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I DON'T WANT SOME "SMELLY SHIT"

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Diet is everything They say, "You are what you eat." And I agree I sent someone very close to me  What I ate for dinner last night And the response I got was: "Is that food? It looks just like snack." Of course, I understand the import of that question and statement... We are used to heavy eating When it is carrots. We make sure that the weight of the Hausa man's barrow of "karros" is considerably reduced before we let him go. We don't normally deal with broccoli.  But judging by what we do to other vegetables  I am sure a piece of broccoli in a plate of food Served my grand parents, for instance, Might cataylse catastrophic altercations And pasta? We can take a whole packet, depending... But that place of curry stew With diced, well-cooked salmon, I tell you... is yummy My topic directly refers to another meal Actually, dessert that we had somewhere else Someone was going to tell another person... Note: none of t

ANOTHER NYANYA BOMB BLAST: AND THEY ARE STILL SITTING TIGHT?

The success or otherwise of a nation is predicated on the value it places on the lives of its citizens. It then follows that a leader's acceptability is dependent on how the death of just one citizen affects his or her decision. Regrettably, in my country, our lives are worth nothing above are meddlesome horde of cockroaches whose lives need be snuffed out by a spray of insecticide. Scores of innocent, law-abiding citizens died in the first Nyanya bombing. Their leader visited the scene promptly and shed tears for the camera. Moments later, he was in Kano dancing to re-election songs. Those potential voters who died that morning have suddenly ceased to matter. But a week later, his deputy's brother died and a whole Federal Exco Council meeting was shelved in his honour. And you are telling me these people care about me? Isn't it obvious that the only thing they care about is their purses and themselves?