Nigeria
Less than a week after the European Parliament gave the green light on April 6 for the new fishing agreement between the EU and the Comoros, a delegation of fishermen from West Africa, brought to Europe by the NGO Greenpeace, told MEPs and EU fisheries commissioner Maria Damanaki, on 14 April in Brussels, of the threat posed by the mass influx of European vessels into their waters.
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The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) is a non-profit organisation that helps Nigerians in the Diaspora harness their skills and resources to support the country’s development.
Established in 2000, NIDO is an initiative of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, with departments in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. NIDO branches organise networking activities between Nigerian...
Three Caribbean countries: Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba have embassies in Abuja and a consular representative in Lagos. For Robert Miller, High Commissioner of Jamaica, "Nigeria offers tremendous opportunities for cooperation with Jamaica. We are trying, for instance, to attract Nigerian investors to Jamaica and promote the export of our packaged food products to Nigeria as well...
Abuja is packed with creative people, almost all of whom are young and cosmopolitan - just like the city itself. To name a few of its up and coming residents: La'olú Senbanjo, a designer and singer known for his 'Africa mysterial art', especially charcoal on canvas where people and symbolic objects are entangled with the intricacy of lace. The song ‘God has given me...
Frank Ikegwuono is the embodiment of Nigeria’s young and vibrant cinema industry. In recent years, it has overtaken the American film industry to become, after India, the second largest producer of films worldwide. Ikegwuonu is an actor, director and producer for Urbanmingles Entertainment, a Canadian corporation. He is the publisher of an annual, ‘Who's Who’ of...
It’s 1992. A Nigerian businessman desperately trying to sell a large shipment of blank video cassettes uses them to produce a cheap local film. ‘Living in Bondage’, the story of a man haunted by his deceased wife’s ghost, becomes an instant hit, selling more than half a million copies. Nollywood is born.
Nigeria’s film industry is the world’s second largest in...
When Femi Kuti was 18 years old, his father, afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, gave him the opportunity to perform a solo. The Nigerian musician had been playing with his father’s band since he was 16, so was no stranger to concerts. Today, Femi, now 49, inspires other types of shaking. His music enthrals listeners with its universal appeal, thanks to funky melodies, conscious lyrics and highly...
One explanation why NGOs are presently less vocal in levelling criticism against the government could simply be that honeymoon period traditionally enjoyed by new heads of states. Although NGOs continue to take the government to task on what it should be doing in the short-term, they seem to be more focused on finding practical ways of dealing with current concerns.
Chom Bagu, head...
Opposition critics of the new president, Goodluck Jonathan, have yet to single out a line of attack. They are more critical of the closed nature of the actual system of governance which, they say, is open to police violence and corruption, than of the President himself. However, they also cast doubt over the new President’s ability to combat such scourges.
General Muhammadu Buhari, placed...
Nigeria and the European Union have a permanent political dialogue at ministerial level. “This dialogue,” explains Michaela Wright, Desk Officer for Nigeria at the European External Action Service (EEAS), “centres on the same priorities as our relations with the African Union; peace and security, good governance and human rights, trade and regional integration along with a...
Less than a week after the European Parliament gave the green light on April 6 for the new fishing agreement between the EU and the Comoros, a delegation of fishermen from West Africa, brought to Europe by the NGO Greenpeace, told MEPs and EU fisheries commissioner Maria Damanaki, on 14 April in Brussels, of the threat posed by the mass influx of European vessels into their waters.
Thirteen...
The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) is a non-profit organisation that helps Nigerians in the Diaspora harness their skills and resources to support the country’s development.
Established in 2000, NIDO is an initiative of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, with departments in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. NIDO branches organise networking activities between Nigerian...
Three Caribbean countries: Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba have embassies in Abuja and a consular representative in Lagos. For Robert Miller, High Commissioner of Jamaica, "Nigeria offers tremendous opportunities for cooperation with Jamaica. We are trying, for instance, to attract Nigerian investors to Jamaica and promote the export of our packaged food products to Nigeria as well...
Abuja is packed with creative people, almost all of whom are young and cosmopolitan - just like the city itself. To name a few of its up and coming residents: La'olú Senbanjo, a designer and singer known for his 'Africa mysterial art', especially charcoal on canvas where people and symbolic objects are entangled with the intricacy of lace. The song ‘God has given me...
Frank Ikegwuono is the embodiment of Nigeria’s young and vibrant cinema industry. In recent years, it has overtaken the American film industry to become, after India, the second largest producer of films worldwide. Ikegwuonu is an actor, director and producer for Urbanmingles Entertainment, a Canadian corporation. He is the publisher of an annual, ‘Who's Who’ of...
It’s 1992. A Nigerian businessman desperately trying to sell a large shipment of blank video cassettes uses them to produce a cheap local film. ‘Living in Bondage’, the story of a man haunted by his deceased wife’s ghost, becomes an instant hit, selling more than half a million copies. Nollywood is born.
Nigeria’s film industry is the world’s second largest in...
When Femi Kuti was 18 years old, his father, afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, gave him the opportunity to perform a solo. The Nigerian musician had been playing with his father’s band since he was 16, so was no stranger to concerts. Today, Femi, now 49, inspires other types of shaking. His music enthrals listeners with its universal appeal, thanks to funky melodies, conscious lyrics and highly...
One explanation why NGOs are presently less vocal in levelling criticism against the government could simply be that honeymoon period traditionally enjoyed by new heads of states. Although NGOs continue to take the government to task on what it should be doing in the short-term, they seem to be more focused on finding practical ways of dealing with current concerns.
Chom Bagu, head...
Opposition critics of the new president, Goodluck Jonathan, have yet to single out a line of attack. They are more critical of the closed nature of the actual system of governance which, they say, is open to police violence and corruption, than of the President himself. However, they also cast doubt over the new President’s ability to combat such scourges.
General Muhammadu Buhari, placed...
Nigeria and the European Union have a permanent political dialogue at ministerial level. “This dialogue,” explains Michaela Wright, Desk Officer for Nigeria at the European External Action Service (EEAS), “centres on the same priorities as our relations with the African Union; peace and security, good governance and human rights, trade and regional integration along with a...
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