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Investor Will Turn Flared Niger-Delta Gas to Fertizer

December 5th, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Business and Entrepreneurship, Environment, Niger-Delta, Nigeria

A private equity group (Emerging Capital and Notore) is about to make money out of the chaos in the Niger-Delta…”want to redirect natural gas to a more beneficial use: nitrogen fertilizer, of which natural gas is the main ingredient.”
“You cannot let this humongous asset waste away while Nigeria flares gas and imports fertilizer,” says […]

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Who is going to save Nigeria?

July 7th, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Conflict, Corruption, Democracy, Niger-Delta, Nigeria

One of the readers of this blog sent in an email asking why there hasn’t been postings on Nigeria as it used to be, specifically wanted to know what I think of Margaret Hill, the three year old girl who was seized from a car on her way to school in the Niger-Delta city of […]

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Links on Friday - 5

February 23rd, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Africa, Blogosphere, Business and Entrepreneurship, Conflict, Diaspora, Egypt, Environment, Ethiopia, Governance, ICT, Niger, Niger-Delta, Oil, Web 2.0

Benn Loxo Du Taccu: Groovy Naija

African Shirts: Plaut and Hearing - Embattled Nigerian Vice President’s interview on World Today

NYT: Egypt: Blogger Gets 4 Years- An Alexandria court sentenced a blogger, Abdel Kareem Nabil, to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt’s president through his Internet writings.

BBC: Oil worker shot dead in Nigeria

Via TechCruch: […]

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Nigeria: The Niger-Delta Scam

February 21st, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Conflict, Governance, Niger-Delta, Nigeria, Oil

It’s getting seriously irritating to read about hostages been taken and released in the Niger-delta every other day. How much has been paid as ransom since the bandits perfected this scam-strategy? Where does the funds come from, and whose pockets does it go? I suspect a cabal runs these militia and it’s quietly profitting from the scams at the detriment of all Nigerians, particularly the innocent indigenes of the Niger-delta.

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Facts from the Nigerian Census: Data on Sparsely Populated Oil-Rich Bayelsa

January 11th, 2007  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Activism, Corruption, Democracy, Governance, Niger-Delta, Nigeria, Oil

In Nigeria, gaining access to national data (of relevance) on the Internet can be likened to squeezing water out of a rock. When I received the (unofficial) figures for the states as estimated by the 2006 census, I did one of the things I had wanted to do in a long while: cross-tab the monthly […]

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