Nigeria the Floating Giant

Nigeria will remain a Sick Giant as long as it is perpetually bedeviled and plagued by grotesque incompetent leaders suffering from historical amnesia.

We will continue to progress retrospectively with abysmal ridicule from lesser countries.

Nigeria can rise again and take her place if our demographic mediocrity and parochial loyalty to individuals in power is subordinated to true nationalism; consciously and conscientiously buried.

Nigeria is merely floating at the moment. The crop of officialdom we have are nothing but a Tsunami to this raped Nation.

Nigeria has everything required to lead Africa. We have the intellectuals, we have the wealth, we have great men and women with vision; but focused and visionary leadership has remained a challenge since independence. Ethnicity, religion, zoning and primitive partisanship has continued to hold us back.

Nigerian has lost her birth-right and big brother status. We pray our children in their own generation wakes up the sleeping giant.

Africa will raise again!

• Philippa Asiodu

A JOKE

Never Argue With Children
A little girl was talking to her teacher about
whales. The teacher said it was physically
impossible for a whale to swallow a
human because even though it was a very
large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was
swallowed by a whale.
Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a
whale could not swallow a human; it was
physically impossible.
The little girl then said, “When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah.”
The teacher asked, “What if Jonah went to
hell?”
The little girl replied, “Then you ask him.”

Written by I G Malgwi