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Ken Saro-Wiwa’s 74th Posthumous Birthday Is Today!

Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and which has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping. (more…)

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Diezani’s Travails: Family Releases Statement

The family of the embattled former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke has released a statement following the bout of “media trials” they have been going through. Read below. The Truth Versus The Media Hysteria Against The Madueke Family In this era of cyber terrorism, decency dictates that one should respond to false and defamatory allegations with silence. But there is a limit to how much any reasonable person can bear the tactics of these cyber terrorists. We all know that what makes a lie fly is the little truth contained therein. This happens to be

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The TechCabal Africabeta Chat 3.0

Nigeria is getting more innovative by the minute of every second!  (lol, yeah...) The first edition of Africabeta took over Lagos on the evening of Saturday Oct 3rd. Organized by TechCabal, the event was quite the spectacle as stakeholders in the African tech scene, graced the event looking brilliant and beautiful, eager to learn, ready to teach, ready to network. There were insightful exposes by experts, thrilled winners in the Raffle draw and of course, lots and lots of pictures. We just had to narrow it down to our favorites. Here you go: check out some of the

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Sunday Oliseh finally speaks on his face-off with Vincent Enyeama

Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh has finally told his own side of story regarding the issues he had with goal keeper, Vincent Enyeama, which saw Enyeama leaving the camp in Belgium yesterday Oct. 8th and quitting the team. In an interview with NFF's media officer, Oluwatoyin Ibitoye, Oliseh said "Its puzzling really because it because to say the least I am very hurt, I am very disappointed at the character assassination that Vincent has taken on my personality as regards this issue. If you want to retire, retire. You don't have to drag and lie and insult somebody who d