Can anything good come out of the ghetto?
Yes! “Where there’s darkness little light can shine”, take a look:

Ajegunle.org has received tremendous media coverage and has been presented in various for a across the world (Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt, United Kingdom and Switzerland) as a case study on how ICTs can be used to aid development [...]

Podcast: Community leaders in Nigeria’s restive oil-rich Niger Delta have unanimously rejected a government-proposed summit aimed at resolving the military crisis in the region.
Lidum Mitte the President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People offers some insight why the summit is rejected: Previous summits had been reduced to mere “talk shops” [...]

Sade won the Best First Book Commonwealth award for Africa Region in the 2008.

How does African Union deal with presidents who inaugurate themselves in faulty elections? There are lot of elections that have not been not been free and fair.

A woman selling her body for material gains is by no means a new concept, neither is the notion of female students on Nigerian campuses exchanging sexual favors for money. The campus situation is so bad that:
Professional prostitutes are using all means so as to gain admission into the university because according to them, [...]

Nigeria-based GloMobile has recorded an instant hit among the people of Benin Republic who have been trooping to dealers’ shops and Glo’s retail outlets to subscribe to the network.
In the first 10 days of commencing operations, the network has sold about 600,000 SIMs while over 200,000 lines have already been activated on the network.
The growth, [...]

PODCAST, Nigeria: Competing in the generations-old practice of traditional boxing used to be the preserve of butchers and meat handlers in northern Nigeria. But, in recent years, poor young men from a variety of backgrounds are being drawn to the boxing arena, in the hope of winning cash, prizes and respect. Sarah Simpson (VOA) reports [...]