Nigerians can't watch Africa Cup of Nations on local TV - Report: Nigeria - Africa Cup of Nations. Nigerians cannot watch this important football tournament on local television. The broadcasting organization of Nigeria, the umbrella body of Nigeria’s electronic media, says this is the sacrifice Nigerians have to make in order to stop international sports rights marketing agencies from making excessive demands for television coverage. "We the broadcasters, the media owners in Nigeria, have decided to take the bull by the horns and be masters of our own destiny. We have decided that we will not accept a situation where some shylock individuals come into Nigeria brandishing rights documents to us and forcing broadcasters to accept such rights hook line and sinker, " says Abubakar Jijiwa, Chairman of the broadcasting organisation of Nigeria. Nigerian television stations drew this battle line following their disagreement with agents of Sportfive, the company that has the rights for broadcast of the Africa Cup of Nations.
"This is an embarrassment given to a country like Nigeria", he says. Nigerian students solve power shortages with urine - Nigeria. Most Nigerians have to rely on generators because of the epileptic power supply. Many businesses have also closed down because they cannot afford to buy expensive fuel from the black market to power their generators. Faced with this problem, four teenagers from the Doregos Private Academy School in Lagos developed a generator powered by urine. “We noticed that many Nigerians, [those whose] businesses depend on a power supply have virtually been put out of business because of the high cost of power, so we decided to make a device that will reduce this problem.
We noticed that waste products can be used to generate energy that is why we decided to experiment on urine,” said Eniola Bello, one of the students. The generator is powered by hydrogen and oxygen formed from urine stored in a compartment attached to the generator. Adebola Duro-Aina, another student, said six litres of urine can power the small generator for 36 hours. Dozens killed in bomb and retaliatory attacks in northern Nigeria - ANALYSIS: NIGERIA. A church was targeted in the state capital, also called Kaduna, and blasts ripped through two churches 30 kilometres away in the city of Zaria in coordinated bomb attacks. At the Christ The King Catholic Church in the Gari district of Zaria, thirteen people were killed when a suicide bomber attempted to drive through a barricade at the entrance.
The death toll could have been higher had it not been for security measures in place. “If they had succeeded in entering only god knows what would have happened. I probably wouldn’t be alive,” George Dodo, the reverend of Christ The King Catholic Church told RFI. Both the Christ The King’s Catholic Church and ECWA Church (ECWA) are situated close to a Nigerian Army barracks. No group has claimed responsibility, although last week the Islamist group, Boko Haram, said it carried out attacks on two churches in the city of Jos that killed seven people. “Forty three people have been brought here today with injuries. Slideshow: Fuel strike raises tension in Nigeria - Nigeria. Sharia favours the rich, claim Nigerian rights activists - Nigeria - report. Sharia has been practised to varying degrees for as long as Islam has been in Nigeria.
But in 1999, the then-governor of Zamfara State, Ahmed Sani, called for criminal cases to be tried in Sharia courts. Civil rights activists in Nigeria complain that Sharia hands down harsh sentences to poor Muslims, while the rich use it to their advantage. Ahmed Sani, the architect of Sharia in modern Nigeria, is a case in point. He married a child bride from Egypt last year and condoned his actions citing Sharia, which permits men to marry wives as young as 13.
Civil rights activist, Shehu Sani stood up to Ahmed Sani, who is no relation, “for those of us who were human rights activists and Muslims we had a duty to our conscience and to our people to stand up to Ahmed Sani. Because we were concerned that Sharia would be used against the poor and to hunt down political enemies.” Several Sharia cases have brought condemnation from the international community. Bomb blasts mar start of Nigeria's presidential elections. Repeated shootings and other attacks blamed on an Islamist sect have occurred in the city in recent months, though police have said some of the past incidents may have been politically linked. Meanwhile, polling stations have opened in the country's landmark presidential elections as Africa's most populous nation bids to hold its cleanest polls for head of state in nearly two decades. Large queues were said to have formed in some areas before some stations had opened. Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan is favoured to win.
His main challenger is ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, who benefits from significant support in the country's north and has developed a reputation as an anti-graft figure, though his regime in the 1980s was also accused of outrageous rights abuses. More than 73 million people have registered to vote in the vast West African nation and the organisation of the poll is being closely watched.
Nigeria's Agony Dwarfs the Gulf Oil Spill. The US and Europe Ignore It | CommonDreams.org. We reached the edge of the oil spill near the Nigerian village of Otuegwe after a long hike through cassava plantations. Ahead of us lay swamp. We waded into the warm tropical water and began swimming, cameras and notebooks held above our heads. We could smell the oil long before we saw it – the stench of garage forecourts and rotting vegetation hanging thickly in the air.
A ruptured pipeline burns in a Lagos suburb after an explosion in 2008 which killed at least 100 people. (Photograph: George Esiri/Reuters) The farther we travelled, the more nauseous it became. Soon we were swimming in pools of light Nigerian crude, the best-quality oil in the world. Forest and farmland were now covered in a sheen of greasy oil. That was the Niger delta a few years ago, where, according to Nigerian academics, writers and environment groups, oil companies have acted with such impunity and recklessness that much of the region has been devastated by leaks. "The oil companies just ignore it. Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com - Nigeria: 50 years of oil spills. In Nigeria, Oil Spills Are a Longtime Scourge. Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it | Environment | The Observer. We reached the edge of the oil spill near the Nigerian village of Otuegwe after a long hike through cassava plantations.
Ahead of us lay swamp. We waded into the warm tropical water and began swimming, cameras and notebooks held above our heads. We could smell the oil long before we saw it – the stench of garage forecourts and rotting vegetation hanging thickly in the air. The farther we travelled, the more nauseous it became. Soon we were swimming in pools of light Nigerian crude, the best-quality oil in the world. One of the many hundreds of 40-year-old pipelines that crisscross the Niger delta had corroded and spewed oil for several months.
Forest and farmland were now covered in a sheen of greasy oil. That was the Niger delta a few years ago, where, according to Nigerian academics, writers and environment groups, oil companies have acted with such impunity and recklessness that much of the region has been devastated by leaks. "The oil companies just ignore it. Worse may be to come.