Short & Sharp
Is PHCN alive? Perhaps it’s because The Avengers are blowing up oil in the Niger Delta? Or is because there’s no water in our dams? Whatever the case, electricity supply has become rather pathetic in a place like Kuje in the Federal Capital Territory. Months ago, we enjoyed as much as 15 hours of power […]
Is PHCN alive?
Perhaps it’s because The Avengers are blowing up oil in the Niger Delta? Or is because there’s no water in our dams? Whatever the case, electricity supply has become rather pathetic in a place like Kuje in the Federal Capital Territory. Months ago, we enjoyed as much as 15 hours of power supply at least. Now, there’s hardly an hour of electricity supply in a 48 hours. The government needs to look into this landslide in power supply. Now that times are hard, you can hardly store anything in your deep freezer and fuel is no longer easy to use for generators.
Yakubu Martins, Kuje, FCT.
About that ‘not fasting’ bit in Kakuri
It is really funny. News reports this week, both in print and off and a video on social media revealed that a clash between Emmanuel, the non-Muslim who was said to have been attacked because he was not fasting was not the real story. This just shows how Nigeria is, where everything is quickly hinged on religion. So it happened that the young men had a clash for a totally different reason. What impressed me is that the people of Kakuri, Kaduna, did not just sit down and let bad things be said about their community, but set out to clarify it. “We are not known for religious” crises they said. Nigerians should learn a lesson from this.
John Gayus, Abuja.
Why is suicide on the rise?
It will be easy to say why there’s a rise in suicide across the country; it is because the economy is bad and people are suffering. But no, there’s more to this. Young people, even teenagers now take their lives. Recently on Daily Trust of June 16, a 16-year-old attempted to take her life after consuming a poisonous liquid substance in Dutse, Abuja. Perhaps we should take a deeper look. Are parents taking care of their children the way they should or just giving birth and letting fate decide? Something must be wrong somewhere.
Bolatito Ahmed Adeyinka, Ikeja, Lagos.
Regulating preaching in Kaduna
I had once kicked against regulating religious preaching in Kaduna. But when one carefully observes how religion is used as a tool of dominance, then something must be done. For example, there is no reason why a church should block half a street on Sundays and a mosque use loud external speakers in a residential area to preach and call for prayers five times a day. We are in a modern age where people know what they want and all these propaganda don’t work, if they ever did.
Adamu Abdullahi Mairago, U/Kanawa, Kaduna.