We grew up to understand that power supply gets interrupted every now and then. We never thought that Electric power could stay for more than 24hours without blinking not to talk of getting interrupted.

Unlike other countries that celebrates 50years of uninterrupted power supply, we celebrate 12 hours of uninterrupted power supply as we rely on Generators.

It was when I grew a bit older , then i was about 11years old when I got to know that some Countries even in Africa don’t experience regular or frequent power interruption as we do experience in Nigeria.

Back then, when there is power there is a kind of joyous feelings we have, when there is NEPA(that’s what we call electricity) everything seems to be working fine. That moment, we are able to iron our school uniforms, Turn on the refrigerator, turn on our Tv etc.

But there is nothing so Heartbreaking as when you are about to watch a Nigerian match ,an intetesting Tv serie,a movie,or you want to play a game and then the power gets interrupted. That occurrence is always followed by a very long hiss and complains.

Even up to today when there is power,, there is this shout of Joy, if you don’t know about the shout, then you havnt stayed in or been to Nigeria. Even a kid as young as 2years shouting “Up NEPA” whenever electricity is being restored.

According to a Nigerian man who travelled to England, he said when he got there, he noticed that there is always electricity and does not get interrupted and then he became afraid thinking that the electricity transformer might develop faults or even knock.This is because, we were thought that power transformers get faulty or may knock due to electricity being constant.

I know that so many of you reading this can relate to what I stated especially if you grew up in Nigeria.

Growing up in Nigeria was Awesome.

http://www.gabafrica.com/2017/11/09/the-joyous-shouts-of-up-nepa/

Lolz.. Up NEPA!!! Even after the change of name..

The funniest part is the insults that follow wen d light gets interrupted