Nigeria: 2012 - the Year That Almost Wasn't

31 December 2012

FOR a year that nearly did not start, 2012 had its high moments, like Nigerians waking up on January 1, only for their ululations of "Happy New Year" to be abbreviated on learning they might have to sell some of their kids if they wanted to fuel. If you think it was a joke, ask those who pawned their wards to raise the return fares from their villages to the cities after new fuel prices threw budgets - except governments' - out of control. The more enthralling details of the year follow in order of their irreverent peripherals to the lives of Nigerians who learnt the important lesson that with government, almost anything is possible.

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