Cup in 2007 we were to host the turnament in November 2009 but the government has said it cannot find $30 million of funding to host the event so we are going to shirk our responsibilities.
Discretion still matters
Wednesday, 22 October 2008 9:39 P GMT+01
A matter of indiscretion might well be the undoing of George Osborne the UK Shadow Chancellor, the other issues are peripheral to the fact that gentlemen are expected to be gentlemen else they are good for the dogs.
Rising from the Ashes of the Bushes
Tuesday, 21 October 2008 3:55 P GMT+01
If we are to rise from the ashes of the Bushes in terms of the state than America and the world is today, we cannot send the Republican bull to clean up the china closet of chaos they have formented.
Preventing bicycle rage
Monday, 20 October 2008 11:24 A GMT+01
Something about bicycles and the attitudes of other road users leaves ready to explode in rage and uncontrolled anger.
Credit crunch: Lazarus comes forth
Tuesday, 14 October 2008 1:37 P GMT+01
The man was dead, the ladies wept, he was entombed till the man came and had the tomb opened can called out the dead man - a cash injection of over a trillion Euros has brought the markets back to life.
Credit crunch: No man is an island ... it tolls for thee
Sunday, 12 October 2008 2:39 P GMT+01
The global credit crises is beyond asking who it affects, it affects us all.
Category: Commentary General
Nigeria: A Literary source of Nobel Prize impressions
Friday, 10 October 2008 10:15 A GMT+01
Nigeria has given birth to two Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates one by reason of birth and the other by youthful inspiration. Once Nigeria gets a hold of you and you can write - you can write great things.
Luc Montagnier takes the Nobel Prize for isolating HIV
Monday, 6 October 2008 4:14 P GMT+01
Luc Montagnier can laugh all he wants as he is recognised with a Nobel Prize for the isolation of HIV.
Cancelling Tech-Ed, a considered cut-back
Monday, 6 October 2008 10:13 A GMT+01
Even in the smallest way, I am beginning to see the effects of the financial crises with street lights going off early, banks acquired, conferences cancelled and bins not emptied.
There is hope but there would be changes too.
Nigeria: Our claims to responsible government at independence 48
Wednesday, 1 October 2008 8:14 A GMT+01
At 48, there is reason to wonder if Nigeria's claims to responsible government in 1960 are still claims we can prove without dispute in 2008.
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