I’m at work, trying to wrap up a few jobs and even though the strike is in Day 2, I really cant say I’ve suffered much. Thanks to a fuel tank and judicious usage of its contents. Its amazing how ‘dry’ lagos is. Hardly any movement and getting to work in a record 24 minutes [...]
Archive > June 2007
hmmm Happy news?
I was just thinking of commenting about the Supreme Court’s ruling and in effect reinstatement of Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra state. I heard later the next day and I was overjoyed. Kai! seemed to me that the fortunes of Nigeria were changing. The ‘high and mighty’ Andy Uba could actually be pulled down! It [...]
Adichie wins Orange Prize!
29 Year Old Nigerian Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie wins the Orange Prize for Literature. Up against this year’s Man Booker prize winner, Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss, and a US bestseller, Anne Tyler’s Digging to America, her epic on the Biafran War ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ won her the prize. Her first novel, Purple [...]
My Teachers!
Speaking with my brother-in-law yesterday about Secondary school and especially the teachers one encountered there reminded me that instead of just talking, I should say Thank you. Well, a thank you via my blog is one I doubt will reach them but I guess it’ll encourage everyone who had a teacher or teachers who made [...]