The New Africa Shrine back in business

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After being shut down by Nigerian authorities in Lagos. Femi Kuti's club The New Africa Shrine is back in business and serving its happy  patrons with great Afro beat music and sustaining the Legacy of Afro beat legend Fela Kuti...The beat goes on.

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Femi Kuti plays live in NYC 6/4/09

Video report on refugees of the Niger Delta crisis

Due to the Nigerian military offensive on the militant groups disrupting the oil flow in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, hundreds of people of the Gbaramatu Kingdom have been forced to run away from their homes to refugee camps in the surrounding area. Deji Badmus captures their plight in these refugee camps.

Deji Badmus is The 2008 winner of the CNN Mulitchoice Africa Journalist Award and the Nigeria Media Merit Award for TV reporter of the year.

Hacker attempts to help victim of Nigerian 419 scam recover $400,000

An American female minister named Janella thought at first she was dealing with a Bank in Spain in which she has so far lost $400,000. However, upon further investigation it was later revealed to her that all her money has gone to a Nigerian fraudster who calls himself Obi. He apparently was playing the middle man in this financial exchange. Another unfortunate statistic in the Nigerian letter scam.

A hacker on the good side who calls himself Gray Hat has decided  to help Janella get her money back.

It's a shame that in our current generation Nigeria is pretty much synonymous with cyber crime to the point of it becoming a Hollywood movie.

American sighted hawking on the streets of Lagos

As part of a six moth research project on hawking and street trading in Lagos, Mr. Sean Alsilski from New York decided not to be just another observer and took it upon himself to literally walk the walk and  has been  hawking gala sausage rolls in lagos.

So far he has been attracting large crowds of Lagosians who are curious and amused at the rare sight of a caucasian male hawking food on the streets of lagos.

Mr. Alsilski was earlier reluctant to divulge his true motive for his actions and used excuses like saying he was too busy to talk to anyone as a decoy for the curious inquisitors and continued to sell his gala sausage rolls to motorists who relished the novelty as other observers giggled at the scenario.

But after persistent prompting by a reporter, he finally spilt the beans on his true motives. Here are the quotes from Mr. Alsilski:

“I have been here for five months now, hawking. I have one month to go. I am going to give a presentation to the United States Embassy about my research,”

“Hawkers here are under stress right now from the government and I am studying what the government is doing right now. We can make some recommendations. “Government is harsh on them. Some of them have had their goods taken away. I am not sure that is the best way to go about it. “In some cities, hawkers and traders are given licenses and allowed to go to certain areas to hawk. But hawkers should not be allowed to hawk in places like Oshodi,”

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Unplanned pregnancies on the rise among Nigerian young women

Despite improvements in education for Nigerian teenagers and young women, there has been a rise of unplanned pregnancies in that particular demographic in Nigeria.

The study carried out by the Guttmacher Institute based New-York said low use of contraceptives is one of the reasons of this rise in pregnancies among Nigerian teenagers and young women. The institute also adds that the Nigerian government had failed to promote sexual health information for young Nigerians.

Prof. Friday Okonofua who is the the executive director of the Women's Health and Action Research Centre based in Benin, Nigeria and the co-author of the report had this to add:

"We have made progress in encouraging young people to stay in school, but we are failing Nigerian adolescents when it comes to providing them with the information and services they need to delay marriage and avoid unintended pregnancies,"

"Poor knowledge of family planning services leaves young women vulnerable to risks like unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV."

"advancing the sexual and reproductive health of young Nigerian women will require financial commitment from the government, as well as the political will to translate existing policies into real practices."

BBC         Guttmacher