Nigeria: The Managers of Our Commonwealth

6 March 2015

For a start, I saw a posting on social media in which a man was pictured standing on an electric pole. A message on the poster reads: "I told them, I want to vote for Buhari, they asked me to go and hug electric pole. I have hugged it, nothing happened. We don't have power supply 'joor'." Does that message strike you?

In the past two weeks, long queues have returned to our gas stations and this year alone, the power supply has been so erratic. That has heightened the frustration everywhere. To compound the problem, Nigerians (with ingenuity for creating their own social services) have increased their INVESTMENTS in generators for power supply, though at the risk of hearing loss and many other environmental problems associated with the use of the combustible machine, including its contribution to reducing lifespan.

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