When I saw a copy of Introducing Nigeria: A-Z I remembered the recent times I had gone to the library in England and could hardly find any full colour and beautifully illustrated book on Nigeria. The trio of Bakare, Belgore and Harrison had already done that and from first impressions, they had done a good job.

In the recent past, we have seen or read several cases of stealing from within the public sphere but unknown to many, privately employed citizens are almost equally involved in this thieving business. But they – these privately employed – have largely evaded scrutiny because unlike the treatment meted out to their public counterparts, their own linens are washed in private. 

On 14 June, 2009 THE NATION newspaper carried an interview with one Sadiq Yar’Adua. Because of my deep knowledge of Sadiq, from his career to his family background, I found it absolutely necessary to respond to the blatant lies he had spewed out in his interview.

He offered sacrifices to his ancestors. He gave us aboniki, shear butter and alovera to apply on his wounds. He said that, that will restore his arms. He also said he was going to bind the vigilante with the spirit of our ancestors so that they will never come to attack our Democracy or any other person in our community again. However each time Democracy appears to be recovering, they came to attack him . We have discovered that each time they attacked him; they gave him an injection in his arms. These are the containers of the injection and the label on it reads corruption. That is what they keep injecting into his arms and it is almost paralysing him because he can hardly use the arms again.

Nigerian Public Officials: Beware! Europe and America are not more hiding places for your loot. 

We will snoop you out. We would meet you at your ports of entrance and departure. And we will embarrass you to a point that you have never been embarrassed in your life before. And we will post your embarrassment on YOUTUBE and other sites to globally publicize your embarrassment. 

 My earlier consideration on the abortion issue was that abortion was wrong and unacceptable in every situation except in those very extreme, one-out-of-a-million cases. As I grew older however and became wiser as to the world’s ways, I began to modify my views. My thoughts on the issue further took a rather radical turn after I graduated medical school and began practicing medicine in the real world.

This greedy and tiny group of people has held Nigeria to ransom for too long and it must not continue like that. I want to once again call on all well meaning and true progressive Nigerians regardless of our tribe and religion to please come together to wrestle this country from those, who only think of themselves, their families and cronies to the detriment of general wellbeing of Nigerians.

Any politician that does not smoke, drink or love women cannot be that much of a merry man, yet this Nigeria has produced such men. That type of man, people stay away from because he cannot be fun to deal with. Even then, these men do succumb to a beautiful wife that captures their hearts. In the writer’s part of the world, we find slang like “man pass man, position pass power”. Reference is also made to “bottom power” in terms of tempting power of women’s beauty.
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