Nigerian Times

I am not giving the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) two thumbs up or a standing ovation for arresting corrupt ex-governors in Nigeria, because the EFCC is afraid of arresting the sacred cows and the untouchables in Nigeria. Most Nigerians are corrupt. And they prefer to wait for their turns to loot and rob than prosecute the corrupt rulers. Most Nigerians are the beneficiaries of the corrupt rulers and their accomplices. So, they are equally guilty. And the worst criminals are the hypocrites flocking the churches on Sundays and mosques on Fridays. I just feel like taking a machine gun and going into their churches and mosques and spray them with live ammunition. The greatest achievement of former President Olusegun Obasanjo is the break down of law and order in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, because it was Obasanjo’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) that created the Frankenstein on rampage in the Niger Delta.Illegal oil rogues and their accomplices in the Nigerian Na...

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More Than 100 Bloggers Worldwide Collaborate on e-Book to Benefit Charity DES MOINES, Iowa, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In what may be a first-of-its- kind online collaboration, 103 marketing professionals have joined together to write The Age of Conversation, a book being released today. The book is available in a downloadable e-version and in hardcover and softcover. All proceeds will be donated to Variety, the international children's charity.The book has an unusual story behind it, involving online connections between people around the world who have never met each other. Drew McLellan, who heads McLellan Marketing Group, an advertising agency here, has been writing a blog online since last September. His blog, http://www.drewsmarketingminute.com/ is among the 25 most-read marketing blogs. McLellan's partner in this adventure is another marketing blogger in the top 25, Gavin Heaton, Interactive Director at marketing agency Creata, in Sidney, Australia. Heaton blogs at http://w...

The Washington Post Thursday report on "Ransoms Fuel Surge in Nigeria Kidnapping" has raised the critical questions we must ask on the escalation of kidnappings of foreign oil workers and members of their families in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The genesis of the Niger Delta crisis has been addressed in "Niger Delta Kidnappers Plc" , that was published on the Nigerian Times International Forum in January, 2007 and also published on Conflict in the Niger Delta . The notorious ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) of Nigeria and well known retired military officers, active naval officers, army officers, state governors and their accomplices are all implicated in the illegal oil bunkering and kidnappings of foreign oil workers in the Niger Delta. The former governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odilli and governor of Delta State, Mr. James Ibori employed the gunmen and so called militants operating in the Niger Delta since 1999 to 2007.The two ex-governor...

Daring unidentified gunmen kidnapped the 3-year-old son of Eze Francis Amadi, a prominent Igbo town chief in the Niger Delta on Thursday, July 12, 2007. The kidnappers are on rampage in the Niger Delta and becoming more desperate by the day as even the innocent children of expatriates and rich oil contractors are no longer safe in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. But most people in the western world and mainstream western media don't know that the ruling political party in Nigeria is responsible for the lawlessness and terrorism in the oil rich south of the 8th largest oil producer in the world. Read the full report .

Kidnapped British-Nigerian Toddler Released! The BBC reports the good news of the release of the three-year-old British-Nigerian girl Margaret Hill in the Niger Delta. She has been reunited with her parents after being freed by kidnappers who had held her for four days. Margaret Hill's parents, Mike and Oluchi Hill, said she was in good health but "covered in mosquito bites". More details . The parents said no ransom was paid. But the fact is no hostage is ever released gratis in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. The Niger Delta Kidnappers Plc has many stakeholders and shareholders, including prominent chiefs, politicians and gangsters.

In the July 16 Newsweek cover "Black & White" (on newsstands Monday, July 9), Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe and Correspondent Daren Briscoe report on whether Illinois Senator Barack Obama, who wants to be the nation's first black president, can appeal to both black and white, while still being true to himself. Obama faces many challenges in what he calls his "improbable candidacy," but few are as complex or emotional as the politics of race. World Exclusive: NEWSWEEK Cover: Black & White on Barack Obama

The Nigerian Super Blog is a network of Nigerian blogs with over 197 blogs so far and this number will increase as new blog feeds are added daily. The preview version of The Nigerian Super Blog was launched on the 1st of July 2007 and the site is still very much in active development. Check it out NOW!

Suddenly more Nigerian babes and ladies are blogging and making the Nigerian blogosphere sizzling with hot posts. And they are attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors. Most of their blogs are what I call scuttlebutt blogs or daily social gist and tidbits blogs. And Bella Naija leads the pack, followed by Linda Ikeji and company. Adaure is still in a world of her own, because she is like the Oprah Winfrey of the Nigerian blogosphere in her subject matters. Queen Ebong and others are still exciting and thrilling. The most profiled Nigerian female blogger still remains Sokari Ekine of Black Looks. . And Funmi Iyanda would be more enlightened if she spends some quality time with Sokari. There are Nigerian female bloggers as young as 11. Two of them have left comments on Nigerian Times since 2005. There are over 400 Nigerian bloggers and quite a small number for a nation of over 140 million people. Even South Africa and Kenya have more bloggers than Nigeria. There are over 5 mill...

The BBC has reported the shocking news of a 'UK toddler' Kidnapped in Nigeria .The report said the three-year- old baby girl of a British expatriate worker was seized from a car on her way to school in the oil city of Port Harcourt early Thursday morning.

Nigeria: President Yar'Adua Must Save Nigerian Universities From Total Collapse President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan were university lecturers before dumping their academic gowns for Nigerian politics. And millions of their old boys expect the best things to begin to happen to Nigerian education, because of these two former academics that are now in power. That is why they are not surprised that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is going to end the three months old strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).The pragmatic measures of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ended the last nationwide workers strike and he is employing the same pragmatic approach to end the protracted ASUU strike. President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua knows the cause of disagreement between the government and Nigerian university lecturers, because he had been through similar trials and tribulations of Nigerian academics in the past. And it would be unfortunate ...