The Parable Of The Cockroach And Nigeria
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- Published on Sunday, 19 May 2013 13:38
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The Edos say “Ehemwen wÿÿ iren te gua so ihuan, ren te vbe gua ku, sokpan ukpÿ iye-ÿkhÿkhÿ ÿre ÿ ma gie iren ku iku iren vbe avan”. A cockroach knows how to sing and dance, but it is the hen who prevents it from performing its art during the day. (English). When my son was a baby one of his scary moments was seeing a roach, he would
Drawing The Curtain On Nigeria...
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- Published on Sunday, 12 May 2013 16:20
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No matter how stout, long and turgid a penis. It's erection can not intimidate a vagina. In short, the rise and fall of a penis was masterminded by a vagina. Local axiom. In the last few weeks, I have personally looked at the nation called Nigeria, I have carefully x-rayed thoughts, opinions, listened carefully to comments, and with deep
A Nigerian Story of My Oga At The Top
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- Published on Sunday, 31 March 2013 17:40
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There is no manner of death that is inconvenient for the chicken.(One is game for whatever propositions might be made to one). The phrase 'oga at the top', some forthnight went virile. We all know how the NSDC Lagos state commandant and 'Channels TV Journalists' exchange resulted in that now virile four-word-axiom. We have since
Nigerians And That Tinted Glass Mentality
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- Published on Sunday, 28 April 2013 14:05
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Where there are two/three/four and more rich Nigerian politicians/leaders there is laughter in their midst, and often it is a tinted atmosphere. #amebo# For purpose of this essay, let me quickly say irrespective of all that the traffic acts stipulates, what the police says and police did not say on the tinted glass matter, in summary, a layman's
Don't Change This Nigeria
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- Published on Monday, 18 March 2013 16:15
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“I am not upset, I am not upset!” Yet a grown man swears angrily six times because of last night's pounded yam. Cassandra in Greek legend, I recall, was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it. So the pain that
The Playground Called National Assembly
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- Published on Sunday, 21 April 2013 14:10
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Watching Nigeria's parliamentary sessions is like watching a public primary school's classroom at break time. It's a picture of absolute bedlam; delinquent adults jumping seats, throwing paper missiles, poking each other in the ribs, laughing, joking, singing and passing candies and biscuits around while the class teacher wakes up once in a while to
The Ghosts Amongst Us In Nigeria
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- Published on Monday, 11 March 2013 11:04
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“I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.”― Beth Gutcheon, More Than You Know. “...the ghosts you chase you never catch.”― John Malkovich
2015: Conversation With Usman
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- Published on Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:06
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Laifi'n babba, rowa, laiii'n yaro, kiwuya. (The boy complains that his master is stingy, the master that his boy is lazy.) Usman, that's his name, he is responsible for the yam we eat in my house, we all call him mai doya (yam seller). He doesn't possess your typical classroom education, but he's well versed in the yam business, the
"Daddy, Nigeria Is A Lie"
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- Published on Monday, 04 March 2013 12:53
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The leper said two things, one of them being a lie; he said after he had struck his child with his palm, he also pinched him severely with his fingernails Recently in a small family reunion I was invited, I watched as a father told narrated a movie to the kids, unknown to him, the kids had viewed the same film. He went about mumbling the
That Nigerian Child...Of Ours
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- Published on Sunday, 07 April 2013 14:54
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"it is 9 o'clock, do you know where your children are?" Frank Olizeh, popular retired NTA anchorman || My working title for this week's admonition to beloved Nigerians ordinarily was 'The Nigerian Child', sadly as I reflected I found it difficult to even define the term anymore, just like the 'Nigerian Dream', a lot of things seems to be eroding Nigeria,
The Resurrection Of Dame Lazarina Patience Faka
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- Published on Sunday, 24 February 2013 15:08
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With the lyrics of a song by Carmelo Domenic Licciardello known by his stage name, Carman [see below]. I start this week's admonition...very quickly let me say that 'Lazarina' is the female version of the name Lazarus as coined by me. Lazarus is the subject of a miracle of resurrection in the Christian Holy Book the bible:
