Izuu's Turn

The dog is known for eating faeces in our climes. But there is no how it will end its enterprise and the goat will go and brush its teeth on its behalf. Likewise, no one take Panadol for another person's headache. Incidentally, not Nigerians. We sabi take Panadol for another person's headache even when we have severe diarrhea ourselves! The war between Israel and Gaza has been hyped and reported variously by the global media, of course with their usual side takings. The West, CNN especially, with its pro-Israel stance demonizes Gaza and it's people by highlighting the missiles which are undeniably being launched into Israel while downplaying the casualties on the other side. What I call the Muslim media, on the other hand, epitomized by the Iranian Press TV, suddenly becomes the voice of Gaza by emphasizing the heavy civilian casualties in Gaza and downplaying the military prowess of Hamas thereby making it look as if the people of Gaza (sometimes portraying them as 100% Mu...

By Femi Aribisala (on June 03, 2014 at 12:22 am) Note: This is not my write-up. I can't match the eloquence of the writer. I can't help agreeing with him either - Izuu  I was fifteen years old when the civil war broke out in Nigeria.  Although we were living in Ibadan in the South-west at the time, my sympathies were totally and unequivocally with the Igbos.  When a people have been so brutally butchered by their countrymen as happened to the Igbos, I felt they had no choice but to insist on leaving the country.  Therefore, I understood why the Biafrans went to war and what they were fighting for.  But I could not, for the life of me, understand what those on the federal side were fighting for.  Why would anybody fight for Nigeria? I lost a first-cousin fighting on the federal side during the civil war.  I wish I could have found out first-hand from him why he gave his life “to keep Nigeria one.”  Did he really believe in Nigeria?  I doub...

I am appalled, my country has become a country with the highest number of "heroes" on the planet. Everyone that dies is officially extolled as being patriots. Am not surprised because even at the centenary celebrations, the GEJ government gave merit awards to people who we honestly do not want our wards to emulate. And with these deaths also, everybody is a hero ... and what are the criteria? 1. You must be rich 2. You must have been in/close to government 3. You must have stolen the nation blind 4. You may belong to the ruling party 5. You must be an elder statesman even when your age mates are youth leaders in the same party 6. You must die in London; or at least, don't make the mistake of dying in Nigeria Once you possess any of these, even your victims must find religious or ethnic grounds to exonerate you of all your crimes while alive and then re-direct their accusations to someone else especially the incumbent. And what is that one doing? Pardoni...