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Latest tagged entries for 'NIGERIA'
Nigeria: Why Candidates Fail Our Examinations - WAEC
Saturday, 18 April 2009 10:41 A GMT+01
WAEC lists why candidates fail their examinations, I think they are unto something very true.
Nigeria: Obasanjo's Hard Talk
Friday, 20 March 2009 7:58 P GMT+01
The ex-president of Nigeria - Olusegun Obasanjo was on Hard Talk and failed to answer the real questions.
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Guinea: African leaders are indeed mortal
Tuesday, 23 December 2008 4:28 P GMT+01
The death of President Lansana Conté of Guinea brings us back to an analysis of the problems of leadership in Africa.
Nigeria: Ribadu and kids get bundled out of NIPSS graduation
Sunday, 23 November 2008 10:33 A GMT+01
The erstwhile EFCC chairman gets bundled out of the NIPSS graduation cermony after the government fails by all other means to stop his graduation. His wife, 6 children and his guests all get pulled out of the event too.
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.
Grand Inga Project: Another White Elephant for Black Africa
Monday, 28 April 2008 7:37 P GMT+01
The Grand Inga Project that involves building that largest hydro-electric dam in the world in DR Congo is sounding like exciting news but it has nothing for Africans in general.
It should be aborted forthwith.
The entity is Nigeria, the identity is Nigerian
Sunday, 20 April 2008 5:29 P GMT+01
Nigeria would continue to be a single entity from which we all derive the identity of being Nigerian - it is time for us to accept that fact and begin to use it for nation-building.
Zimbabwe: Mugabe is a coward
Sunday, 13 April 2008 4:23 P GMT+01
Robert Mugabe is coward, he cannot bear to see he has lost and he cannot accept the fact that he has lost - he is afraid of the truth of democracy in Zimbabwe and he must not be allowed to change the truth.
Nigeria: Divorce mentions adulterous incest
Tuesday, 15 January 2008 4:12 P GMT+01
The son of the ex-President is sending social shock waves through the country by attesting that both his father and father-in-law have been in adulterous liaisons with his wife.
He thinks his kids are theirs.
UN International Anti-Corruption Day - My take
Saturday, 8 December 2007 10:59 P GMT+01
I express a few views on the celebration of the United Nations International Anti-Corruption Day 2007 - the fight would be a very difficult one.
Ghana makes Nigeria a truly failed state
Tuesday, 19 June 2007 8:07 P GMT+01
The list of Failed States in 2007 leaves Nigeria rising up the ranks of failure and concern about how others might be doing a lot better like Ghana.
Sustaining bad reports from Africa
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 9:45 P GMT+01
Zimbabwe is given the chairmanship of a UN commission on sustainable development - surely, this is a joke.
Is Nigeria a model for Africa?
Friday, 4 May 2007 3:05 P GMT+01
A number of articles in the Economist about the Nigerian elections are painting us as a country rapidly losing respect, influence and clout - a model we are not.
The Cult of the Burnt Fornicator II - Judgment Day
Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:59 P GMT+01
The leader of the Christian Praying Assembly where sex sinners get doused with petrol and set alight in Nigeria is to hang. Would this be a lesson to those charlatans who seek to deceive?
Somehow, strange sexualities excite Africans
Friday, 8 September 2006 8:05 P GMT+01
They publish names, accuse people in high places, revile those caught in the act and the elders on the village might just ignore all this because it is just none of their business.
Making an ass of a South African policeman
Saturday, 26 August 2006 1:53 P GMT+01
The minister in charge of safety and security in South Africa suggests that the police should ride donkeys to crime scenes.
To London to see the Queen
Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:02 P GMT+01
A 6-night stay in London was OK, but not all that exciting.
Was that the Real Story?
Tuesday, 15 August 2006 12:56 P GMT+01
The Real Story episode about second-hand computers and identity theft might have informed but failed to really educate on the need to protect ones privacy. Apart from witnessing the assault of an already pliant suspect.
Aspirant elimination depicts murderous democracy
Tuesday, 15 August 2006 11:00 A GMT+01
Another ruling party aspirant killing and a riot to clean things up as we prepare for the 2007 Elections in Nigeria. What gives?
A dead man dishonoured
Sunday, 13 August 2006 10:08 A GMT+01
The burial of Funsho Williams was not without event from the sermons given to the way his supporters allowed their egos to get in the way of letting their leader lie in state.
11-year old Nigerian boy abandoned in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Thursday, 27 July 2006 5:04 P GMT+01
Please view the photograph and if the young boy is known, help in bringing him back in contact with his loved ones.
Explaining a stolen lunchbox
Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:59 A GMT+01
A hapless stranger gets mobbed and killed because some other stranger believes that his manhood has been stolen. This a part of reality in some parts of Nigeria. Unbelievable but true.
The people are high on opium - V
Friday, 24 February 2006 10:59 P GMT+01
I am saddened to see that the Mohammed cartoon saga is still costing lives around the world. We now need to examine the conseqences of exercising the freedom of expression. It is time also for Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten to take some responsibility.
Batter yourself not your wife
Tuesday, 21 February 2006 10:29 A GMT+01
The Vagina Monologues would hopefully be playing in Nigeria in March. It has set blogs alight with issues as diverse as wife battering, rape and genital mutilation. I just address wife battering here.
I wear lipstick
Monday, 28 November 2005 12:52 A GMT+01
How does one make up a story or even make up ones mind when some stories are too good to be true like a Nigerian governor who jumps bail in Britain disguised as a fat geisha?
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