UNBELIEVABLE: BBC World Insults Nigeria On Twitter

This is really really bad, it breaks my heart to see Nigeria insulted.

 

Written by By Alex Preston for BBC News

When one of Nigeria's long line of military rulers, General Olusegun Obasanjo, seized the land on which Abuja was to be built in the late 1970s, he could hardly have imagined that the city would remain unfinished 35 years on.

 

Abuja has a makeshift, haphazard feel to it: A place of bureaucrats and building sites, its streets eerily empty after the buzz of Lagos or the enterprising bustle of Kano.

It is one of the most expensive cities in Africa, and one of the most charmless.

 

The skyline is dominated by the space-rocket spires of the National Christian Centre and the golden dome of the National Mosque, facing each other pugnaciously across a busy highway at the city's centre.

 

Its other striking landmark is the vast construction site of the Millennium Tower, which, if it is ever completed, will be Nigeria's tallest building.

The skyscraper was intended to mark Abuja's 20th birthday in 2011. Now delayed until who-knows-when, hugely over-budget and the subject of numerous official investigations.

 

                                                           The National Mosque 

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Nigerian Tried to Smuggle 12kg Of Cocaine into Beirut

 Custom officers in Beirut airport (Lebanon), yesterday, foiled an attempt to smuggle 12 kilograms of cocaine into the country from Nigeria.

 The drugs, found in the possession of a man who arrived from the Nigerian city of Kano, were seized by the Customs Department at Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut.

 The man was arrested and referred to the Central Anti-Drug Office for more investigation.

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'Might be giants' : See A Niger-Delta Village In The 1960's (Before Oil and Now)

This is a picture taken in a village in the Niger-Delta before the environmental degradation swept in.

 I cant help but Notice how clean the water was and the very beautiful environment.

 One can only imagine the kind of fishes they would have been feasting on back then.

 That part of the country also has good soil and used to be heavy on agriculture back in the days.

 And below it is a picture of Oil spill at Oloibiri some years ago: please my people, Compare and contrast.

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