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Posted April 25, 2008 · Charles O
Marx’s famous declaration, Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes, in light of the bizarre account that follows, appears to have been an underestimation… Superstition, in this case reinforced by organized religion-gone-perverse, is worse than a mere opiate…
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Posted April 25, 2008 · Charles O
Dozens of suspected gang members have been arrested in Italy accused of smuggling women from Nigeria to work as drug couriers and prostitutes. Thousands of women from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe are lured by the prospect of well-paid work in shops and factories. But their dreams of a better life often end in a brothel. Isoke Aikpitanyi from Nigeria is one of those women, she tell us her story. From http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db2_1200579654.
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Posted April 22, 2008 · Charles O
The documentary is broken up into 18 parts — likely as a result of Youtube’s constraint on the length of uploaded clips. If you come across the full-length feature, please let me know.
Part 1
Follow the Continue Reading link below to view parts 2 through 18.
Posted April 5, 2008 · Charles O
This came by way of unsolicited e-mail… Not half as funny as poignant.
In an effort to determine the top crime fighting agency in Nigeria, The president narrowed the field to three finalists: the State Secret Service (SSS), the Army, and the Police force.
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Posted March 19, 2008 · Charles O
For those interested in understanding the subprime mortgage crises that is currently shaking the U.S. economy, this diagram, associated with this Wikipedia article of the same subject, does a bang-up job of explaining the interrelationships between certain causes or enablers, their effects or impacts, and the responses triggered—from the perspectives of key player-entities.
Posted March 18, 2008 · Charles O
I don’t even know what to begin to think of this…
Posted March 15, 2008 · Charles O
My perspectives of Lagos in Of Travels and Travails thus far have been through the lens of a resident of a relatively rugged part of the mainland—a confluence of Danfos, taxicabs, Okadas, street traders and hawkers, hoots and honks, dins of bus-conductors’ hollers, blares of bootleggers’ loudspeakers, dust and exhaust fume-laden atmospheres, and a motley of other incongruities. All of these bring to mind…
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Posted February 12, 2008 · Charles O
Got this via forwarded e-mail:
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Posted January 30, 2008 · Charles O
Notin’ dey happen
I started to prepare myself mentally and emotionally for my travel to Nigeria as soon as I decided to take the trip and crystallized that decision by purchasing a travel ticket. I was not going to be surprised by anything I would encounter when I entered that nation-space.
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Posted January 29, 2008 · Charles O
I received this via e-mail, and found it poignant enough to share.
A man dies and goes to hell. There he finds that there is a different hell for each country and decides he’ll pick the least painful to spend his eternity. He goes to the German hell and asks, “What do they do here?” He is told, “first they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the German devil comes in and whips you for the rest of the day.” The man does not like the sound of that at all so he moves on. He checks out the American hell, as well as the Russian hell and many more. He discovers that they are all similar to the German hell.
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