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Have you ever seen employees oppressed the employers?  A country/state where you can't have a peaceful protest without armed forces  interference. A president can call elected people "thugs" but when they respond they are invited by SSS. How can you count yourself "lucky" based on other people's misfortune? On January 1st 2012 at about 3pm, I read on twitter that fuel subsidy has been removed meaning Nigerians have to buy petrol at a "premium rate". I say Premium rate because we are an oil producing country, and we are buying petrol at about $1 for a country where many live below a dollar. Like others, I took social network sites and started ranting.  You can see how fuel increase will affect the average Nigerian. What are the pros and cons of oil subsidy? A friend said Nigerians should stop complaining and that we should think deep.  See conversation below "ÀSÀKÉ-Ọ̀KÍN: which deep ÀSÀKÉ-Ọ̀KÍN: in a corrupt country Teejay: It wil

I was supposed to post this on 31st but my internet wasn’t connecting I have been working on single parent, diary of a Lagos learner and Jobless Lagosian. Guess bloggers also experience blogger(writer)'s block. My last post in 2011 is going to have a mix of everything. I started 2011 with high hopes, went through the ups and downs, met wonderful people, lost a friend I was just getting to know, finished NYSC, learnt a lot in my place of primary assignment, kept in touch with my camp friends, may the souls of all the fallen heroes rest in peace, we lost a number of corp members to election violence. 2 introduction ceremonies for my cousins, 1 marriage, new baby... Am thankful for this year. Sometimes, we think there is nothing to be thankful for because we don’t have spouses, cars, kids, the list goes on and on.. Think about this, there's a person who woke up yesterday and discovered his entire family has been wiped out by Boko Haram, another person couldn't sleep b