NEPA used to be Nigeria’s electric supply monopoly before we started having the Power Holding Companies. I understand Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Mr Joseph Tegbe, said some Nigerians are asking him to slow down the so-called improvements in electric supply because their freezers are over freezing. If that’s true, even at 18 hours per day,…
There’s a common saying, at least in Nigeria, that when a matter has gone beyond crying one should laugh! So, is the case of thieves actually making their ways into a police station in Ebute Meta, Nigeria and stealing a television set. Haba! Let’s look at it in the proper perspective. A police station is…
I learn Edo politics is now so low that one Kabaka was saying on the campaign ground that people shouldn’t vote for Obaseki because he’s childless. Haba! I believe Kabaka must have been tombo drunk before he could utter such a petty statement. But then, I wouldn’t blame him. I would rather blame the people…
Hundreds of Ugandans demonstrated outside the Turkish Embassy on Friday to demand the extradition of a dissident whose online activities are seen by local authorities as anti-government propaganda. AP reports that the dissident, Fred Lumbuye, has lived for years in Turkey, but his legal status there is unclear. His posts about Ugandan politics are viewed by…
Photo credit: Washington Post West African laboratory scientists called on governments Friday to strengthen capacity to detect disease outbreaks to avoid another major outbreak, saying health systems across the region are becoming weaker. The Associated Press reports that the scientists issued their warning in Togo’s capital, Lome, where they have gathered this week to discuss the region’s…
Photo credit: Brexit for Barnham? A tiny village on the Norfolk border is considering an independence referendum in protest at government plans to house 1,250 asylum seekers at a military base on its doorstep. Eastern Daily Press reports that villagers in Barnham are weighing up whether to follow in the footsteps of Piddington, the Oxfordshire…
An English adage says, ‘a fool and his money are soon parted’. In the Holy Bible too, in Proverbs 21: 20 reads that, ‘The wise store up choice food and olive oil but fools gulp theirs down’. The ever wise Yoruba too have many sayings about not just working but saving for the rainy day….
