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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Nigerian Astronaut will land in space by 2030

I read in the Nigerian Dailies that Nigerian astronaut will land in space by 2030 as said by Ogbonaya Onu. By all account that is a good thing. But first things first. Feed Nigerians, make fuel available for them, create jobs for them, give Nigerians light or on that day as the rocket will be preparing to launch, NEPA might take light and the computers will be down. How will this astronauts make it. Even when they do make it, how will they relay back messages when there is no light. Ok, generators. But the not everybody will see it happen because not every Nigerian has generators and for those who have , Fuel might be too costly for them to buy to watch this great event. By the time they are able to buy fuel the event will be over.
CAVEAT; I know Nigerian politicians are already thinking about the possibilities and opportunities this project might bring, like hiding their loot in space.

Boko haram leader Shekau surrenders

The news making the rounds now is that boko haram leader Shekau has surrendered in a new video. My take on this is if its tru, 1, Let him release the chibok girls. 2, I think he has lost control of the group. 3, He knows the right people to call and surrender to. 4, He's is feeling the pressure of the bombardment, hopes this will slow down the military so they can regroup. 5, I have not seen the video. I have been researching the internet for it. I only saw an audio on YouTube. 6, Nobody should trust him, even when he comes out from the forest with his arms raised. He might be laced with bombs. He has to be stark naked before anybody goes closer to him. 7, And finally, how do we know he is the right one. After all he has been "killed" so many times before

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Is APC really ready for governance?

Its a pity that Nigeria's economic revival by the APC led government is now hinged on speculation and hope. Speculating and hoping that oil price will go up. Everything is amiss in the country. The country's oil Minister who also manages the National oil company has just informed Nigerians that fuel scarcity will last till May and he is not a magician. His exact words were "One of the training I did not receive is that of a MAGICIAN but I am working very hard to ensure some of these issues go away" This is ludicrous coming from one of the men who we trust to manage and revive the country's economy. Nigeria is the highest producer of oil in Africa, yet its people can't find fuel to buy.
CBN on its part looks more confused than the oil industries. Inflation has risen from 9% to 11%. Foreign currencies have skyrocketed, to such a high that I wonder how importers are ever going to make profit. so how does the masses survive, being that we import 95% of everything we use in the country. We hear about bank rates, but there is no foreign currency to give out. The CBN has made policies, reversed the policies, made new policies , reversed them. What impression will this leave in the mind of Foreign Investors, with all these policy reversals.
I don't even want to talk about the epileptic power supply. From 4000 down to 1500megawatts. Isn't that laughable. Nothing seems to be working for this government. I bet President Buhari did not have any economic plans when he was campaigning. He just rode on the wind of change, not knowing what level of complexity the Nigerian economy was. As he fights his corruption war, I wish him luck. But hinging his hope on recovered looted funds helping tackle the deficit in the 2016 budget is a big joke. These political criminals will use court injunctions to delay their trials until Buhari leaves. I hope he is able to institutionalize the fight on corruption before he leaves. I say before he leaves because I know he will not get a second term. Nigerians who put him there are already disillusioned by his governments lack of direction. So come 2019 he will not be returned as the President of the Federal republic of Nigeria. Unless he performs some magic in the economy. But someone in his government has already told us that he is not a magician, I guess Buhari is not too.

Everything

I have been wanting to do this, but as the professional procrastinator that I am I would always say tomorrow. And my tomorrow has lasted for a good five years which was when I opened my fist blog. I posted a few stuff in that blog, found other passion and forgot about it. Five years after I try to locate it and start blogging, but it was no longer there. As if it will be there waiting for me. And here I am again, blogging. I will be writing about everything, Sports, especially football, Politics, Governance, Economy and everything that I come across that is interesting. I am highly opinionated, so certain things I write might be inciting, some might be incisive, but in the end there must be something you can take away from it or nothing at all. The guys at work tell me I am a good listener and I think I give some very good advice sometimes. So if you have any issues, table it to me and I might be able to say something that might help or totally throw you off. Either way I tried and you tried too. There is no harm in trying. In life we will make mistakes, we will fall, but what matters is that we get up, fall again, get up again, so on and so forth until we find a way to stand and never fall again. Good day, Buen dia, Ndewo.

Are mosquitoes relevant?

Can someone tell me why Mosquitoes were created. What purpose they serve to man and animal. If evolution is true, how did mosquitoes evolve? What did they evolve from? Are they eventually going to grow bigger and bigger and bigger? That's a scary thought. I have over a thousand questions on this topic, but I guess it's waste of time talking about it. I will let it go for now, just for now, but I will continue to trouble my head in my silent moment about it. You can contribute to this topic by telling us other things that were created you find irrelevant to our existence.