October 2011

Online Content and Services Begins to Make Inroads Despite the Lack of Affordable, Reliable Broadband

Submitted by AA NIGERIA on 31 October, 2011 - 17:19

Nigerian bandwidth is improving but ever so slowly. There is no sign of a broadband strategy to power this process forward. However, despite this unpromising soil for growth, there are a number of interesting start-ups in the online content and services space that are beginning to establish themselves. Russell Southwood tries to read the tea leaves in a country where data is hard to come by.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201110311907.html

Dutch Doctors Help Citizens Face Life

Submitted by AA NIGERIA on 31 October, 2011 - 17:05

Patients at the Noma Children Hospital are eagerly waiting their turn to go in for surgery. Because of their disfigured faces, they have suffered years of discrimination and isolation. Now surgery will help them recover a place in public life. Children are keen to attend school, adults to resume work.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201110311899.html

79 More Libya Returnees Arrive in Maiduguri

Submitted by AA NIGERIA on 31 October, 2011 - 15:52

A total of 79 Nigerians, who were trapped in Libya, arrived Maiduguri yesterday through Gamboru Ngala, a border town between Nigeria and Republic of Chad, taking the number of returnees to no fewer than 329.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201110311785.html

ACN Raises the Alarm Over SSS Invitation of Akpanudoedehe

Submitted by AA NIGERIA on 31 October, 2011 - 15:52

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has raised the alarm over the invitation of its governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe by the State Security Service (SSS), saying the timing of the invitation called for suspicion.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201110311784.html

ACF Chieftain Counsels Reps Over EFCC

Submitted by AA NIGERIA on 31 October, 2011 - 15:51

A chieftain of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, Senator Joseph Waku, has cautioned members of the House of Representatives to thread softly on their plan to amend the Act establishing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC).

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201110311783.html

Country's Growing Population, a 'Time Bomb,' Warn Analysts

Submitted by AA NIGERIA on 31 October, 2011 - 15:45

The unanticipated rise in the Nigerian population over the last five years has been described as a potent threat to the future of the nation's economy, unless well managed by the federal government.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201110311739.html

Pilots of Crashed NAF Plane Hale and Hearty

Submitted by AA NIGERIA on 31 October, 2011 - 15:45

Two pilots of a Nigeria Air Force training plane, reportedly, survived an air mishap at the Akwa Ibom International Airport last Friday. It was the first air crash recorded at the airport, which was commissioned about two years ago.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201110311738.html

Thus Spake Orunmila to Samuel

Submitted by AA NIGERIA on 31 October, 2011 - 15:45

It is not for nothing Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka, is one of the most remarkable writers and playwrights of his generation. In yet another literary treatise, Soyinka has demonstrated his capacity to profound, excite and provoke in a new theatre production that was given exclusively to THISDAY by the laureate in which he used the Book of Samuel in the Bible to illustrate misrule by African leaders.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201110311737.html

Super Eagles to Face Rwanda in Can 2013 Qualifiers

Submitted by AA NIGERIA on 31 October, 2011 - 15:07

Nigeria's 'punishment' for failing to make next year's Nations Cup finals is a tricky qualifying tie for the 2013 edition against Rwanda.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201110311676.html

Delivering Happiness - By Tony Hsieh

Submitted by AA NIGERIA on 31 October, 2011 - 15:06

The book though not an auto biography documents the business exploits of Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, the online shoe company. Tony's background is that of Asian parents who wanted him to be either a mathematical geek, musical genius or a doctor, be it medical or PhD; Tony veered off to read Computer Science at Harvard University.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201110311662.html