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Archive for November, 2007

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What Lagos and Kano Can Learn from Calabar

November 30th, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Environment, Governance, Health, Nigeria

A section of the TINAPA complex

It’s interesting how some states have suddenly discovered the need to create “mega’ or “economic” cities all of a sudden.
Check one: Lagos. Where the governor has been all over pitch-selling his idea for a “Lagos Mega City” - a project expected to gulp several billion dollars and […]

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Fun: How to Deal With TeleMarketers…

November 29th, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Media

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AfricanLoft takes on AFRICOM

November 20th, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Africa, Governance

After some 7 days of intense ‘keyboarding’, and some 48 comments (and counting), the debate on AFRICOM has been a most interesting one on AfricanLoft…There is just an overwhelming angst against the U.S, “American boots are not welcome on African soil” is the general tone of the debate. Funny, the feds ‘pulled off the mask’ […]

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400 Nigerians Die from Road Accident Daily?

November 20th, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Governance, Nigeria

“The third Sunday of November would be the annual day of remembrance for victims of road traffic accidents and their families”, according to a United Nations declaration in 2005.
The Nigerian Federal Road Safety Commission released some stats on road traffic accidents in the country (don’t ask me how they come up with the numbers) to […]

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Making the Transition from “Keyboard Activism” to Real-time Activism

November 16th, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Activism, Advocacy

The root causes of the decay in our infrastructure have been discussed off-line, online, in public and private settings, and the compilation in words will stretch from Lagos to the moon! Even a glacier-locked Eskimo knows what our problems are in Nigeria! But what about solving them? This statement made on this blog ( see […]

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