Nigeria, April 17 -- I bet you didn't know Abike Dabiri. Two factors will make this possible. Either you were not around in Nigeria in the golden era of our Nigerian television girls - the era when being a regular face on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) gave you the golden key to open all doors - or you were somewhere in the villages very far and distant from civilization - many of us were - that included not having access to the television.

O! You didn't know? You didn't know a time was in this clime when seeing a television screen from a distance, was one of the biggest privileges one could get let alone watching it - that people clustered at the windows of homes with television sets to catch a glimpse of Village Headmaster, for i...