in marketing speak, a space holder is an item used to fill out the portion of a graphic that you intend to place text of other graphic when the real text is ready. its just to identify that "something will be there in the final version"...it could also refer to stuff you use to fill out forms and diaries to meet a certain quota. its pretty obvious in blogs, when they run stories like "britney wears fake fur" or "justin bieber cuts hair short"...it becomes clear that its a slow news day and they must write something! anything.
so this blog post right here is one of those spaceholders for me. i have absolutely nothing interesting to write about but just tiny pieces of stuff floating around in my life that i might as well just put down, so here goes:
1. Okonjo - Iweala has been sworn in as nigeria's finance minister. who was the former one again? you know, its weird that we think nigerians pay no heed to good works of noble people, because the excitement that greets the appointment of certain persons indicate that they are on the good side of history. The woman is the single most popular finance minister we have had in this country in the last decade and it is not for nothing that she is known. In October 2005, she led the Nigerian team that struck a deal with the Paris Club, a group of bilateral creditors, to pay a portion of Nigeria's external debt (US $12 billion) in return for an $18 billion debt write-off. Prior to the partial debt payment and write-off, Nigeria spent roughly US $1 billion every year on debt servicing, without making a dent in the principal owed. she also started the practice of publishing federal allocations to the states in the newspapers for all the world to see. Okonjo-Iweala is a Managing Director of the World Bank. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Global Financial Integrity and on the Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute. Nigeria deserves her in leadership position and we're glad to have our best brains back.
2. Augustus Aikhomu is reportedly dead. RIP. From indications, he was a good man. However, he was the "military Vice-President" (what on earth was that?) under IBB from 1986 to 1993. Anything that has to have IBB in the same sentence is not relevant to me. Thats that about that.
3. Dominique Strauss-Khan has had all charges against him dropped. After having to resign from his job under embarassing circumstances, and the media furor surrounding his entire life in the past few months plus the mad bail bond posted by his loving wife (who i hope will not divorce him after all this), prosecution determined that due to the hotel maid's many "falsehoods" (nice way of saying she is a gaddamned liar) about her background (she claims she was gang raped in her homecountry of guinea) financial standing and other relevant matters which weakens their case tremendously, it will be near impossible to convince a jury of Mr. Kahn's guilt in the case. This totally affirms my belief that when a scandal breaks, the richer, seemingly more powerful and more embarassed party is most likely the victim. Most accusers only come forward when they are not "paid away" for acts they willingly participated in. sad sad sad...but thats the life of poor ghetto hoodrats.
4. I'm not even going to talk about Justice Salami and the political shenanigans around him. interference by anyone in the workings of the judiciary must be resisted at all cost to preserve the independence of the judiciary. however, as i do not have all the facts of this matter, i shall reserve my comments.
5. The organizers of the Nigerian Blog Awards have decided to tweak the voting mechanism of the awards for the 2012 awards. This is in response to the barrage of opinion they received on the need to have an award that reflects the very best of nigerian blogging as against the blogger with the most friends (or fake email addresses to vote for himself in all categories)
6. The Nigeria Police is recruiting. as someone wrote in http://www.saharareporters.com/, "the question flying from member of the public is whether this exercise would be different from known tradition where police jobs are doled out as compensation to thugs and “area boys” that worked for politicians during the electioneering campaign". I can think of a million jokes to make of this, but I won't (cos surprise surprise, I believe in the police. its a tough job to do, they work very hard - as you will see below, the pay is crap and it is a victim of the corrupt political system). if you're looking for a job, please apply. we need more graduates to join the police and turn the tide of illiterate stupidity that the current force is known for. and yes, the benefits include collecting 20 naira from unwilling motorists every single damn day. nuff said.
see y'all around peeps. let me know if you'd like more spaceholders (also called rounding up the news) going forward.
so this blog post right here is one of those spaceholders for me. i have absolutely nothing interesting to write about but just tiny pieces of stuff floating around in my life that i might as well just put down, so here goes:
3. Dominique Strauss-Khan has had all charges against him dropped. After having to resign from his job under embarassing circumstances, and the media furor surrounding his entire life in the past few months plus the mad bail bond posted by his loving wife (who i hope will not divorce him after all this), prosecution determined that due to the hotel maid's many "falsehoods" (nice way of saying she is a gaddamned liar) about her background (she claims she was gang raped in her homecountry of guinea) financial standing and other relevant matters which weakens their case tremendously, it will be near impossible to convince a jury of Mr. Kahn's guilt in the case. This totally affirms my belief that when a scandal breaks, the richer, seemingly more powerful and more embarassed party is most likely the victim. Most accusers only come forward when they are not "paid away" for acts they willingly participated in. sad sad sad...but thats the life of poor ghetto hoodrats.
6. The Nigeria Police is recruiting. as someone wrote in http://www.saharareporters.com/, "the question flying from member of the public is whether this exercise would be different from known tradition where police jobs are doled out as compensation to thugs and “area boys” that worked for politicians during the electioneering campaign". I can think of a million jokes to make of this, but I won't (cos surprise surprise, I believe in the police. its a tough job to do, they work very hard - as you will see below, the pay is crap and it is a victim of the corrupt political system). if you're looking for a job, please apply. we need more graduates to join the police and turn the tide of illiterate stupidity that the current force is known for. and yes, the benefits include collecting 20 naira from unwilling motorists every single damn day. nuff said.
see y'all around peeps. let me know if you'd like more spaceholders (also called rounding up the news) going forward.
Comments
About the Nigerian Blog Awards. I think that's a good plan. From the last results, it was clear that they needed to make some serious adjustments to the voting process.
Concerning the Nigerian Police. LOLLLL! I wish them good luck in their recruitment exercise. They;re going to need it : )
Have a good weekend
Is that 1st police guy sleeping or in repose. nawa!