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The Cement Armada of 1975

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Sometimes in 1970, there was the six days war between Israel and the Arabs, this war led to quadrupling increase in oil price over night. All of a sudden Nigeria became rich with a lot of money to the extent that Federal government of Nigeria in her magnanimity ordered the immediate effect implementation increase of salary for all the civil servants(Udoji salary awards,  1974). All civil servants' salary were doubled. Of course with the new found wealth a lot of people wanted build their own houses but there was severe cement shortage in the country. The demand for cement and other building materials was astronomical, under pressure from the military the government committed itself to a massive Barrack building program and thus ordered 16 million metric tonnes of cement for the building of Army Barracks alone, amounting to 80% of the country’s total cement import. Although all Nigerian Ports combined could only handle 6.5 million tonnes of general cargo per annum, the governme...

Love is not Enough

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Kunle has been in a committed relationship for 5 years with Abigail who happens to be an unemployed graduate of struggling parents. Kunle who is still trying to find his feet can't provide anything more for Abigail except affection but Abigail needs more than that..she needs a job,finance to start her dream business and money to take care of little things that matter to a lady and fair enough..Abigail is no money freak neither is she materialistic but she is just so unfortunate to find herself in a jobless situation and frustration is setting in. But as fate would have it,Abigail..meets Daniel..a gainfully employed bachelor who expressed deep desire to have her as his woman. Abigail suddenly found herself caught between the true desire she has for Kunle and her deep need for financial succor so she throws caution to the wind and starts dating Daniel and eventually got married to Daniel leaving Kunle with a terrible heart break which made Kunle swore never to give his heart to any l...