Weekly Ten: A Big Fat Nigerian Wedding
ONE: While CNN celebrates opulent, colourful and wealthy weddings in Lagos State, over in Kano State, a hundred couples were married in local government sponsored mass ceremony aimed at targeted[…]
Author: Cosmic Yoruba
Weekly Ten: Radio Biafra
ONE: A radio station proclaiming itself to be representing the interests of the Republic of Biafra has started airing broadcasts. Radio Biafra first hit airwaves in the course of the[…]
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Weekly Ten: The trials of reporting
ONE: Last week Ahmad Salkida, a reporter who works with several newspapers in Maiduguri, wrote an expose on his personal experience reporting Boko Haram’s terrorists activities aided by the help[…]
Weekly Ten: Mind Boggling Numbers
ONE: James Ibori, former governor of Delta State has been convicted by the Southwark Crown Court in the UK on corruption charges. Ibori has been jailed for 13 years for[…]
Weekly Ten: Indigenous Technology
ONE: More analysis on Boko Haram that examines foreign influences on the group and the “Balkanisation” of Nigeria and the wider Sahel region. TWO: The Police Command in Borno state[…]
Weekly Ten: 1050 Political Aides
ONE: As Boko Haram’s rampage continues more and more analytical essays devoted to examining the group and it’s impact on Nigerian society are popping up. This most recent one claims[…]
Weekly Ten: Technological Highs and Lows
ONE: President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to use the experience of the Asian Tigers (i.e Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan) to help Nigeria transform into a major economy[…]
Weekly Ten: Lagos is a Big City
ONE: Lagos and Ibadan have been listed among 10 leading African cities to watch for investment inflow in a report containing research carried out by Frontier Strategy Group, an international[…]
Weekly Ten: “Their Faces Were Swollen”
ONE: Last week, the British government made attempts to justify the botched attempt at rescuing a British and an Italian that were kept in Nigeria as hostages. While Philip Hammond[…]
Weekly Ten: A Row Between Two Countries
ONE: On March 3, Arik Air began reinstating flights between Lagos and Johannesburg after earlier suspending flights between the two cities due to a dispute with South African health[…]