· September, 2005

Stories about Nigeria from September, 2005

Nigeria: Can this be democracy?

Chippla comments on parliamentary democracy, Nigerian style: “This crisis of Nigerian society lies in the fact that its ruling class sees no reason why it shouldn't live like the ruling...

29 September 2005

Nigeria: Succession struggles

Chippla posts a long commentary wondering who will succeed Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, and notes the recent flight of current Vice-President Atiku Abubasar to a ruling PDP party stronghold to...

27 September 2005

Nigeria: Overpriced taxis

Chippla reports on the emergence of another new street item in the Nigerian capital of Abuja: smart new taxis which are bookable by phone–but unaffordable for the average resident of...

26 September 2005

Nigeria: Sex or prayer?

trae_z at Trae Days blogs about losing his religion, though not his sense of God, and his scepticism about deifying human beings, though not about miracles.

23 September 2005

Nigeria: Class war

A silent war is being waged, writes Chippla, between the Nigerian working classes who sit and listen to fire and brimstone sermons in the country's many houses of worship, and...

20 September 2005

Nigerian Suya!

A mala is seen here seated in front of his Suya Stand Suya (pronounced Su-hu-ya) That's the name of a piece of meat roasted on an open heat basin, with...

20 September 2005

Nigeria: The bus stops here

Chippla gets ready to say farewell to the time-honored, happy-g0-lucky methods of bus-boarding in Abuja, with the advent of posh new bus-stops in the city.

19 September 2005

Nigeria: Call for Taylor to face tribunal

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have called on the Nigerian government to show its commitment to justice by handing over former Liberian President Charles Taylor to the Special Court...

14 September 2005

Nigeria: A question of ethnicity

Chippla blogs about a decision by the Nigerian government to remove questions relating to ethnicity and religion from questionnaires in the forthcoming census.

9 September 2005

Nigeria: Spam scenario

Irregular Webcomic sets the imaginary scene for all those Nigerian spam e-mails that have plagued inboxes over the last few years.

9 September 2005

Nigerian Blogging Scene

As the world is getting along well with blogging,the face of blogging in Nigeria is changing surely but slowly. As at the time of writing this piece there are not much (home based) Nigerians blogging especially when looked at in relationship to the number of people using the Internet in the country.

5 September 2005