So, after so much dilly dallying on my part, I finally decided to travel on Sunday but then, I had to put up one last show of my genius; I had to confuse "Village People" by announcing that I'd travel on Saturday... My journey was largely uneventful majorly because I was travelling in a bus that had a more than fair share of nursing mothers strutting their respective breasts in a bid to feed their always hungry babies: this of course lacked the capability of interesting me. Well, things took a twist in my rather boring journey as men of the Nigerian Police Force stopped our bus to carry out a thorough check probably because we looked suspicious (I'm guessing this suspicion was stroked by the fact that my eyes were as red as whatever you can imagine as a result of my "highness" and because I wore a black face cap, a black top and a black trousers). I was searched and fortunately for me, I decided to leave my kitchen knife in school, and I had run out of su...
Yesterday, the President was at his witless and tactless worst. This time, not in Daura but in faraway Germany where in the company of perhaps, the most powerful woman in the world, he stated that his wife, Aisha belongs to "the kitchen and the other room" in response to a question from a journalist on his views about his wife's exclusive interview to The BBC Hausa Service where she implied that the Buhari administration had been hijacked by some anti progressive forces and that she might not campaign for her husband in the event that he decides to seek reelection in 2019. Overtime, most of the President's comments have been unPresidential which might be a good thing considering that his comments affirm his sincerity but on the other hand, his sincere and often unguided comments expose him to incessant attacks by mischief makers(not necessarily well meaning members of the opposition). Needless to say, the President's remarks yesterday have thrown up emergency f...
Just Yesterday, I wrote on my Facebook page that we are all Biafrans, and not a few people saw it as my own endorsement of the Biafran agitation for secession. It was easy for them to draw the conclusion that I had given up on the idea of a United Nigeria. Some expressed their surprise, especially given my earlier disapproval, and sometimes, disgust at the struggle for secession. Well, what they failed to understand is that we have always been Biafrans! By the way, "We are All Biafrans" is the title of a collection of essays by a Social Critic and Activist, Chido Onuma. Before I go on, let me say that the idea of Biafran statehood died far back in 1970, at the end of the Civil war, and it really dawned on us in 2013 with the release of Chinua Achebe 's Civil War Autobiography, "There was A Country ". So, as far as I know, there will never be a country known as Biafra but the struggle for secession and independence by different parts of Nigeria will continu...
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