Monthly Archives: May 2009

War against the people — truths and untruths

When I set out to write a review of this weeks Niger­ian blogs I had it in my mind that I would write on the inva­sion and bomb­ing of towns and vil­lages in Warri region of the Niger Delta. To be frank I expected to read Nige­ri­ans out­raged by this attack on their fel­low cit­i­zens

Fiction! Fiction!!Fiction!!!

I love fic­tion. I love to get lost in a world that is not mine. A world of  fan­tasy and imag­i­na­tion, a world where any­thing and every­thing can hap­pen. For­tu­nately for me, I come from a land of great story tellers. We love to tell sto­ries in Nige­ria.  Grow­ing up, one could never get straight

EKITI ELECTIONS: A REVIEW

It appears the entire world paid close atten­tion to the recent Ekiti elec­tions. News out­lets from the BBC, to the Finan­cial Times and Reuters, to papers across the world reported on the elec­toral ten­sion and even­tual con­fu­sion and vio­lence which marred the process. While these news orga­ni­za­tions and many of their read­ers could observe these

Let’s Talk about Web Baby!! – Naija Emerges

What do I want to dis­cuss on the Blogeria-sphere this week? Let’s talk about Nige­ria as an emer­gent mar­ket for web. To say it is ripe is an under­state­ment and to my immense plea­sure Nige­ri­ans them­selves are respond­ing and gen­er­at­ing their own grass roots prod­ucts and web-services. I read blogs across a lot of top­ics and I’m increas­ingly inspired by the blogs that feed my desire to see the Naija geek brigade devel­op­ing and push­ing for­ward prod­ucts not just for Nige­ria but for the world.