As you probably have noticed, NigeriansTalk has been going through some changes lately. First of all there is the new design, which better reflects the nature of the outfit that NigeriansTalk has become over the last few months, namely a [...]
From Guardian: Nigeria‘s anti-corruption police said today that they will charge former US vice-president Dick Cheney over a $180m bribery case involving energy firm Halliburton.The announcement follows a probe into the construction of a liquefied natural gas plant in the conflict-ridden Niger [...]
There is a thing about being so close to something that one does not see it anymore. Anthropologists normally refer to it as going native. You have gone native when you no longer see the obvious things anymore, when the [...]
This article was originally written for www.tradeinvestnigeria.com. In May, an Indian trade mission, led by Mr. Ravi Bangar, the deputy permanent representative of India to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), paid a visit to Mr. Jubril Martins-Kuye, Nigeria’s Minister for [...]
Some Nigerians are complaining about the BBC documentary Welcome to Lagos because, they say, it is not balanced. I have not seen the second in the series so I can’t really say much about that. The first, though, in my [...]
See here for more. In all, the acting president was impressive.
Via Jide Salu. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton London, United Kingdom January 28, 2010 We express our deep regret at the recent violence and [...]
In the BusinessDay of January 12, 2010 December 25, 2009: A Nigerian-born male, with secondary education in Togo and university education in London, said to have been radicalized during his university days in London, and to have been further radicalized [...]
I just read from the Financial Times, through the PSD blog, that the Nigerian government is considering giving part of the proceeds of oil exploration to indigenes of the Niger Delta region. The amount is about $20 a year. According [...]
Former American ambassador to Nigeria, Princeton Lyman, writing on today’s (ir)relevance of Nigeria. If Nigeria fails? I have a long connection to Nigeria. Not only was I ambassador there, I have travelled to and from Nigeria for a number of [...]
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