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Background: Following nearly 16 years of military rule, a new constitution was adopted in 1999, and a peaceful transition to civilian government was completed. The president faces the daunting task of rebuilding a petroleum-based economy, whose revenues have been squandered through corruption and mismanagement, and institutionalizing democracy. In addition, the OBASANJO administration must defuse longstanding ethnic and religious tensions, if it is to build a sound foundation for economic growth and political stability. Despite some irregularities, the April 2003 elections marked the first civilian transfer of power in Nigeria's history.

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By Gwen in Africa
February 17th 2008

NIGERIA FOR 37 DAYS: PROPERLY BROKEN DOWN Africa » Nigeria » Abuja

Bike packed up and ready to leave Ekom for Abuja
It took hours of loud arguments to figure out how our bike would be transported: the boys wanted to put it in a station wagon, but finally we convinced a minibus driver to take out a few seats and wed... [more]

Nigeria, Nigeria. This has been the hardest blog entry to write. I don't want to sound like the peace-and-love Africa geek, raving on about how friendly a country that most people hate is, but I think the enforced extension of our stay in Nigeria allowed us to see a different side of it. Most people travelling through West Africa try to spend as little time as possible in Nigeria due to the country's formidable reputation. Some of the most corrupt officials in the world man the road blocks, crime is rampant in Lagos and other parts of the south, and violence [View Full Entry]

Nick helping to fix the flat on his bday

Nick with the minibus crew once they had dropped us off

By african raid
January 28th 2008

NIGERIA - WHAT YOU COULD DO IN 6 WEEKS IF YOU WERE BROKEN DOWN Africa » Nigeria » Yankari

Public transport - again!
This time in the back of a minivan with the two rear rows of seats removed.

Referring to the title - well, you could first of all get yourself and your mode of transportation to somewhere in Nigeria where you can fix it.....lets try the capital city of Abuja. After spending the night in Ekom I got up on my Birthday before 5am and walked to the bus/taxi stop (they call them Parks here, i.e. Taxi Park) to organise transport to Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. Still with no internet access that was our best guess as to where they might have parts or at least parts could be sent to us. Some taxi drivers suggested that [View Full Entry]

By PlayingForHope
January 24th 2008

This is Africa?? Africa » Nigeria

Streets of Lagos

Nothing can prepare you for Lagos. It is an overwhelming, claustrophobic city and a dramatic introduction to Africa. The best word to describe Lagos is …chaos. The roads are something else. There are no traffic lights, stop signs or roundabouts, so every intersection is a mess and traffic slows to a crawl at each one as cars “merge”, inches apart. Drivers pay little attention to lane markings, where they exist, and have little hesitation in driving off-road to gain an advantage. Car horns sound constantly as thousands of cars, buses, bikes and pedestrians contend for t [View Full Entry]

By Viajerong Pinoy
January 21st 2008

A BRIEF LUXURY AT THE ABUJA SHERATON Africa » Nigeria » Calabar

ABUJA

Overshot the border as there were no signposts, we got to Nigeria without getting stamped so we had to go back. This is in Ilara, a border town, while our passports are being processed we had truck lunch, once through we tried to change money in town but wont change dollars for us so we moved on, Not one minute later we got stopped by Immigration checkpoint and there will be 8 more that afternoon, unbelievable, most of the time we have to show our passports and officials going up the back of the truck to check us out, Sometimes we [View Full Entry]

By AfricaBound
December 23rd 2007

Afi Mountains Drill Ranch Africa » Nigeria

Drill Baby

One of the real bright spots that we encountered in Nigeria was the Drill Ranch conservation project in the Afi Mountains. Drill Monkeys are one of the most endangered monkey species due to hunting and habitat destruction. The conservation project has a breeding and re-hab centre in Calabar and then the Monkeys are taken to the Drill Ranch in the rain forest of the Afi Mountains where they are prepared to be released back into the wild. The project employs local people and interacts with the nearby villages by using local produce to feed the animals. They truely are doing some [View Full Entry]

By akeasy
November 29th 2007

My style Africa » Nigeria

Welcome to my page. I want to do something different with this page. My yarns would be in pidgin English. For those who will want to learn pidgin English this would be a good avenue. About mysel: Dem born me some 35years ago. I be hussler. I sabi my job well well. I go skool for Unifasiti of NAIJA for Nsukka. I learn Matimatiks n Komputer 4 skool. I dey travel like river. I sabi speak Queens English,small Francais and i fit make some sentences 4 Chinese(shinko),Russian and Italo. I don go China,Japan,Ghana,Togo,Hong Kong. I go still travel this month. 4 [View Full Entry]

By renewablenigeria
May 28th 2007

What's new in Calabar Africa » Nigeria » Calabar

I'll never take street signs for granted again.
It took me months to figure out how to tell what street I was on (answer: search the store signs). But now tiny dirt roads have these bad boys. One challenge I am not going to miss!

OK, I'm posting this really late so some of these aren't terribly new, but here in Calabar 'tigs dey happen-o!' While most outgoing governors here are busy planning to leave the country, there is some nontrivial stuff being unveiled as Mr Duke prepares to leave office. Well done! [View Full Entry]

By AnneMarie
May 23rd 2007

Mali to Nigeria Africa » Nigeria » Calabar

Grinding millet
My what a big mortar and pestle you have! Bamako, Mali

Well, this isn’t exactly how I’d planned to write my blog, but unfortunately it’s the way it’s panned out! Lack of internet access, lack of bandwidth when you do have the internet (one dial-up connection shared between four people anybody??), and lack of electricity through constant power cuts over the last 6 weeks or so mean that its been impossible to keep up to date with this blog. So rather than try and kill myself writing up entry after entry now that I’ve eventually found an internet café, I’m going to scrap the hurried bits and pieces I’ve sta [View Full Entry]

By Donny
May 22nd 2007

Was it The Worst Boat Trip in The World or The Best? Africa » Nigeria » Calabar

There's More Than One Way to Skin a Cow
At this roadside slaughterhouse in the northern city of Jos they like to pour kerosene onto cows and light it to get to the meat.

It is not a fair reflection on Nigeria that the subject I choose to write about for this particular blog is how I left the country. Yet leaving was the most entertaining part of an entertaining couple of weeks crossing this big bewildering nation. Nigeria was never a country high on my list of places to visit. It has even less tourist sights than its neighbouring West African countries, and even they don’t have many. But the highlight, as for all of Africa, and the reason why I keep coming back, is the people. Travelling through Africa you get used [View Full Entry]

By renewablenigeria
February 20th 2007

First time in the village Africa » Nigeria » Calabar

Linus Ita
Founder of the Mfaminyen Conservation Society

Linus Ita is an incredibly determined person. I certainly did not meet him by chance. This strongly built man with steadfast demeanor was attending every meeting related to renewable energy he could, committed to figuring out how to bring it to his un-electrified village. He had been doing so long before I came to this country. In 1998, Linus founded a community-based conservation society to promote practices that increase the quality of life in his village while preserving the rainforest that surrounded and sustained it. In this manner, they had implemented sustainable methods of organic [View Full Entry]

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