Nigeria
Olu Maintain’s New Car
Things must be looking up for Yahoozee crooner.
In his words, “cos if I hammer, first thing na hummer, one million dollars, elo lo ma je tin ba se si naira“. From what I am seeing through my window, I don’t think he has “hammered” yet. Olu came to the car dealer to negotiate [...]
Who is Nollywood fooling?
2am (I think). Friday 16 November 2007. Silverbird TV. Legends of Nollywood with Paul Obazele.
I worked through the night to get a demo of a website ready for the morning, the programme came on and I decided to invest 30 minutes into educating myself (yeah right!). Paul featured the director/producerof “Two Good Friends” featuring [...]
Definitely wrong
Sunday morning, November 4 2007, 6am. I woke up and had this feeling that I was not going to go to church. I went back to sleep.
I woke up to hear my name is screamed. “What?”. “The landlord wants to see you”. “Not again? My generator is bad, so it can’t be that. My dogs [...]
Fuji House of Commotion - For Sale
Its a Sunday, am at home. Watching TV. A favorite show comes, you guessed it, Fuji House of Commotion (last time I checked, the site was dead). Now in my honest opinion, this is one of the most successful shows on Nigerian TV.
In this episode, Rabiu has a girlfriend who has a ride and does [...]
Why do bad things happen?
Just when I thought it could not get worse, I “re-”came across Wema Bank’s website. I was having a discussion with a friend about the propects and pitfalls of the web design business in Nigeria. To prove a point that some sites are not designed to make an impact, I offered to open up [...]
How reliable are Nigerian Websites…
I took a stroll to my recharge card vendor to purchase a Multilinks 500 card to load on my phone so that I can connect to the Internet. At the spot, a discussion started about the acquisition of Multilinks by Telkom Ltd, I said that Telkom acquired 51% of Multilinks. I suspected I was wrong, [...]
Call Me Back. I’ll Blog You.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070926/od_nm/africa_beeping1_dc
I had to change my battery when I realised it had reached it’s end of life, under 6 months. Why? The people listed in this article of course. Flashers. Bippiners. Whatever you call them.
Some folks “flash” you and don’t even give you a chance to call them back. Imagine 40 flashes within a 10 minute [...]
Ile
I am sitting at my computer, working and watch TV at the same time. Superscreen. Not one of my favorite stations. This musical video comes on. A classic. Late 90s, I think. From a Nigerian based somewhere outside Nigeria. Bantu.
I really felt the chorus of the song, Ile.
“Ile… ona jin o. Its a long long [...]
In the world’s 63rd Most Expensive city
In a study I read, it was noted that Lagos is the World’s 63rd Most Expensive City. How true! It took my mind back to an event that happened on September 15 2005.
A trailer carrying a load of sardines upturned a little just after Ikeja main bridge. It was painful to see my people scurrying [...]
Nigerian Banks, Nigerian ID Card
Sometime ago, I was given a cheque to cash from Wema Bank Maryland. I woke up in the morning, feeling good that I am going to have some cash to spend for the weekend, and arrived @ the bank with 1000 kobo. Waited in line like a dutiful citizen of our great nation and was [...]
