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 from the late Bola Ige. except one is to believe that all the previous ministers before him were just imbecilic vegetables, then maybe some caution should be exercised before promising us all "El dorado" when one assumes office in the power ministry. so anyways, we're back where we've always been. at some point maybe it will just become clear that community power generation (as with policing, education and any other public service need) is the way out. pure and simple.
so just a few days back, i sat down again to catch up on the "contentless" programming called nigerian television viewing and as always, they didn't dissapoint. there was this well-shot and well-directed video about a woman who's husband-to-be is fond of getting things at the last minute, including fuel in his car on the way to his own wedding in church. so for some reason, in order to capture the moment, she decides to bring the church to the filling station and conduct the wedding there. classic case of mountain going to mohammed right? right. okay, so here's my grouse. firstly, i've seen that ad somewhere before (and will post up as soon as i lay my hand on it)...considering that the message the ad is supposed to pass accross is to have us all thinking about the gains of deregulation, to be honest it only got me thinking to remind my driver to get fuel for monday morning just in case there is a scarcity as depicted in the ad. for one thing, that ad does not connect with the average nigerian because we all know that in this part of the world, the bride and groom do absolutely nothing on their wedding day except sit pretty and smile throughout. so it beats me silly to see a groom at a filling station in the first place...did his groomsmen die that very morning? or was he such a bad fellow that noone agreed to be his bestman? darn.
i personally think the government is making the matter even worse with that silly advert that does not connect to the average nigerian and says little or nothing about the real issues nigerians are kicking against in this planned deregulation.
still on ads though, i hear this "house to home" advert on the radio station on my way home (i think its beat FM). it just makes me sing along. really nice. thats the sort of voice that should release a full album and not these charlatans. by the way, has anyone heard a rapper called KEL? just stumbled on her yesterday, and so far so excellent.
there is intense fuel scarcity going on at the moment, the president is still away in saudi arabia receiving treatment for a heart ailment and sacked ex-bankers are still out and about trying to get a job. with the coming christmas celebration, it looks like needless doom and gloom but you know what they say "nothing can dampen the christmas spirit in nigeria cos we've been through everything" (okay i made that up). i have already received some amazing christmas gifts this year already and cannot wait to paint the town red...on my couch watching Tv and playing PS3. here's wishing y'all a merry christmas come what may and a fantastic 2010.
se ya later peeps.
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 from the late Bola Ige. except one is to believe that all the previous ministers before him were just imbecilic vegetables, then maybe some caution should be exercised before promising us all "El dorado" when one assumes office in the power ministry. so anyways, we're back where we've always been. at some point maybe it will just become clear that community power generation (as with policing, education and any other public service need) is the way out. pure and simple.
so just a few days back, i sat down again to catch up on the "contentless" programming called nigerian television viewing and as always, they didn't dissapoint. there was this well-shot and well-directed video about a woman who's husband-to-be is fond of getting things at the last minute, including fuel in his car on the way to his own wedding in church. so for some reason, in order to capture the moment, she decides to bring the church to the filling station and conduct the wedding there. classic case of mountain going to mohammed right? right. okay, so here's my grouse. firstly, i've seen that ad somewhere before (and will post up as soon as i lay my hand on it)...considering that the message the ad is supposed to pass accross is to have us all thinking about the gains of deregulation, to be honest it only got me thinking to remind my driver to get fuel for monday morning just in case there is a scarcity as depicted in the ad. for one thing, that ad does not connect with the average nigerian because we all know that in this part of the world, the bride and groom do absolutely nothing on their wedding day except sit pretty and smile throughout. so it beats me silly to see a groom at a filling station in the first place...did his groomsmen die that very morning? or was he such a bad fellow that noone agreed to be his bestman? darn.
i personally think the government is making the matter even worse with that silly advert that does not connect to the average nigerian and says little or nothing about the real issues nigerians are kicking against in this planned deregulation.
still on ads though, i hear this "house to home" advert on the radio station on my way home (i think its beat FM). it just makes me sing along. really nice. thats the sort of voice that should release a full album and not these charlatans. by the way, has anyone heard a rapper called KEL? just stumbled on her yesterday, and so far so excellent.
there is intense fuel scarcity going on at the moment, the president is still away in saudi arabia receiving treatment for a heart ailment and sacked ex-bankers are still out and about trying to get a job. with the coming christmas celebration, it looks like needless doom and gloom but you know what they say "nothing can dampen the christmas spirit in nigeria cos we've been through everything" (okay i made that up). i have already received some amazing christmas gifts this year already and cannot wait to paint the town red...on my couch watching Tv and playing PS3. here's wishing y'all a merry christmas come what may and a fantastic 2010.
se ya later peeps.
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