The figures are staggering when one reviews the profile of President Goodluck Jonathan on Facebook after a year, over half a million likes and comments, over 300 statuses and a keen eye on Nigerian issues as he engages the social media public.

Taking the hatchet to the hack Very little upsets me but what cannot be countenanced is mediocrity masquerading as professionalism where clichés are allowed to get in the way of expected originality and the package does not contain what it says on the box. In that sense you realise you have been scammed, swindled, defrauded and outwitted by a hoodlum, [...]

Cross-posted here. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a 23 year old man from a comfortable home in Northern Nigeria who attends a university in the United Kingdom. He’s now notorious for trying to denotate an explosive device on a plane. I have tried not to talk about him before now, but who am I kidding? It’s in the news on every [...]