Hello peeps.
I took 2 days off from work to prepare for a good friend’s wedding this weekend and it’s an interesting time as my division at work is going on a team building retreat this weekend too. The retreat is holding at Hermitage Resort in Lekki with mouth watering prospects and fun. But I will never exchange the joy of being present at this friend’s wedding because this is an institution that God loves so much and the foundation of a great nation.
I am very happy for Emmanuel Oluwatosin and his beautiful bride as they become one on Saturday. They are a testimony to the fact that God is alive and the sacredness of the marriage institution especially with the way youths nowadays get pregnant and throw away the chance of a wonderful wedding. This is also to shout out to Mr. & Mrs Owoeye after their wedding on Sunday; abeg how the honeymoon dey go, hope the honey in the moon is increasing? Just kidding.
And I have to say a big Happy birthday to my main man, don G – ‘Gbenga Sesan. I am using this opportunity to thank God for your life, may you live long, amin ashe. May nobody ever snatch the wife of your dream dem no even fit. May Olodumare continue taking you forward. My brother man, enjoy your ride to the top….. no yawa, no kain, anyhow yaga yaga joooooooooo.
On a sad note, I have to close this as I heard an ugly rumour of a political assasination, details are still sketchy but we will get to that soon.
CIAO.

I do not use MTN and I work for a competitor in the Telecoms industry but that is not the reason I am writing this piece. I am just being objective and putting voice to something that the NCC and the consumer parliament should address.
I sometimes buy MTN cards to send to people and the experience have not been a palatable one at all. The first time I noticed it; I was very surprised and wondered why the Consumer Protection Agency has not swamped on the company. I remember that the federal government banned the importation of overseas-made scratch card and that was a welcome decision to Nigerians considering the issue of foreign exchange. Other Telecoms companies started making their scratch card with good quality materials but a particular company wanted to prove that nothing good can come out of Nigeria, hence their decision to make very low quality cards.
MTN recharge cards when scratched are often useless because you would have scratched the pin number off and then have to call their customer care line to recover the pin. The last time I bought their card, the vendor offered to scratch it for me with a system he has discovered to be full-proof – He uses a cloth and kerosene to rub the coating
I also saw another person using chalk to rub the coating off and I could not help but laugh. Cards of other operators are still being scratched the same way without these problems; so what is MTN trying to prove to us?
I wonder if they ask for feedbacks from their subscribers and the general public.
This must stop and the NCC should take this as a violation of consumers’ rights.

We are at a breaking point in this country at present. The kinda things I see everyday are alarming and of serious consequences. Armed robbery is on the increase, corruption is still a big threat and baba God will not leave us alone.
There is a big war going on now between the perceived lucky ones and the supposed unlucky ones in our society. The riff-raff (permit my language) on the street is very angry at the simple elite who works himself to death to earn his salary and drives a simple car with a mobile phone in his hand at all times. What an irony, I wonder why the downtrodden are at each other’s throat and not fighting the real enemies – the big bellied thieves who wield power like their birth right.
I know what I am saying and until we realize the threat, things will never change in this country. A friend narrated a very pathetic story to me last week and I was speechless (Not like MJ of course!). He went to collect money in a bank and as he left, two young men followed him and another guy from the bank; the end result – the other guy was killed as well as the Okada man without any struggle and I hear you asking why killing him if he did not struggle with the thieves? The answer – anger! They can not imagine why the guy has a bank account and they do not, very sad. My friend escaped by the whiskers with his life and money intact but the story shook me and I was really afraid. These kinda scenarios are now very rampant and are common place occurrences. There are too many hungry and angry people; they do not have access to those who brought poverty to this country but to fellow strugglers who were just more fortunate and maybe more hardworking than they are.
But I know that no matter what, we will reach the breaking point one day soon and all will be clearer. 2007 will be a great decider and I am trusting the “One who knows the beginning from the end” to help us out ‘cos only him can do it.
Enjoy the rest of the week.