In Recent times, say since last year November, Nigeria has continued to feature in the global news consistently. The era of the same ol' story in the dailies changed with the emergence of new escapades, sexcapedes, fruadcapedes, cabalcapades, muttalabcapedes. Name it all just remember to put a 'capades' as its suffix and it becomes a normal Nigerian story.
I guess it all started November, or is it before that ?, probably, coz Mr President was away in Saudi Arabia commisioning a University of science and tech o'er there, whilst our educational institutions lay in shambles. Can u imagine?. But he came back 'early'enough to tell us the state of things and resume back to office. I guess my fellas in the public institutions stayed home for 4 months or so...(N.B.: dt's more than a whole semester o). Then Alhaji Musa Yar'adua went MIA, we all thought it was a joke when the countdown began. Nigerians in their legendary happy mood laughed it off am sure some were even rotflol.
Some shameless excuses were conjured for the ailing President by what was then reffered to as the 'kitchen cabinet', the countdown went 4rm 1 day to x days, and probably in a 'Christlike' manner he declared 'I am coming soon and my reward is with me'...Like the son of man, Our president also decided that no man shall know the day He'll come(excecpt maybe Turai who is a woman anyway) and it would be Like a thief in the Night.
A whole lot of resources was wasted looking for our president, a group of expert 'siphoners' were sent on an expedition to retrieve the missing President as if he was some 'gold mine' or 'oil well' in Saudi. To add salt to injury, the kitchen cabinet decided to use the law as it's tool and Aondaaka was the puppet, they played on the intelligence of 150 million Nigerians. Observers were fascinated by our story line, even the best scriptwriters in Holywood cant even boast of a script this impressive and am sure Steven Spielberg is taking a lesson or two in directing his much acclaimed suspense movies.
But as if our president been AWOL was not enough, AbdulMuttalab handed us a christmas present, without asking he became Nigeria's own santa, putting us on the terrorist list of country and stripping us of the little honour left of us as a country. The underwear bomber has he is fondly called put us on the headlines again, Nigeria became popular( not necessarily famous) again and was given another label a 'terrorist nation'. Imagine Al'Qaeda offering to help Nigeria and their marketers flooding Nigeria in thousands, trying to lure other 'muttalabs' into underwear bombing. I wont be surprised to know there is an Institute of Al'Qaeda Studies in Nigeria with Muttalab 101 as a core course. The Stupid boy just put all the efforts of well meaning Nigeria who have put Nigeria on the global scene for good stuvs like Wole Soyinka, Fela, Emeagwali, Mary Anyali, 2face etc POOF! and they all went up in flames with his stinking underwear.
Nigerians entered into the new year with a lot expectations, I even made a toast to it, that it was going to be an exceptional year. Then there came prophesies of iminent 'natural' disasster globally, startin with Haiti, the earthquake claimed innocent lives, then it moved to Chile and to Rwanda then Nigeria. But unfortunately ours was not natural, it was man made, Jos, Plateau state became a deathtrap. Watching the jos crises looked more like a bad case of GTA were violence rocked and peace sucked rather than Age of Empire where development was the main goal.
Some issues that were major in the past are now relegated to the background imagine, there has been fuel scarcity for five months now and no one is discussing it. I saw in one of the dailies that Jonathan is Running with IBB in 2011...oga o. I had to go to the market earlier this week and I heard that 'Mai Nama'(Meat Sellers), Pepper Sellers and tomato sellers are on STRIKE. Can u beleive that?...Men I was shocked beyond my wits coz just 2 small bulbs/balls of tomatoes went for =N=50, are we going to experience famine? I pray not. But I wonder who would salvage the situation when some mad blood hungry savages slice 3 yr old heads into two. I wonder wot kinda blood flows through their veins.
I guess it's time to say enough is enough!....I guess its time for TURAI and her cabal let us know wassup wiv Mr President, I guess it's time we buy a cup of garri for 5naira again, I guess it's time Nigeria is known for extraordinary things again, I guess it's time we stopped seeing long queues in our filling station, I guess it's time the acting president prays for more goodluck...it's high time all these killings in Jos and it's suburbs stopped...Bt who would in His/Her right senses sponsor such a massacre...yeah the heart of man is desperately wicked...who can know it, not me definitely.
Wot would be the next HEADLINE?
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