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• Nigeria Goes After Big Tobacco

  Those feisty Nigerians!  First they sue Pfizer, for the ticky-tacky oversight of testing drugs on Nigerian children without their parents' consent.  Now the government is suing three major tobacco companies for, among other things, aggressively targeting Nigerian kids in their advertising.   Heavens to Betsy!  Could this mean that Africans are tired of being the go-to continent for everything banned or restricted in the western world?   Read More... Posted Jan 14 2008, 08:51 AM by asflutz with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: smoking, Phillip Morris, Nigeria, Big Tobacco

• 8 Kids Left Home Alone While Mom Leaves Country

  I hate it when this happens: you leave the country on New Year's Eve, planning to be away for, oh, a month or two because you're getting married in Nigeria (at least that poor Nigerian prince finally got a bite from the zillions of emails he's been sending, poor lonely rich guy that claims he is), and while you're gone, your six kids (and the two they're babysitting) can't have the decency to keep the place up and eventually the authorities are called in to investigate. I mean, can't a mom get away for some "me" time once in awhile? After all, it all worked out... Read More... Posted Jan 04 2008, 03:03 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: child abuse, mothers who leave their kids, Nigeria