According to BBC news report today President Umaru Yar’Adua will write a letter handing over power to his Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan. The letter will inform the Senate that President Yar’Adua is on “medical vacation” which automatically enables Goodluck Jonathan to become the acting president.
This is probably in response the nation’s cries for [...]

Justice at last for Uzoma Okere after been brutually beaten by some naval officers simply because she didn’t get out of the way on time for the Rear-Admiral Harry Arogundade’s convoy.
Sixty-seven year old, President John Zuma of South Africa, a proud Zulu traditionalist, has finally managed to procreate a football team plus reserves all by himself. His latest offspring, a girl, was born to Sonono Khoza, 39 and the divorced daughter of his friend Irvin Khoza. By the way it so happens that [...]
Posted by CareTaker on January 15, 2010 in Africa, Community Report, Nigeria
In the absence of the president, what’s the word in Nigeria over Haiti? Nigeria should be in the fore-front of African nations helping in Haiti. But so far, it’s been nothing but condolences, and more condolences!
The East African report Kigali will soon go wireless after the government launched a $7.66 million wireless broadband (WiBro) facility that is set to make it the first “hot spot” capital city in Africa.
The facility, whose infrastructure been under construction for the past two years, will go commercial in three months.
The wireless Internet facility was [...]
I know there has been some past talks of Yar’Adua being dead and then he resurfaces from the great beyond, but this time I really wonder and fear for the man. Why so many secrets and clouds and cover-ups as it affects Yar’Adua’s sickness, treatment in Saudi and absence from Nigeria?
Solar-powered drip irrigation systems significantly enhance household incomes and nutritional intake of villagers in arid sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new Stanford University study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The two-year study found that solar-powered pumps installed in remote villages in the West African nation of Benin were a [...]

Nigeria is included in the U.S list of “countries of interest”. Somali, Libya, Algeria, and Sudan are the other African nations on the terror watch list. “Traveling with a Nigerian passport was bad enough already but now its definitely going to be more interesting….”

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A Facebook group started to condemn the alleged attempt to blow up a US passenger plane by a 23-year-old Nigerian has attracted more than 43,000 members.
“We Condemn Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s Action: Nigerians are NOT Terrorists,” is the tagline for the Facebook group.
The group was created by Henry Omoregie, who described himself in an email exchange [...]