WITHOUT any care in the world, she wrapped some boiled groundnuts she hoped to sell. But precariously dangling just a few metres above her head were electricity cables nestling precariously on an obviously distressed pole already tilting towards one side.

"Why did you choose this spot to do your business, or haven’t you noticed that this electricity pole is not standing well,” Saturday Tribune asked this groundnut seller, identified simply as Agnes.

"I am well aware of that,” she said, with a smile; and for a few seconds she shifted her gaze from her wares to the un-insulated electric wires above her head.

"But here in Lagos, you can only count on God’s grace to stay alive, because no matter how much you try to avoid danger, you find it staring at you in various forms,” added Agnes, who lives and does her business at the Ogba area of Lagos.

Perhaps Agnes was right, as danger, under many guises, including defective electricity poles and worn ... Czytaj więcej »