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Currency chaos, where is it leading?
With the dramatic movements in the currency markets many are wondering, what is causing this and more importantly, where is this going? Here the OOL finance guy discusses some of the recent events.
How did Lagos become more expensive than L.A.?
It's very rarely African cities get compared with their flashy European counterparts, yet, when it comes to cost of living Lagos isn't just competing with its neighbors in Europe -- it's beating them.
kidnapping: more questions than answers
Kidnapping for ransom now appears to be the latest and greatest business venture in Nigeria with even the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, recently describing it as a ‘booming business’.
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incident and abduction database
Updated: 24.09.08. Click here to read our 2008 database. Also available are the full archived details of 2006 and 2007. We continue to monitor the who's where's why's and how many's of the ongoing trend of militant attacks and hostage taking in Nigeria.
War of the Cult Groups
Underground sex in the conservative north
Idris is a pimp and makes no bones about it. Because of the way the sex industry works in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, he and the women he pimps have a co-dependant relationship – they exploit each other.
Opulence and Chaos Meet in an African Boomtown
The governor’s son sits hunched at the bar, contemplating his nearly empty bottle of Hennessy. On the dance floor, the airline director’s daughter sways back and forth to a hip-hop beat.... more...