Posts Tagged ‘Nigeria’

General David Mark Can Become President

 

Very few people realise that if anything happens to Goodluck Jonathan, (be it the Abiola flavoured tea or a Yaradua styled vacation), General David Mark becomes Acting President of Nigeria. Yes, the Senate President is next in line after Jonathan. That will be the return of the Military, agbada or no agbada. Make no mistake, [...]

President Turai Yar’Adua And The Shame Of Nigeria

 Photo courtesy Next
As we watch from the sidelines, the future of Nigeria and the peace of Africa is being toyed with. The admirably tough and reprehensibly selfish wife of the president has taken over government (it has been reported that she commands the Army). This has been possible only because of the support of dirty [...]

#LightUpNigeria vs. #NigerianGrammar Exposes The Problem With Nigerians

Why does #NigerianGrammar succeed while #LightUpNigeria fails to trend on Twitter? 
Although LightUpNigeria is for a VERY serious cause, had a long and great campaign plan and quite a strong campaign base, (it had the full support of heavy weight Nigerian Twitterers like  Ebuka Bigbrother, Eldee made a Video, Bella wrote a post your [...]

What does Google Predict when You Search? No, Nigeria is Not a Geographical Expression!

When you type a search into Google, it tries to predict what you might be searching for. Previously, I had assumed that the predictions were based on the most frequent searches made. What I really want to know is this, do people actually think Nigeria is a geographical expression? I made a video of other [...]

How Did all Nigerians become terrorists?!

When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab almost blew up the plane in Detroit, I raised an alarm on Facebook (like tens of thousands of other Nigerians) saying Nigeria was in a mess. My friend Sayed chided me for screaming “the sky is falling” saying “how can we be afraid that the 140 million people of Nigeria be [...]

Plagiarism at its worst! Please Thisday, retrace your steps!

Correction: “Concerned Fellow ” a commenter below, has pointed out to me that plagiarism is used for words not design and suggested design theft as more appropriate. I have taken the correction. I will still leave the title as it is though but please note the error.
Normally, my blogpost are long which is because I talk a [...]

How all Nigerians Became Scammers.

Before you start itching to rush and comment, read to the end. First, watch this video.

This official PS3 advert is the one that instigated writing about Nigeria and scams again (as I have touched on this topic previously.) I actually found the video hilarious and posted it on my Facebook.  I was actually surprised at [...]

#LightUpNigeria: If only there was light in Nigeria…

If only there was light in Nigeria…    

Food will not be expensive because we would be able to preserve it; the citizens will look healthy. It is shameful that once you look healthy the question comes… “You go Jand?”
Population will be under control because the only activity when a man and woman [...]

Cleaning Nigeria’s image on the Internet: The way forward.

This post concerns Nigeria’s image that pertains to ebusiness/ecommerce. As for the issues of politics, corruption e.t.c, we’ll discuss that another day.
I got a true experience about the way we are viewed by people outside Nigeria during my first week of classes.During lectures, a majority of course tutors found it compulsory to  associate Nigeria publicly [...]