This fuel scarcity sef

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I thought we had seen the last of fuel queues just like bubonic plague, cowries and British rule. But alas, that ugly monster keeps coming back like a cockroach that refuses to die. Sometimes I wonder what fuel touts do while waiting for fuel scarcity. Double as area boys? Pickpockets? It's not their fault really. These unemployed youths have nothing else to do. And a simple law of economics is that there must be demand for their to be supply. People don't seem to have a choice in the matter. N7,000 for 25 litres is absolutely atrocious. It is still a crimical offence to sell fuel on the black market so that means it is also a criminal offence to buy. The government is quite simply put driving all of us to crminality. I do hope the situation gets better by the time I get home. Got to run back to class now.

Forgot to mention that I am at Milton Keynes in the UK for training.

Red means Stop!

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If there is one thing that drives me up the wall and makes me sick to the pit of my stomach it is disobeying traffic lights. I happened to pass through Ogunlana Drive in Surulere in Lagos four times during the last week and stopped at every traffic light along the way. Alas, I was the only one stopping! Everybody simply drove past the traffic light when it showed red. I used to think only commercial buses, (danfos and molues) commercial motor bikes (okadas) and taxis. But ordinary citizens like you and I that abuse the President at every opportunity do it too. The most annoying part of the experience is the fact that everyone abused me for stopping at the red light! I felt really bad at the fact that I was insulted for doing the right thing while doing the wrong thing gets celebrated. We balk at the level of corruption and abuse every public office holder yet we can't stop at a simple traffic light for 2 minutes. It appears we expect a higher moral standard from our leaders than we practise ourselves. This lawlessness has got to stop!

Back to the grind

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A very happy new year to everyone. I just got back to work yesterday and immediately got swamped. It's back to the grind for me. Some lucky devils took the whole week off and will be resuming next week. This has lightened the mad traffic on Lagos roads. You can actually drive to most places within 30 minutes. Why can't it always be like this. I wonder what everyone is doing in Lagos. What am I doing here you ask? Earning a living! However, if you really want to live and not just exist, Abuja is the place to be. Also, I had to move house over the holiday so it was sort of a stressful period for me.

I'm really looking forward to the elections this year as this will mark a turning point in our nations history. I got a text message from KORO 2007 campaign organisation. I haven't seen a single poster for Musiliu Obanikoro. Meanwhile I can't get enough of Babatunde Fashola's campaign song, "Baba ni Governor". If anything else he deserves to win for his catchy campaign tune! Anyways, more on the Lagos State gubernatorial race later. Got to run for a meeting.

Happy New Year!

PS: Stumbled on this interesting article
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/chris-ngwodo/why-nigeria-is-not-yet-a-democracy.html