Monthly Archives: September 2009

NIGERIA WE HAIL THEE

…. joy, sad­ness, regret, long­ing, love, pain, laugh­ter, tears…that’s what Nige­ria does to you… like an exas­per­at­ing yet exquis­ite lover, it is capa­ble of mak­ing you feel these emotions.

Around the Blogs and Back

The NigeriansTalk.org Weekly Linked List #1 The fol­low­ing are some inter­est­ing sto­ries we have found this week from the Niger­ian blo­gos­phere.  We plan on fea­tur­ing such links every Thurs­day. Chxta gives a blow-by-blow run­down of Anam­bra guber­na­to­r­ial pol­i­tics from 1999 onwards. Bel­laNaija reveals exclu­sive pho­tos from Nol­ly­wood heavyweight-turned-evangelist Liz Benson’s wed­ding At the Bom­bas­tic Ele­ment blog,

Bloggers and Rebranders Respond to District 9

Nneoma, of Pyoo Wata, reviews the reac­tions of Niger­ian blog­gers to the recent sci-fi fim, Dis­trict 9, and also cau­tions against the use of the rebrand­ing mantra for the pur­poses of cen­sor­ship. Ever since the Dora Akun­y­ili was charged with the task of clean­ing up the national image, the nation, includ­ing its blog­gers, has been

Nigerian Banking Crisis Blog Review

A review by Arin Since the break­ing news on what has been dubbed ‘The Fri­day Bank Mas­sacre’ by one Niger­ian news­pa­per, many Nige­ri­ans and friends of Nige­ria have, judg­ing by the num­ber of arti­cle com­ments and the thread lengths on dis­cus­sion forums, devoured every piece of avail­able infor­ma­tion on the even as at now still