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Do we celebrate mediocrity and inefficiency in Nigeria?
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Do we celebrate mediocrity and inefficiency in Nigeria?

Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), in any single day would always find reasons to interrupt the electricity supply. One would think maybe it is because of maintenance but this would last for hours, sometimes more than ten hours.

When you begin to think all is well, they would interrupt the supply within seconds and then bring it back in another split second, just for the glory of interruption and inefficiency!

If a neighboring West African Country could celebrate a whole 365 days of efficient power supply, why can’t Nigeria celebrate a single day without power failure?

Is it that the staffs of PHCN are bored with their work that they would trip it off every now and then just to keep up the unbeaten records of frequent interruption and inefficiency?


Walk into the banking premises of a reputable bank in Benin City, Edo State and you would be pleased to see ATM machines everywhere, for easy access to quick cash in case you have emergencies to spend on. But mind you, there is no single day that you won’t see crowds and line-up of people all waiting to use the poor machines, which in some quarters looks like my abandoned fairly used tokumbo T.V.

There is never a day that I don’t find people milling up in line waiting to use the machines and there is never a day, that half of these machines don’t break down and their stomachs turned inside-out like sick crocodiles.

January 23, 2008 | 8:03 AM Comments  0 comments

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