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.

Tim the employee had previously read about Americans who were fired for blogging, but the termination of his employment still came to him as a surprise because he didn’t expect his Nigerian employer to stumble upon his blog.

We have obtained a list of the blog entries in question, as well as the reasons why Tim’s Employer deemed them inappropriate for public consumption:

1. Free SSL certificates “Promoting anti-corporate group CaCert”
2. An alternative to MS Passport “If it’s not Microsoft, it’s evil”
3. Macleans is back! “I own shares of the manufacturers of Close-up”
4. My first online Interswitch transaction “Promoting a potential competitor”
5. Are You Creditworthy? “Suggests that I might not be creditworthy.”
6. Finally Tackled Spam “Are you calling me a spammer?”
7. AJAX on IE5.0 “That boy knows how much I hate the Ajax team”
8. Mbuni: Open source MMS gateway “This probably means, ‘I hate my boss’. How dare you hate me?”

Tim the employer has expressed some regret over the decision to terminate his sole employee – that is, himself. However, he still maintains that he knows he made the right decision.