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NNS Nigeria is About to Collide with the Iceberg

Chxta, a UK-based Nigerian Blogger examines the state of the academia in Nigerian nation, excerpts:
…The very best brains are retained by the academia, or at the very least allowed to go into industry but encouraged to contribute to academic work in one way or the other. Glen Mapp, one of my lecturers during my Masters [...]

Jazz Song Bird Douye is on the Journey


Douye is a Nigerian-America singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. Douye’s musical style is smooth jazz, soul, and R&B.

Sexuality vs. Spirituality: Can Nigerian Gay Church Stand? [video]

The first gay church in Nigeria opens its doors to gay members in Lagos.
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The Nigerian South and Northern Hemisphere

When I saw the Nigeria Daily Champion news headline To hell with your oil, North tells South, I thought it was an intentional ploy to capture a reader’s attention. But reading through the whole post, I discovered that this was no crafty ploy to sell the paper but a new dispute seems to be brewing [...]

Nigeria: Wole Soyinka and Ed Kashi on Niger Delta [video]

Awash in oil, yet its people, for the most part, are destitute. Nigeria discovered \"liquid gold\" half a century ago and today is the world\'s eighth largest oil exporter. But the country is plagued by corruption, inefficiency, underdevelopment and an uprising in its Niger Delta

Nigerian Nobel Laurette Wole Soyinka and American photo-journalist and author of “Curse of the Black Gold” discusses oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria.

Nigeria: Niger Delta Militants Strike Again! [podcast]

Nigeria’s main militant group says it has blown up two more oil pipelines in an overnight attack. In an email to journalists giving details of the overnight attack, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta says the pipelines in Rivers State are operated by a unit of oil giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC.
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Nigerian Man Murders Wife in America

On Thursday, July 24, 2008, a 50-year old Nigerian man Michael Collins Iheme shot and killed his 28-year old estranged wife, Anthonia Iheme, in her work parking lot. Witnesses say Michael fired several shots into her car then ran into another car and drove away. Shortly after the crime, he called 911 and [...]