Ok! Its been a while, haven't come around here but the world has not stopped moving. While we are still trying to wrap our hands round one major event, another happens immediately after and we start again, it's a never ending cycle. For me the major event of the past weeks is the Boston Marathon bombing. Now, answers are sought as to what motivated two young men and Tsarnaev brothers; Dzhokhar, 19, and Tamerlan, 26 to plant twin bombs at the finish line of the Marathon injuring countless individuals and killing three including an 8 year old boy, Martin Richard; Chinese graduate student, Lingzi Lu and 29 year old Kristle Campbell.

While the world attempts to understand exactly what went wrong, it once again brings to the fore, the issue of home-grown terrorists with apparently no outside backing and the vulnerability of public places. Only God knows how many like individuals are plotting and planning another episode even while i type/you read. God help us!

We also had the Texas explosion at a fertilizer plant that killed scores of people, the cause of which is still being investigated. One silver lining was the story of the man who was at the venue of the Boston bombings, escaped death or injury and went back home to Texas, only to witness that explosion! Mr Joe Berti definitely has a lot to thank God for!

“It’s a miracle,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. “People keep saying, ‘Don’t you feel unlucky?’ and I was actually the opposite — saying not only do I not feel unlucky, but I feel blessed that my wife could be 10 yards from the explosion and not have a scratch.

So in the midst of all the chaos, there still so much to be thankful for.

On a lighter note, in Nigeria, number portability has finally been introduced. with none other then Saka (Afeez Oyetoro) as the first symbol of porting. He ported from advertising for Etisalat to MTN (from green to yellow). All of a sudden the advert is the talk of the town, the new oga@thetop-like craze. I loved the concept behind the advert. Simply communicated and Saka executed perfectly with his our port-ing moves! :) However, several questions have also arisen about violation of contract terms since he was advertising for two telcos in pretty much the same market. My take? Both parties would definitely have examined the issues of liability before getting entangled together, if they dont have a problem, why should i now? Them go pay me commission ni? Cannot take Panadol for another's headache jor! =D


Additional reports from thestar.com World



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