Abuja

In 1977 Abuja was a graveyard. Looked like a magic city of ghosts. In 1997 Abuja was abuzz. The word was it was "nice." But remember, in '77, Lagos, too, was the toast of Africa. Could not be maintained. I've suggested, very eagerly, that Abuja is not to be given city status in my ontology until we ascertain that it lives off Nigerian soil. The oil used for its power, is it imported too, like the rest of the country, or do we quota out a share of that which is to be exported for dollars so that Abuja is a real capital? The problem is transparency. We can't find out the information we need from the Nigerian government, and the opposition is too stupid to be detailed or precise. Take oil, for example. Everyone says to themselves and their visible cousins, "there are no jobs for our graduates, we even import oil for domestic consumption." Do they do the math? It's very simple. Why does Nigeria import oil for domestic consumption yet export it to the U.S. for foreign exchange? Aside from it being the biggest 419 in history (Ha! Ameh! You oughta be ashaymed :-)
evidently our refineries are operating at negligible capacity. Why? Because maintaining them is prohibitively expensive since the components have to be imported too. Steel age. We can't even cast down some nuts and bolts to keep our oil relevant to us within the country. It is because you do not understand what I am saying that you do not vomit in disgust. This is a country of grown men and women. Oh, no one understands me. The ones who claim they do must be racist because they qualify this disbelievable state of affairs as being contextual to "Nigeria" as if bad is not bad wherever bad is found. And our graduates with no jobs? That is another discussion, of a university system that fails to find relevance in the lives of the denizens of the nation because Nigerians are too intellectually lazy to replace the advances in European science with necessary advances in African perspectives in European science--at least. I feel very lonely... I wish I had a gurl to keep me warm, who understood what I was saying. But most these days are trapped in shallow vanities. I need a real woman.