· May, 2006

Stories about Nigeria from May, 2006

Nigeria: Constitutional Amendment

  16 May 2006

Chippla proivdes some essential background and explanations on the Nigerian proposed constitutional amendment to enable Obasanjo to run for a third term.

Nigeria: Literature

  16 May 2006

Molara Wood publishes an interview with Nigerian author, Sefi Atta who wrote “Everything Good Will Come”.

Nigeria: Constitutional debate

  12 May 2006

Musings of a Naijaman comments on the continued debate or rather “(or-stand-up-and-be-counted process) that is taking place in Nigeria on the constitution. His villain of the day is Abdul Oroh who has gone from human rights activists to apologist for extending Obasanjo's tenure.

Black Britian: mental illness

  12 May 2006

Soul on Ice discusses mental illness amongst Britains black population. Africans and African Caribbean have the highest incidence of mental illness despite their relatively low numbers in the wider population

Nigeria: African Names

  12 May 2006

Chippla has a great post on the use of African names and points out the influence from the colonial period on names used by Nigerians and the naming of Nigerian places with European names.

Nigeria: Media censorship

  11 May 2006

Silent Storms in an Ocean of One comments on the Nigerian government's revoking of AIT's TV licence..”its live coverage of the ongoing senatorial (or should i say in-sane-torial) debate over the constitutional amendments that will allow obasanjo serve a third term in office.”

This Week's Synopsis of West African Weblogs

  11 May 2006

Nigeria Political Impasse in Nigeria– Yebo Gogo Fontaine at Yebo Gogo, continues the discussion on the political impasse in Nigeria as a result of an attempt to extend the tenure of the current president, Mr. Obasanjo, whose tenure expires in 2007. “Rumors have been swirling the past few weeks that...

Nigeria: Constitutional amendment

  10 May 2006

Adefunke on Adefunke comments on the Nigerian consitutional amendment and asks if there is a copy available online for citizens to read and asks “My concerns are about the very bad precedent this will set, a sitting administration amending the constitution without following due process. What will stop some future...

Nigeria: Solar power

  10 May 2006

Afromusing reports that Nigeria is to start a N10 million (about $78,00) solar power project that will serve 5000 people – a huge saving on traditional power supply.

Nigeria: Third term

  10 May 2006

CyBlug Nigeria publishes an open letter to Obasanjo by Rev. Fr. George Ehusani, Secretary General, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria calling for the President to stop the third term movement immediately.

African Music #8

  9 May 2006

I recently had a discussion with a friend about fair trade and it threw up some deep questions about African music. Who really owns the rights to the recordings? Who brokers what? How connected is the artist to his/her audience market? Is the music industry inherently complex? Is this solely...

Nigeria: Nail boys in Jos

  8 May 2006

Kids Doc in Jos gets hit by local “nail boys” or “revenue boys” – they stop your car place a board with nails on the road in front and demand money…Doctors get discounts so instead of paying N10,000 you only pay N2,500 about £15

Nigeria: Julias Berger unethical drugs

  8 May 2006

Grandiose Parlor reports that one of Nigeria's largest foreign businesses, Julias Berger has been ” nailed for unethical ‘pharmaceutical practices and discriminatory administration of drugs’ by the Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) late last month. The regulatory agency has since shut down all four...

Voices of African Women

  8 May 2006

Afromusing continues her excellent reports on solar power in Africa. She has opened up her blog to take questions on alternative energy in Africa and here she answers a question from Mshairi on when will the high costs of installing solar panels come down. Yes, the time is drawing near...

African Diaspora: Hard times for Africans in France and Belgium

Several francophone blogs have tackled African immigrants’ latest tribulations in France and Belgium. Choosing Immigrants Le Pangolin criticizes French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy’s latest round of immigration policies. The blogger sees Sarkozy’s approach as a diversion from the real social issues raised by protestors of the CPE [Youth Employment Law]....

Africa Diaspora: UK elections

  5 May 2006

A number of Diaspora blogs have commented on the recent local elections in the UK and Labour's poor showing. Aba Boy, Ijebuman and Musings of a Naijaman

Nigeria: Third term politics

  5 May 2006

Chippla continues his commentary opposing Obasanjo running for a third term. He is particuarly concerned that opposition to the “third term” is being silenced by the government and supporters of Obasanjo.

Nigeria: open source

  4 May 2006

Timbuktu Chronicles points to the Wazobia open source project that was developed by Nigerians, Segun Oni and Bolaji Onibudo. “The OS is accessible in Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo and English, to make Nigerians feel more at home in their computing environment…”

Nigeria: power of oil

Nigeria:long & difficult history; corruption, greed & murder of the innocents! writes on the power of oil and the country Nigeria could have been and uses the shape of the Benue and Niger River which with their intersection makes a Y shape. “Foreign capital was rolling in at close to...