What a day!

My thought on the fuel crisis in Nigeria between December 2017 and February 2018 The scarcity of petrol at filling stations is not new to Nigerians. We've had the worst of it. But then we didn’t know the worst was yet to come.  So far as I have known, petrol scarcity has not been a topic for over a month but it was the issue for over two months from December 2017. The Buharinomics (never mind – it’s simply Buhari’s idea of economics) is not working for me. I know we are in a democracy but a firm statement or resolution with the petroleum marketers would have gone a long way I believe. This I did not hear of in the media. At Akure, petrol was sold for 180 Naira and above. The price at 180 was in February 2018. We bought at 200 Naira per litre and some people claim they bought at 250 Naira per litre at some filling stations. Only one filling station sold at 145 and as you might know, the trail of vehicles at such points would leave you with some doubt about joining. ...

Some call it a resignation. I wrote a piece some months ago. You can find it here . I have talked about how things have been with my present work and to be true, I have felt unexcited about the business since work began at Benin in 2014. It seems the only exciting thing was getting a new position and travelling. Every change in position or department was a challenge. I was up to the task but when I got used to it, that was it. I got bored. You can say that is normal, and I do know that it is for some people. But after a few months at BEDC, I began to feel it. There was no invention. Nothing to spice up. It felt rigid. Just the way things used to be. Once, I asked a technician/engineer about using an electrical machine for filling the oil in the transformer and he laughed at me, calling me a lazy guy. Oh, yea! I am that lazy. They used a manual mechanical process that required you to turn the knob in a circular motion till your joints ached. and you still had to continue. I to...