It also sensitizes our minds, and wants us to appreciate the essence of the industry and the impetus that it can bring to the modernization of our economy

We had a bitter quarrel in Dubai, my friend and I, over arts and craft. Flying Emirates from Abuja, we needed to disembark in Dubai and take a connecting flight to Moscow. The waiting in Dubai was about five hours. They say the long wait in Dubai is customary and deliberate. The idea is for the traveller to spend some of his money in Dubai.

MOSCOW, RUSSIA. Among the challenges I had in Russia, the most critical of all were those relating to the equipment I needed for my work. I had brought everything I needed, not hoping to go looking for where to buy this or that in a country where the population neither speaks nor understands English, my lingua franca.

With his latest book, Conversations in Electric Utility Engineering, Solomon Omorodion Uwaifo, one of Nigeria’s renowned authors and professionals, has given us an exposition on the power sector, and Nigeria and the world have been handed an incisive and well-informed insight into the endemic and debilitating power sector that the country has been grappling with over the years.

With a vast number of African octogenarians regarded as repositories of the African cultures, history and values, the challenge has been how to extract or ‘download’ and document the wealth of their experiences and knowledge before they passed on.