Hon. Patrick speaks on Gay Marriage

“Alas oppressionism has befuddled the
appendage of the innocent gayous Nigerian. I
am overghastedly flabberwhelmed at the
current social media crinkum-krankum set
ablaze in the furnace gargantuan gaga fully
odoriferous and bugabooish in this phase and
time.

The drama is combustible. The police, our
most obliquyous Machiavellian baga-bubu has
begun their disdain of molestation. The legal
intercontinental ballistic missile unsaphronisationistically unleashed by Mr
President has caused a global rejection,
commotion, and OBAMA has pooh-poohed his
mumbo-jumbo.

Nigeria has maniacally accepted a perfidious
hockery-pockery of a legalisationism whilst
ignoring the poverty portraits on that
bewildered, repugnant, wretched faces of the
earth.

This is not terra ferma for me and it is clearly
a terra incognito. The discobolus generated
by the sola-campus nuances is flawless like
the biblical ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN’.
Now the country is in a political Bermuda
Triangle and if we do not take very urgent
and responsible steps to meander the
interstices of eschewable cataracts, land
mines waterfronts, icebergs and ox bow lakes
of the gay ban, the ship of the Nigerian state
has all the capacities and possibilities of
berthing in the disastrous and pestilential
aqua of a terminus aquem”

What happened to Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment?

Just like every other Nigerians, I went to the bank and paid the sum of one thousand naira. My thoughts were 'its just 1k naw'. Multiply it with the number of people that applied nationwide and you would begin to imagine how the minister of interior swindeled a whole nation.

Corruption in Nigeria has now become our culture. Its normal to hear stories of public officials stealing in millions and even billions of naira. It is believed that as a high ranking pubic official, not having a serious corruption case against you means you have not joined the league of 'big boys'.

When the minister of interior,Abba Moro, after a massive public outcry, came out to defend the collection of fees for the NIS recruitment, his reasons were anything but satisfying.

Before then, the FIRS, Civil Defence, Customs had also carried out employment exercises but no one asked any applicant for a dime. So you would begin to ask yourself where Abba Moro got the powers to charge Nigerians that amount that you would consider very outrageous given the current economic situation in the country.

Abba Moro erred big time. And even after the National Assembly ordered the money to be returned to Nigerians, he refused to comply.

I paid my hard earned money for that application, just like every other Nigerian. And just like every other Nigerian I like getting services when I pay for something. Nothing has been heard of the recruitment exercise. Nothing good anyway. Except the fact that two officers where dismissed for soliciting for hundreds of thousands of naira from some potential recruits.
The question Nigerians are asking is: What has happened to the NIS recruitment?

...fallen Soldiers

Yesterday in Nigeria, we remember gallant and courageous men and women of the armed forces that paid the supreme price during their service to this country.

They fell and we walk on the remains of their body and blood to reach where we are today.

Every year we celebrate but we are never sober. We create new political grounds every opportunity we have to increase the number of fallen soldiers every January 15.

Look at our service chiefs today; they are well-fed with enormous bellies so much so that it becomes so hard to lift their legs to salute the fallen heroes.

May God continue to grant succor to the families of the fallen heroes.

Culled from Mr Temitayo Busari's Facebook update.

Nigeria; A nation without HERO!

We have heroes in all walks of life -- men and women with unique achievement in sports, medicine, and music. We have the unsung heroes in our classrooms, marketplaces and on the boulevard of life. We have men and women who inspired us as children and as teenagers to strive for the stars; men and women who impacted our daily lives and without whom our lives and joy would have been limited, our dreams stunted and our imagination blurred. Without these everyday heroes our lives would have been unfulfilled. And then there are the heroes who are ever present in our lives: our parents who are the faces of God.

In addition, we have our national heroes: men and women who are noted for their great courage and strength. Here, I speak of men and women of extraordinary political achievements. I speak of men and women who risked their freedom and their lives in the services of their country. I speak of men and women who answered the call of their people and their land and in so doing sacrificed their lives and desires and comfort so their people may live, so their land may proper and be free from the chains of humiliation, servitude and oppression. Every nation has such men and women.

Nigeria, it seems to me, is the only country that does not revere the extraordinary men and women who lived their lives in the service of the country. In contemporary times at least, Nigerians behave as though no man or woman ever gave his or her life or sacrificed their freedom and liberty so future generations can have a better life. This repulsive attitude can be seen in the manner Nigerians speak of their nationalists. More so on the Internet, some Nigerian commentators and net-chatters have a penchant for displaying their ingratitude and contempt for the country’s heroes. Denigrating some of our heroes has become a pastime for some of these charlatans.

Listed below are some of the few reasons why Nigeria as a country can no longer have a HERO.

1. Tribalism: This has eaten deep into the core of our nationhood. No person emerging as a hero in any of the regions or tribes of the nation does so without being at daggers drawn with other regions or tribal entities. (Take the Awolowo, Sardauna, Ojukwu stories).

2. No common enemy: Nigeria whole has no common enemy. No problem or situation or even people tend to pose a common threat to the peoples and regions of the country. Whatever is going on in the East seems to be a problem of and for the East alone. What ever the war is in the north is regarded a northern problem. It goes on and on all over the country.

3. Careless fight against corruption: Corruption seems to be the only seemingly common enemy of Nigeria. However, the fight against corruption has been on a low ebb. There has been no serious collective struggle against it. As a matter of fact, everyone seems to be in the race to getting a share of the "national cake" by any means necessary or possible. And until corruption is dealt with there wouldn't likely be any tilt towards dealing with the other attendant banes bedeviling our nation.

Nigeria is a country, more or less, united only on paper. The peoples are far apart from each other, our pursuits are at variance. The under lining theories of our being a nation are at variance. We have no common purpose. There simply isn't any national ideology.

Until we desire to deal with these things, and indeed begin to do so, we would wait in vain for a Nigerian Hero.

Moral Decadence II

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.

We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less.

We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships.

These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.

These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.

- George Carlin