Just for a brief time the videos of two Nigerian police constabularies went viral. In the first video, the two men demanded money from a female European motorcyclist on a world tour through Nigeria. In the second video, the two men were seen being dismissed from the service.
My friend, let's call him Banga, is adamant that he has to go back to school. Why? At what age? I had asked him, knowing that he would soon be 70. He sat me down and gave me a long explanation. Let me give you a summary of our discussion. The main reason that Banga wants new knowledge is social media or digital social networking technology. Yes, the new world of social media intrigues and confuses him. Somewhere, at some special school, he reasoned, he could find answers.
He responded courteously to my "good morning" greeting as I took my seat. I looked at the young man again. He was staring at the clouds from the window of the aircraft. An empty seat separated us in the largely empty economy section of the aircraft. The young man looked well-fed and well-dressed in a tee shirt over a pair of jeans. His neck chain seemed to be expensive and his wristwatch appeared high-priced too. Perhaps, I thought, he was returning home from college abroad. I introduced myself and he told me his name was Kingsley. "How are you?" I started.