Mama dear,
I won't bore you with the loads of excuses and issues that have kept my mails to you as slow and intermittent as both our water and electricity public utilities. Nor would it be any more useful to let you know how our nation has been dispatching both distinguished and hapless souls to the great beyond, either in plane crashes, pipeline fires, pathetic roads or simple malaria: you see them up there - in droves!
If you think that things are rough or tough here, you will be stunned at how other unfortunate countries exist. In addition to bad leadership, they have to contend with frauds, strifes, diseases, famine, high oil prices and droughts. How some of those poorer countries cope is pure mystery!
Oh, the richer nations are not all glowing on beds of roses o! Floods, heat-waves, snow blizzards, wild fires, aging populations, diminishing traditional values, inelegant politics, home and foreign terror threats, resurgence of right-wing nationalists, trade wars with emerging economic powers like China, India and Brazil, and the politics of diplomatic arrogance & global intolerance. No, the rich isn't free at all. Indeed, as they say, the rich also cry!
So, I welcome you to 2007. Am I despondent? Haba mama, you know I'm a boundless optimist. How much store do I place on the new year? Oh, a store-load! Our moment of God's promise is here. By May 29, a new crop of leaders will emerge...I assure you. And I will keep you posted.
Posted, you may ask? Now, don't rub it in. I know I don't control the inefficient public ISP, but it was finally privatised late 2006. Who to, is a story for another day. Actually, the initial public offering of Transcorp, its new owners is currently on. Google has been running some of the adverts on my blogs! So, there is hope.
I apologise of course for my poor postings to you and dad in 2006. Please bear with me. It will be well in 2007.
Love you
Dayo
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