I pledge to Nigerian my country And I am sick and really angry To be faithful, loyal, and honest To a leadership perfectly dishonest To serve Nigeria with all my strength And to champion without constraint To defend her unity Among all disunity And uphold her honor and glory Though her honor is only but a story So help me God For I feel like in a fog Alisonomi 2019©
I had already pledged to Nigeria my country To be faithful, loyal and honest Before I recognized that in Nigeria Faithfulness is really too cost a virtue That loyalty is a commodity for the gods And that honesty has long been sacrificed At the alter by our desperate cabals who are Comfortably sitting on our national treasures Depleting with impunity the soul of country I had already pledged to Nigeria…
The toothless lions parading the jungle Scavenging all the available loopholes For the remains of animals to strangle Forcing woodchucks back to their holes They’re bloodsuckers on a deadly mission Roding our fatherland with no other vision Than to trample upon all they see moving As if they roars for others to be grooving From their caves located in the Abjo Rock And in the different secretariat of their den …
Let’s take a journey To a would’ve been nation Once loftily deemed a giant Of heroic dwarves’ continent A continent of great people Or a would have been one Who failed to metamorphose Dwindling like burning candles A nation of men and women With hidden overinflated egos Believing in their specialness Even with nothing to show off A nation of phoney people Where each one appears holy Christians and Muslims…
My Nigerian National Anthem Arise, O compatriots A Nigerian call, obey to save our fatherland From hate, disgrace and failure The labour of our heroes past shall never be forgotten, to save her from the cabals and fraudsters one nation to be bound in freedom Peace and united . O God of creation, Redirect our noble cause Teach our leaders to be right Help our youth our values to know In love…
Are we in a Democracy Day Celebration When the masses are not in jubilation As they see no reason to celebrate A day we have no one to congratulate Why celebrate the Democracy Day When the nation is in topsy-turvy today We rather celebrate our demon crazy To chase out what our president calls lazy Democracy is when the people govern And not when the youths are in oven Or the women…
Even arch-atheists like Ludwig Feuerbach and Friedrich Nietzsche agree that religion has a converging and utilitarian role for the society. But Nigeria has, in many ways, tried to prove these anti-religious philosophers wrong. Let me say it right away that it is always necessary to be careful why quoting a master of doubt like Nietzsche when it comes to religious issues. In his ‘Beyond Good and Evil’, Nietzsche made a very important…
Journaliste française : Est-ce que vos livres sont lus au Nigeria ? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie : Oui Journaliste française : Est-ce qu’il y a des librairies au Nigeria ? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie : Quoi ? Journaliste française : Je demande parce que les Français ne connaissent pas. Ils ne connaissent rien d’autre du Nigeria sauf le Boko-Haram. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie : Bien, je pense que ça reflète mal des Français, de vous attendre poser une telle question. Ce qui vient d’être…
All those who follow the evolution of opinions in Nigeria these days must have understood that one of the trilling subjects among the Igbos in Social Media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and the types has been the question of Biafra. A topic worthy of consideration. The bone of contention has been the propaganda that the Igbos are marginalized in Nigeria. An argument that always ends up in invoking the Biafran War. The…
On the 21st May 2015, Rev. Fr Thomas Reese, sj, wrote a very nice article on his impression after visiting Nigeria, as a member of delegation from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). On his article entitled Nigeria, a land of promise and problems, and published by The National Catholic Reporter, Fr Reese, wrote, (surely from his personal observations) on how corruption, incompetence, sectarian violence and total dependence on oil…
