While doing my articleship with the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works in Waterloo, London, two particular incidents provided comic relief to my existence though the second incident was more of a disaster than comedy both to myself and a close friend, Tony, who was on the receiving end. As …
In 2016 I wrote two posts, ‘Who Will Save Nigeria From Ghost Workers?’ and ‘Ghosts Everywhere’. On 23rd April, 2016, in Vanguard newspaper, the Bureau of Public Enterprises said they saved Nigeria N185 billion naira by weeding out 65,000 ghost workers. That same month in another Vanguard newspaper on 20th …
My first Christmas in England had been spent in Coventry in the house of a pen friend- see my earlier post, Christmas in Coventry. Before I left Nigeria I had not known about the pen friend phenomenon. But in England I learnt that the European could be most curious about …
I decided to call and congratulate my eighty four year old senior colleague, a man we all call Alhaji, a gentleman if ever there was one, during the last sallah celebrations. I expressed regret that I was unable to be at the tennis club where we all play to eat …
