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just a few things...

as you probably noticed, writing a blog when you've got a full time job is quite like losing weight. you are revved up at the beginning and actually maybe lose a few pounds but then after two weeks, you realize you don't exactly look like kate moss or tyson beckford and you decide that a tiny bit of that chocolate cake won't completely ruin anything???? and then four months later, you add twice the weight you lost. how do i know that right, well lets just say there's a reason i only take headshots. lol. a few days back, the Federal Government finally admitted something we all knew long ago...that they would not be meeting their much publicized 6,000 MW of electricity generation for the end of December 2009. For some reason, of all the ministers in every cabinet, the minister responsible for power and electrcity always seems to have need to brag about his abilities to find the solution to the lasting power problem and i don't think the new minister learnt anything fr...

of respect and the like

i'm gonna make this pretty quick because there's really nothing worth troubling one's mind overly today. for those of you who don't live in nigeria, or who live under a rock in nigeria, here's whats been happening pretty quick: 1. the president went to saudi arabia to see his doctors. news reports have it that this would be his 4th trip in three months on health grounds and if you have seen his pictures in recent times, you will agree that he doesn't look like the bastion of health. 2. tanker drivers in abuja have gone on strike because their working conditions are not convenient. 3. every tom dick and harry is running a christmas promotion and noone seems to be going shopping or buying anything of any significant worth this christmas. 4. banks have steathily relieved themselves of their staff over the past few months, and contrary to what you may be reading (or in this case, not reading) in the news, the unemployment rates have indeed skyrocketed. of all the i...