Tag: The rise and fall of Nigeria in one generation

If anyone said I’d be fetching water in buckets to cook in this house,” my mother mused, “I’d say, ‘Tell another lie.’” But ‘fetch water’ she does because the government ceased supplying water 20 years ago. The same with electricity whose visitation prompts a scurrying around to plug cell phones, rechargeable lamps, deep freezer, and […]