Good to be back

Hi guys,

it is good to be back, as I had restricted access to the internet I have been reading up on the latest developments concerning technology and general news articles since I got back. It interesting how so much can change is such a short timescale.

I have been speaking to a few of my close friends regarding the kidnapping of the 3 year old girl in Nigeria. Initially I was enraged but after some time I was able to understand the plight of the local people who live in putrid and desperate conditions in a sea of vast mineral prosperity. Nigeria is the 5th largest old producing nation in the world and on that account, theoretically Nigeria should be one of they most economically developed nations in the world. Instead Nigeria is a land of underdevelopment, underachievement and a place where regions are controlled by feudalistic tyrannical dictators who selfishly transfer money belonging to their local communities to offshore bank accounts facilitated by western regimes, I guess this is why Nigeria is so corrupt.

During the Abacha regime our president, put in a position to serve the interest of the people had a standing order of $15 million a day to be transferred into his private Swiss bank account.

All im trying to say is that we should not judge a book by its cover, we live in a society that tries to fill headlines with trivial information when we should be more concerned with more life threatening issues such as the crisis in Dafur, how 24,000 people die a day from starvation and half the world population live on less than $2 a day.

There are huge social and economic inequalities in the world we live in. We need to make a change individually and use the advantages we have in the west to benefit the lives of people not as fortunate as we are.

Sorry but I just had to get that off my chest.

If you are interested you can view all my holiday pictures at the following location, http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/femipaul