Jet Hits Homes In Lagos

http://www.nigerianeye.com/2012/06/breaking-news-plane-crash-in-iju-lagos.html

It's something I worry about, being in-between 3 major airports.

UN Mad At Shell Oil

Maybe a chunk of those profits this quarter will go to clean up your mess in Nigeria????

Nigeria OK'd To Sue Shell For Oil Spills

Um, why do UK courts have to "OK" this? Doesn't Nigeria have courts? Did they not sign/read contracts?

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/08/20118443757118175.html

I Love A Nice Cup Of Coup

President Mamadou Tandja is toast, for doing the same thing as Honduras' President tried last year...stay in office longer than the Constitution says. Why can't they do this in Venezuela, have a coup?? Every time you see a pic of Tandja, he is shaking hands with someone from China. The people need China and Tandja out of their back pockets. Talk about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, this is really it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8523196.stm

I love that after it was over, state radio (like CSPAN here) was playing military marches. Too funny.

Nigeria Gets A New President..

The infamous Goodluck Johnathan!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8507289.stm

Who ever can play him in the movie about his meteoric rise to power??
Denzel (from American Gangster).

No Oil For Nigeria

I can't blame Shell for shutting down Oil production, the residents can't negotiate, so they attack the pipelines. Now they will get nothing. The Nigerian Government should be attacked for holding out, but I think it would better if MEND found ways to attack them, not the pipelines. It's all a messy situation, and now Shell is caught in the middle, and sitting on a large investment, that is producing naught.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8490494.stm
Boo hoo!