Nigerian Curiosity was voted Best Nigerian Politics Blog at the Naija Bloggers Award, and i thank all those who took the time to vote. Your support is greatly appreciated. Although, Nigerian Curiosity won the category, the truth is that every single blog that was nominated for that spot is a blog worth reading and that I read on a regular basis. Hence, I would like to encourage anyone reading this, to take a second and visit the following Nigerian blogs -
- Chxta
- Beauty's "Nigeria What's New?"
- Imnakoya's "Grandiose Parlor"
- Happy Lagosian
- nneoma
- plastiQ
- JustDB
- 9ja_Kuti
- imnakoya
- Stanis
- webround
- Ms. emmotions
- Geebee
- wellsbaba
- C.O.
- Doja
- L-VII
- snazzy
- STAN
- Onyeka
- Beauty
- Proudly Nigerian
- My World
- Sugabelly
- princekay123
- Chxta
- fareedasview
- StandTall-The Activist
- NIGERIAPOLITRICKS.COM
Please watch this clip from 2006. It was made to 'sell' Abuja, Nigeria's capital, as a modern city and celebrate its 30th anniversary. It was sent to me by a reader and made for good viewing. Enjoy.
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Why is the narrator in the video speaking like that. annoying.
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed it.
the first thing i noticed was the narrator's voice. it was quite refreshing to hear a speech where the speaker was not imitating a foreign accent (as most newscasters do making themselves totally incoherent).
if you ignore the satelite towns, abuja is a beautiful city. i lived in central area/wuse. during that time, i 4got about lagos traffic, i opened the taps at home and water ran. in the evenings, i took strolls around the tarred and flower lined streets. i could afford to sleep late knowing that if i left home at 7.30 am, i would still be in the office latest by 8.am. you can't do that today in lagos even if you live in ikoyi and work in v/i.
my major quarell with abuja is the lack of a rail system. the govt says they plan to build one but i think it should have been done at an earlier stage. a rail system will drastically reduce the problem encountered by those driving into work in the city from the satelite towns.
also whilst el rufai's demolitions may have been controversial to some, there is no gainsaying that it helped to maintain the masterplan of abuja
A very interesting presentation...Like it.
I've been to the city a couple of times. And the serenity always trip me. Is a place I can relocate to. My beef there is only the weather and is expensive.
Congrats on ur award.. keep the flag flying...
in btw, i came across this news article about the American Treasury secretary flying coach. Joe Biden, the American VP used to take the train everyday whilst he was still a senator.
I compare these two images with those of Nigerian Congress members, and there is a world of difference
Hey congrats again - seriously NC is seriously deserving!
Thanks for the video.
More ayetoro here
Yay!! I'm a top commenter!!!
*Does rain dance around broken laptop*
werrinnnnnnnnnn! where ma name????? :-)
congrats dear'
Yay me!!!
I am a double top commenter....
how? I am #19 and #23,thx...
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