Monthly Archives: October 2009

Lawmakers deliberate on the completely absurd

Law­mak­ers appeal to the sense of patri­o­tism of armed rob­bers to cease­fire dur­ing the Under-17 World Cup competition.

Mish Mash

The NigeriansTalk.org Weekly Linked List #4 China and Shell and Naija.….……hmmm Rice in Akwa Ibom.….….WIN! Wel­come o.….….……u do well NLNG no be only una dey Read this links­color = “000000”; high­lights­color = “888888”; back­ground­color = “FFFFFF”; chan­nel = “none”;

Amputations, Nollywood and Other Images

Nige­ria has always been a coun­try of fan­ta­sized great­ness since the col­lapse of the first repub­lic. But the rebrand­ing antics of the min­is­ter of infor­ma­tion have added a ris­i­ble dimen­sion to the fan­tasy ride. This is not because the brand­ing project is not nec­es­sary or even desir­able, but because the project is geared towards a

Prize Giving — Naija Style, and others

The NigeriansTalk.org Weekly Linked List #3 And the win­ner is .….….…nobody They finally came to their senses.….….….pass­port renewed! ASUU and the FG kiss and make up.….….…till next time Puff puff.….…..pass Police na your friend.….…..indeed, R.I.P Ndal­ima Usman OPEC made a funny.….….….….yup they really care Only in Naija.…..tut tut tut links­color = “000000”; high­lights­color = “888888”; back­ground­color =

Grace Ushang’s Assault and Death Remain Inexcusable

Late last month, National Youth Ser­vice cor­per, Grace Ushang was bru­tally raped and mur­dered while on her tour of duty in Maid­uguri.  Appar­ently, she was met­ted out this sen­tence for wear­ing  trousers.  Yes, the same khaki trousers that have been part and par­cel of the NYSC uni­form since God-knows-when. For the past few weeks, sev­eral

In the Media

Nige­ri­ansTalk recently received rave reviews from True Love West Africa (TLWA).  The “ver­dict” regard­ing NigeriansTalk.org is that we can be likened to a “blogger’s par­adise”  — a web­site which serves as an up-to-date resource for Niger­ian blog­gers every­where. The arti­cle, writ­ten by a recent NT.org con­trib­u­tor, Isabella Akin­s­eye, can be found in the lat­est edi­tion

Women As BreadWinners — An Issue?

I remem­ber get­ting to work extremely early  a cou­ple of months ago and read­ing an arti­cle from a very infu­ri­ated wife that her hus­band wasn’t allow­ing her to take care of respon­si­bil­i­ties in their home.  Now, I am sure many of you are won­der­ing what I am on about now.  Let me start first by

Meet Our Regular Contributors: Pamela Stitch

I really do not know why this occurs but when­ever I am told to intro­duce myself — my palms get sweaty, I stop breath­ing and then I find myself stam­mer­ing.  Maybe it is that innate shy­ness that I can’t seem to get away from.  Even though some will say that it is that shy­ness that

David Morley (1923–2009) and WGH Ilesha

There are many rea­sons for me to blog about David Mor­ley (1923–2009), who per­haps more than any other west­ern sci­en­tist has done more towards the devel­op­ment of pae­di­atrics and child health in Nige­ria, Africa and pos­si­bly the whole devel­op­ing world. His work started at the hos­pi­tal where I was born many years after he worked

Cocoa, fish and Eco…Vmo…Cel…err…Zain

The NigeriansTalk.org Weekly Linked List #2 Oil is like so played out, agri­cul­ture is back baby. So I’m a bit delu­sional, but on a seri­ous note, Nige­ria needs to start pay­ing more atten­tion to her agri­cul­tural sec­tor. Cocoa is a huge part of that sec­tor, as it stands we are cur­rently the fourth largest pro­ducer of