Jonathan Runs Out of Goodluck
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In the end, nothing could save President #Goodluck_Jonathan. Neither the belated effort, using foreign troops and mercenaries, to roll back Boko Haram’s military gains. Nor the last minute ‘cash.....
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Nigeria: What is to be done?
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This Saturday, March 28, Nigerians vote again. What is at stake? And what happens after the #elections? We brought together a group of scholars to explore some of these issues–an.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Goodluck_Jonathan #Muhammadu_Buhari #Nigeria:_What_is_to_be_done? #POLITICS
Postponed For Now: Nigerians to choose between General Buhari’s populist promises and President Jonathan’s status quo
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Nigeria’s #elections, originally scheduled for Valentine’s Day, have now been postponed, for six weeks. One thing is certain though: the two leading candidates are neck and neck according to an.....
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#Nigeria’s Catch 22: American style democracy will only throw up more more #GEJ’s
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There are so many problems in Nigeria, true. But it bears reiterating that we’ve not even correctly identified the biggest one of them… Our biggest problem is not the fact that we are an artificial country. Asides Japan and Somalia, I can’t think of many other “real” country. Our biggest problem is not Islam. Brunei, […]
#bringbackourgirls : What took the world so long ?
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Like so many others I am glad to see more people around the world take up the issue of the school girls who were kidnapped more than two weeks ago from #Chibok in the north east region of #Nigeria. I am relieved to see people of different backgrounds, in my social media feeds join the […]
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News from #Nigeria
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I told my son that he would get his first sense of things as soon as we boarded the flight. Planes bound for #Lagos, I told him, were filled with black people and not just in economy but in first and business class too. Lagos, capital of the Black Atlantic and megacity of nearly twenty […]
#OPINION #PHOTOGRAPHY #gay_rights #Goodluck_Jonathan #homosexuality #Mallam_Sanusi_Lamido #NoViolet_Bulawayo #Uganda #Youssou_N'Dour
#GEJPOSE: When #Goodluck_Jonathan got the hashtag treatment
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It baffles us why politicians and public agencies–especially unpopular ones–think they can still control their images in the age of social #MEDIA. Take the New York Police Department’s @NYPDNews account on Twitter to #MyNYPD campaign to solicit members of the public for photos they took with officers. Instead, Twitter users hijacked the hashtag with photos […]
When #Goodluck_Jonathan got mocked on Twitter
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It baffles us why politicians and public agencies–especially unpopular ones–think they can still control their images in the age of social #MEDIA. Take the New York Police Department’s @NYPDNews account on Twitter to #MyNYPD campaign to solicit members of the public for photos they took with officers. Instead, Twitter users hijacked the hashtag with photos […]
The social #HISTORY of a ‘moral panic’ in #Nigeria
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It’s déjà vu all over again. Thirty five years ago, Stuart Hall and colleagues wrote one of the founding works of Cultural Studies, Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order. They wanted to understand the situation of a curious ‘crisis’ gripping the British population, largely through its media: mugging. As Hall et […]
#Goodluck_Jonathan #homophobia #Same_Sex_Marriage_Prohibition_Act_2014
#Watch Binyavanga’s brilliant YouTube #documentary calling out the BS behind “African” #homophobia
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We’ve been looking forward to this one. When our friends at the Guardian and BBC (and plenty of other outlets) finally reported on Binyavanga Wainaina’s wonderful essay yesterday, we learned that he had a documentary up his sleeve as well. And here it is, in six witty, moving, thoughtful, hilarious, essential, truthful parts — “We Must Free […]
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#Nigeria’s Gay Problems
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let’s raise our hats to the biggest global news of the week thus far, after all this is Africa is a Country, not Earth’r’us: Nigeria, that giant town in Africa, declaring its disdain for any form or likeness of homosexuality. All peace-loving and weary Africans were barely coming out of mourning for Madiba (yes, we do need a month for mourning) when we were jolted back to surreality with the news that Nigeria had enacted one of the farthest hate mongering laws against any Nigerian who is not inclined towards opposite sex monogamy, polygamy (as long as it is between one man and several women only), and pedophilia (national senators in Nigeria actually think this is a (...)
#Nigeria : 50 milliards de dollars de revenus du #pétrole disparaissent
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Cette information a été rapportée au président #Goodluck_Jonathan par le chef de la Banque centrale du Nigeria Lamido Sanusi dans une lettre.
Comme l’a noté Sanusi, les traces de cet argent se perdent sur les comptes de la compagnie pétrolière d’Etat Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) .
NNPC aurait ainsi « perdu » environ 76 % de son chiffre d’affaires annuel, l’équivalent de 2 années du budget annuel du pays. Sanusi a ajouté qu’il écrit au président à ce sujet depuis 2010, il n’a jamais reçu une réponse à ses lettres.
