Issues is a new NT series in which academics and policy experts write on their areas of expertise. If you would like to contribute to the series send an email to Olumide (his email address is on the page under the link).  The columnist this week is medical doctor and health policy analyst Seye Abimbola. The primary health care (PHC) facility is often [...]

Issues is a new NT series in which academics and policy experts write on their areas of expertise. If you would like to contribute to the series send an email to Olumide (his email address is on the page under the link).  The columnist this week is public policy analyst Abimbola Agboluaje. I was delighted when I discovered that President Goodluck [...]

Issues is a new NT series in which academics and policy experts write on their areas of expertise. If you would like to contribute to the series send an email to Olumide (his email address is on the page under the link).  The columnists this week are sociologist Ebenezer Obadare and cultural theorist Akin Adesokan Video footage of Bishop David Oyedepo, [...]

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 comprehensive Nigerian opinion, analysis and commentary website/groupblog. We are very thankful to Anna Erben, who designed the new NigeriansTalk logo. The whole [...]

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 Delta. Halliburton’s top official in Nigeria has been summoned and 10 of its Nigerian and expat staff detained for questioning [...]

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 things that an outsider notices stares you in the face but you are no longer able to see them. This [...]

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 Commerce and Industry. One of the major issues they discussed was the possibility of India helping Nigeria to revitalise its [...]

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 opinion, does not leave any gap that needs to be filled by any fair and balanced reporting. It is a [...]

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 tragic loss of lives in Jos, and extend our sympathies to the bereaved and injured. We urge all parties to [...]