Dear Dad
The prices of oil & gas are soaring. That means that buyers are "groaning but paying"...for NOW! And it also means that sellers are "reaping and smiling"...RIGHT NOW!!
Don't be deceived, both sides know the costs and the consequences. New, especially renewable, sources and alternatives are being explored, developed and WILL be exploited and deployed in due course. SOONER than later!!!
My concern, dad, is that Nigeria is doing absolutely NOTHING about it! We are looting our oil & gas earnings, and have not sorted out our domestic energy & NEPA/PHCN-doom, but most of all, have ignored the global race towards renewable energy sources and resources!!!
This government seems to be oblivious to the crises. It baffles all and sundry!!!
If oil money reduces and dries up, NIGERIA will be in dire straits faster, deeper and sooner than anywhere else that I know!!!
We wait on these comedians and conspicuous consumptionists in government!!!
Your worried son
Dayo
Monday, December 17, 2007
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Year-End Yuletide: Nigerian "Roads and Foods" from HELL!
Dear Mom
2007 is virtually over. And the masses' pains aren't ending! Homes upon homes are nowhere near what will resemble either Sallah or Christmas celebrations.
The politicians have paid themselves huge perquisites and privileges while the voters are groping for solutions to the penury being perpetuated and projected by the same political class! It is very pathetic.
Nigerian roads are so bad that they strangle food security and delivery. Pocket-friendly prices are gone! Then the roads proceed to gulp innocent blood in an orgy of avoidable angst. Ember months accidents have taken new dimensions such that not many contemplate the traditional home-going with da usual excitement this year. So troubling indeed.
Now what do we do? Even electricity has virtually left the plants, the poles and the gas pipelines in the land!
Barka Da Sallah? Well, yes...spiritually.
Merry Christmas? Oh yes.....habitually.
With your prayers, and our persistence, I trust 2008 will be Happy and Prosperous!!!
Love
Dayo
2007 is virtually over. And the masses' pains aren't ending! Homes upon homes are nowhere near what will resemble either Sallah or Christmas celebrations.
The politicians have paid themselves huge perquisites and privileges while the voters are groping for solutions to the penury being perpetuated and projected by the same political class! It is very pathetic.
Nigerian roads are so bad that they strangle food security and delivery. Pocket-friendly prices are gone! Then the roads proceed to gulp innocent blood in an orgy of avoidable angst. Ember months accidents have taken new dimensions such that not many contemplate the traditional home-going with da usual excitement this year. So troubling indeed.
Now what do we do? Even electricity has virtually left the plants, the poles and the gas pipelines in the land!
Barka Da Sallah? Well, yes...spiritually.
Merry Christmas? Oh yes.....habitually.
With your prayers, and our persistence, I trust 2008 will be Happy and Prosperous!!!
Love
Dayo
Anti-Corruption: Where is JUSTICE?
Papa
There was fire on the mountain before, ba? Now there is inferno! This corruption monster is all alive and well o! In fact, it is kicking and punching and dribbling and straddling both here and abroad.
My concern this day is that JUSTICE is hardly done both in the search and solution of the matter, both home and abroad.
If you steal a goat you will go to longer prison term than if you plunder the public till to the tune of billions! Then they have this legal wonder called "plea bargain". It allows you to negotiate your terms and conditions as a rogue by NEGOTIATIONS!!! It is a worldwide practice which is now being thoroughly abused both here and abroad.
But the real wonder is how it seems our bigmen are having a field day looting, shooting and not giving a hoot about name, fame and shame! They don't care about their children or their village or their place of worship. History? Forget it! Posterity? Pass!
They made the laws and the constitution for their class convenience and cult perpetuation. They know no other way. Which is why we have no farms, no factories, no fisheries, no oil rigs, yet the guys are stinking rich and the foreign lands are embracing them with glee!
Papa, na so we see am o! Just thought I should share with you, the figures are so mind-boggling
that one is simply perplexed at what they need such gargantuan loot for.
God help us.
In trepidation
Dayo
There was fire on the mountain before, ba? Now there is inferno! This corruption monster is all alive and well o! In fact, it is kicking and punching and dribbling and straddling both here and abroad.
My concern this day is that JUSTICE is hardly done both in the search and solution of the matter, both home and abroad.
If you steal a goat you will go to longer prison term than if you plunder the public till to the tune of billions! Then they have this legal wonder called "plea bargain". It allows you to negotiate your terms and conditions as a rogue by NEGOTIATIONS!!! It is a worldwide practice which is now being thoroughly abused both here and abroad.
But the real wonder is how it seems our bigmen are having a field day looting, shooting and not giving a hoot about name, fame and shame! They don't care about their children or their village or their place of worship. History? Forget it! Posterity? Pass!
They made the laws and the constitution for their class convenience and cult perpetuation. They know no other way. Which is why we have no farms, no factories, no fisheries, no oil rigs, yet the guys are stinking rich and the foreign lands are embracing them with glee!
Papa, na so we see am o! Just thought I should share with you, the figures are so mind-boggling
that one is simply perplexed at what they need such gargantuan loot for.
God help us.
In trepidation
Dayo
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