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.

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, [...]

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 [...]

In its drive to become a true pan-African telecommunications operator, Nigeria’s Second National Operator (SNO), Globacom, at the weekend won a licence for Global System of Mobile communications (GSM) in Ghana.
Officials of Globacom see the development as a major boost in the company’s efforts to increase its take in the African telecommunications sector.
Globacom thus becomes [...]

If Obama had been a Nigerian, his race, colour and age would have been an intractable problem…In total Obama has spent just about three years as a Senator, and four years as Senator in the state of Illinois. He is just 46. If he had been a Nigerian, he would have been told to wait and allow older people to run.