The Learner

Muhsin Ibrahim @muhsin234 I have not been busier, more disturbed, or more unorganised for a very, very long time than I have been in the past few days. Life is often a trial, futile and temporal. Thanks to Allah for creating us the way we are: oxymoronically determined, forgetful and seldom ignorant of what is going on around us and beyond. It’s His mercy. Otherwise, life would be uninteresting, tiring, and perhaps worthless. The Trial We ‘celebrated’ this Eid-el-Kabir with literally empty pockets. Most of us thought the  September salaries would be paid on the 24th, the day it fell, when salaries are  typically   paid . It wasn’t. Moreover, it is known to all that wages are paid before the due date if the time coincides with any feast, such as Eid or Christmas. More so, being President Muhammadu Buhari is Muslim, some people thought, erroneously though, that he would ‘ favour’ his fellow faithful and pay the salaries. He didn’t. They (we, in fact) now wa...