Of minimum wage, tortoiseshell and Akpabio's threat, by Hassan Gimba, anipr The Arbiter  “Unlike the stomach, the brain doesn’t alert you when it’s empty.” - Arabic proverb. There are many tales about how the tortoise got its cracked back. One with various versions stands out. It is the one in which the tortoise had two geese as friends. In the Buddhist scriptures, the tortoise fell from the sky and split in two as the geese were taking it to their home in the Himalayas. According to the story, the geese held a stick in...