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OLPC Slapped With Interim Injunction, $20 Million Lawsuit in Nigeria

Holy crap. The latest on the lawsuit against OLPC by Nigerian firm Lagos Analysis Corporation (Lancor) is that OLPC has been hit with a temporary injunction, meaning it can't be distributed or sold in Nigeria "on pain of jail time." LANCOR also wants $20 million in damages. From a charity. Groklaw insinuates something of a conspiracy theory about this lawsuit: More »

3:15 PM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By matt buchanan
5,111 views, 25 comments

homemade helicopter

Nigerian Man Builds Working Helicopters from Junk

A 24-year-old undergraduate from Nigeria is building helicopters out of old car and bike parts. Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi, a physics student, spent eight months building the yellow model seen here, using the money he makes from repairing cellphones and computers. While some of the parts have been sourced from a crashed 747, the chopper contains all sorts of surprises. More »

9:01 AM on Mon Oct 22 2007
By AddyDugdale
101,825 views, 66 comments

Nigeria Asks if Bill Gates is a Mooch Bill Gates was recently visiting Africa, but needed a visa to travel to Nigeria. Getting a visa cannot be that much of a big deal if you are a multibillionaire, or so you would think.

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laptops

India Rejects $100 One Laptop Per Child Project

Nigeria may have ordered 1 million of the OLPC laptops, but India isn't saying "Thank you, come again" to Nicholas Negroponte and his band of MIT hooligans. The Indian Ministry of Education said the laptop was "paedagogically suspect" and that "We cannot visualise a situation for decades when we can go beyone the pilot stage. We need classrooms and teachers more urgently than fancy tools." More »

8:45 PM on Wed Jul 26 2006
By Jason Chen
1,573 views, 20 comments

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PC Consumes 8.5 Watts, Has No Moving Parts

Nigerians have been so busy trying to introduce everyone on the Internet to the son of the late president of that war-torn country who needs you to help him move US$21,320,000 million out of the country, they've had little time for anything else. But instead of giving it away, someone has taken that boatload of cash and decided to put together the Solo Computer, a roughly-hewn prototype of a power-sipping PC with no moving parts that needs just 8.5 watts of solar power to run. That's a fraction of the roughly 300 watts sucked up by garden-variety PCs here in the energy-wasting First World. More »

9:21 AM on Mon Jun 12 2006
By Charlie White
1,058 views, 3 comments

Latest by n/a: What the hell does this "Nigerians have been so busy trying to introduce everyone on the Internet to the son of the late president of that war-torn country who needs you to help him move US$21,320,000 million out of the more »