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Nigerian Weblog Awards 2005 Winners

  • January 17th, 2006
  • 7:55 pm

In recognition of the monumental role played by Nigerian blogs in the year 2005 the Naijarita News team has created the Nigerian Weblog Awards 2005 to honour exceptional bloggers from Nigeria. Can you believe that we already have 132 blogs in a country of only 120 million people? Phenomenal, isn’t it?

Chippla Vandu’s Weblog, which seeks to portray him as a lab researcher and not the undercover BBC reporter that we know he is, deserves a honorable mention in the Fictional Blog category. However, our Best Fictional Blog of 2005 has to be Teju Cole’s teju cole, for its cunning and engaging portrayal of Nigeria as if it is a country worth reading about.

Our Best Horror Blog for the year 2005 is, without any doubt, Sokari Ekine’s Black Looks which is dedicated to telling the world about all the bad things that are happening to African women and gays. Want to know how many women are beaten, raped, infected with HIV or killed in Africa? She has it! Want to read the latest stories about gays who are mistreated, beaten, reviled, tortured, or not allowed to marry in Africa? It’s all there! Watch out for a movie based on the blog, titled “Terrible Things Happening To African Women”.

Most Dynamic Blog goes to Aderemi’s Notebook, who changes his dynamic blog template dynamically every 2 weeks or so. Sometimes the blog is orange, then it turns to deep yellow, then pale yellow, until it finally turns white. Sometimes the blogroll is on the sidebar and at other times it’s in the footer or a ‘links’ page. Finally his link blog entries are sometimes on the sidebar, sometimes on a separate page and sometimes mixed together with main blog entries. His blog url, regretably, has never changed. Maybe this year he’ll finally change it?

Other winners include:

  • Grandiose Parlor, Best American Blog: Often covers issues Nigerians don’t care about.
  • Kazey Journal, Best Commercial Blog: For fitting 6 commercial advert blocks into each page.
  • Ex School Nerd, Best Foreign Language Blog: Written in a language based on UNILAG pidgin.
  • Traedays, Best Overall Blog: We don’t know why, but we just feel like linking to him!
  • Nigerian Weblog Ring, Widest Blog Ring: With a diameter of over 34.377 blogs and circumference of 108.

11 People had this to say...

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Very funny.

Thanks. I guess.

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[…] Naijarita has selected its winners for the 2005 Nigerian Weblog Awards. 132 blogs in a country of only 120 million people, good eh! […]

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:) Couldn’t help laughing whilst reading this blog entry. Another classic piece well-written from Seun Osewa.

I find the “Most Dynamic Blog” the funniest.

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  • Tomapep (naijaryder)
  • January 22nd, 2006
  • 9:48 am

I understand you limiting your awards to bloggers registered at Nigerianblogger.com. However, there are many more naijablogs so please link to them even if they aren’t up for the awards.
Keep up the work.

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Nice one there Seun. I guess you need to work more on letting people know about this initiative. Enjoy.

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  • Prydwen
  • January 23rd, 2006
  • 11:32 pm

I suppose we will all be spammed now to be sponsors for next years award….

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  • TRAE
  • January 25th, 2006
  • 10:05 am

thanks for the award. you got a cool blog yourself.

@Prydwen : you’re crazy!

i flow straight and precise, like a man killing device/
[mess] with me i’ll take your life, cos my heart’s as cold as ice/
my mouth’s raw as Obie Trice, i love dykes i ain’t biased/
wanna battle (me)? come on be wise,i ’ll [mess] up (up) like a fly ass/

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  • MAKOLO DANIEL
  • January 26th, 2006
  • 7:59 pm

lots of nigeria have blog but i will love to know the criteria you use in adding people to nigeria weblog and i think there is not much information about the so called naija weblog.

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  • Joseph
  • February 2nd, 2006
  • 5:27 am

I seriously disagree that the number you have is representative of the nigerian situation. Moreover, the world has more than 500,000,000 bloggers today so that number for nigeria is too low to be proud of.

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  • eykO
  • February 19th, 2006
  • 11:54 am

Well let’s put sarcasms aside. What’s the gross of the Internet infrastructure in Nigeria? The last time I checked, maybe ONE undersea cable ran through the shore. So, you see, it’s laughable right from the infrastructure level. Check for yourself:
Undersea cables

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Hello,

I read with sadness - albeit wonders - that good people like you still spend their times and efforts concentrating news, insights, and discussions on internal affairs and ‘local championship’. Although, I am not a Nigerian, I admire Nigerians like the people who are behind the African Muslim Website www.esinislam.com because of their incise coverage of the international affairs.

The problems of Nigeria and Africa in general today is not internal politics. Whatever politics our people fight or kill themselves for do little to change destiny of millions of the Black people, especially their own as the world order is not made within their reach. Think about the UN, the IMF, WHO, Commonwealth, US, Israel, Palestine, Hague, G8, CNN, BBC, Ibadan’s Nigerian Tribune… Who really is in charge of how the Nigerians - sorry - the Africans are living? Shell or Dan Tata, Naira or Dollar, Obasanjo or Bush? Wake up! Get real!! Open your door for international engagements, insights, and informations.

My father who was serving as a pastor here in the United States before he returned to Ghana used to say to me many people don’t know who serve their meals. I couldn’t understand then. But, my world! How right a pastor. He also joked his Nigerian friends used to called Jesus Jesu but he could not find equavalent in Twi. Perhaps, the Africans are too lazy to pronouce Jesus. Thay are active to master English and therefore promote the heritage of those who enslaved them, chaining them and shipping them like commodities only to plant suagr cane for their…

Well, with website like www.esinislam.com - though Islamic and also available via www.islamafrica.com and www.islamicafrica.com

Wake up. Wake up Nigerians! Wake up Africans. Expose to a wider world. The problems today cannot be solved by talking only about ourselves. As African, we must see our problems from its ‘emanacium’. It is the international politics that define our destiny not local issues.

Thank you for given me this opportunity to contact you. I look forward to your response on this important matter.

However, I commend you for your efforts.

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