Intro

Aiight so we're back again with another installment of Your Top Ten, this time for 2010. There is a lot of alliteration in there, which is always good. I suppose it's all old hat for those two, or three, of you that have been reading my blog for a while. However my vanity allows me to allow for the possibility that I might have attracted another reader this year. I should note that I'm not vain enough to assume that this new reader went through the back issues.

So Your Top Ten is basically the top ten posts that you the readers directly navigate to. The data is o so helpfully provided by Google analytics, and it is definitely inaccurate. It is inaccurate primarily because most people (all three or four of you) read my site on the main page rather than on the post pages. However it's the best we got, and so there you have it.

So this year is a bit of a mixed bag, with only 3 2010 posts making it into the top ten, and 5 posts from the 2009 list keeping their places. We also have a post from the 2008 list making a comeback, which I think is just awesome. Anyway without any story, let's dive right in.

10. Nigeria Discussion Series
This post is honestly a surprise. Not because it isn't good (cos it is), it's just that even though it was popular in the year it was written (2007) it didn't even make the top ten in that year. I really don't know how it made it into this list. The post came about as a result of the Nigerian Discussion Series that was started by Nilla, who stopped blogging in 2008 (we miss you). I did about three or four entries in the series (which was a lot of fun). Anyway this was the first entry and it was about Nigeria as the land of opportunity. It was obviously written during the boom, and is eerily prescient: talks about mass housing being more robust than high end housing, and the danger of financial services was where to put the money, the growth of nollywood, etc. Not bad 4 year ago Snazzy :D

9. On the Skye Bank Shelter Fund
This post was the one that came back from the 2008 list. Judging by the spam comments at the end, this might be a spam entry, but whatever. I think the fund is still listed but I don't think it trades anymore. Let's just chalk it down to one of those things that banks thought that they could inflict on the market during the boom times. I would say people will learn, but wait until the next boom.

8. Dora Speaks Out
The first 2010 post in the Top Ten. This was my account of Madam Dora's stand during the last days of the Yar'Adua presidency when paralysis gripped the nation. While Dora may not have been the prime mover in freeing us from paralysis, she was indeed the catalyst. While you cannot divorce her actions from ambition (she is a politician after all), she did earn the thanks of a grateful nation. I'd even vote for her in her Anambra Senatorial Campaign (if I lived in Anambra of course).

7.EFCC Palaver
This one was the surprise entry last year, and it has maintained it's position this year. Well it's moved up one, if we are feeling pedantic (Hint: We always are). As I said last year I've pretty much changed my mind on this one. It's worth a read though, if only to experience an impassioned "wrong" argument :D

6. On The Bachelor
This is the second 2010 post that made it into the list. This is about the Bachelor and the concept of the "overnight date." It's all full of measured indignation, and it isn't bad if I do say so myself. I am definitely glad it made the top ten.

5. On Levirate Marriage
This is the last 2010 post that made it, and it is an April post. As the first two are from January and March, clearly my end of the year stuff wasn't popping as much :) Anyway this post is about the practice of marrying your dead husband's brother. It's a bit more measured indignation for y'all. It also name dropped Mary Slessor (which is always cool).

4. Prelude to a Fraud
Back up to number 4. Still pissed about the permalinks. I mean, what's the point of showing off my investigative journalist skills if the proof can't survive a website remodel, I mean really.

3. On Your Kneels
Ah, the awesome account of banking madness during the boom times. I doubt that banks will be forcing anyone on their "kneels" these days when they are turning away deposits and offering sub 5% interest rates. Yes I still have my "damn I'm good" moment whenever I read this.

2. Sunday Corper 2
I can't help it, I really want this post to drop out of the top ten, but I suppose I should be happy that it has at least been knocked off first place. No don't go read it, unless you really want to know about NYSC registration. Actually even then don't read it :D

1. Hot Girl Syndrome
I refuse to believe that the spam comments were the reason why this is number one. This post rose to this position solely on it's own merits :D I suppose it is indeed kind of obvious that I think this is one of the best things I've written on this blog. Anyway enjoy.

Conclusion

So there we have it. Sunday Corper 2 has finally been dethroned, a few 2010 posts made the top ten make it a positive year over all. The only bummer is that all the 2009 posts on the list dropped out. As always - well we started last year, but it's now a tradition what's it too you :p - here are the top tens for 2009, 2008 & 2007.

Here's to a great 2011 y'all.