Nigeria

Just Toluwa claims to think in her language which I’d assume is Yoruba. I, Akpenvwoghene DB, think in Pidign English; not the rarified widely intelligbile variant as spoken by the Fine boy Agbero but the razz, crass variant, spoken in the creeks of the Niger delta where my progenitors trace their ancenstry to. A number of people have cast aspersions on my Pidgin English abilities, as well as the appropriateness or otherwise of my raz9ijaboi moniker. This should put an end to it forever! Enjoy ...

Found this story on the BBC website. Its an ambitious heist at a top notch Paris jewelry shop.. Wonder how much publicity this might have gotten if it happened in Nigeria - or online????

Found this interesting article about forgeries of academic qualifications by some Asian students who somehow got admitted into Newcastle University.. With all the bad publicity 9ja has been getting (no thanks to crackdowns on journalists, inventive facebook scams and the brutalisation of a certain Ms Okere); its somewhat gratifying that not all things bad are Nigerian. On a more serious note though - what do y’all think drives the need to forge documents to gain entry into a University especially when these Universities have access to a plethora of tool for verifying these documents? ...

Na wah o!!! Just saw my man ‘Pescara’ nearly trading blows with an ‘Okada’ rider on the road o.. The issue? A hand trolley pusher on the road had strayed off the kerb onto the road and the car he was in had to stop suddenly.. As a result the motor bike behind the svelte 406 he was in slammed into the car’s rear end and fell on the ground.. Rather than the bike man to accept he was wrong and apologize, he launched into a tirade in the local language about ‘people who use stolen money to buy cars and then consitute hazards to other road users" ...

WOW – tot I’d gone AWOL before but this certainly tops them all – No fault of mine though, my lousy ISP here in 9ja decided they needed to switch their US based service provider - and it took them over 1 month to sort out – Well - its good to be back and tho i hate to admit it - the speed’s a tad bit faster now… Hopefully when the MTNs and GloMobile’s of 9ja decide to turn on the HSDPA switches, they’ll price it within the reach of the avergae 9ja guy and we’ll not be dependent on these half-baked ISPs anymore..

I am still reeling from the sham called elections that were held in Nigeria this month. The flagrant abuse of power on the part of PDP, the lack of a credible opposition response and the total disregard of the 60 million (really?) registered Nigerian voters have combined to leave a sickening feeling in the depths of my guts.. I’ve had time to think through the whole process though and find the following salient points worthy of note 1. The PDP won only because they rigged more - every other party with the exception of possibly FRESH and Pat Utomi - attempted to put in place structures to aid and abet rigging in their favor. The PDP landslide only happened because they had more muscle 2. Most of the opposition candidates only featured on the platform of the oppostion because they were unable to gain a toehold in the party that had the “powers that be” in each region. 3. No credible plans and agenda were articulated by the vast majority of persons standing for election. ...