No more lights out for Zambia! The country’s power utility has announced an end to the power rationing that the country had been experiencing. It says households and companies countrywide will now enjoy 24 hours of power supply without any disruptions.
Author Ayòbámi Adébáyò says citizens are fed up of being sold shortA new novel by award-winning Nigerian novelist Ayòbámi Adébáyò offers a vision of what is at stake as Nigerians head to the polls in about a fortnight.
Adébáyò's book, A Spell of Good Things, takes a close look at politics in Nigeria through the eyes of a teenage boy from a poor family and a young female doctor from a rich family. "That is reflected in what is happening right now. People literally cannot get cash out of the bank even though they have money in the bank... what many people have resorted to is having to buy money, it's ridiculous," she toldQuote Message: It's a trade...
Quote Message: That's what she's rejecting at the beginning of the book. She would rather have somebody in government who is ready to do something she's interested in."
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