In Nigeria most times than not there's no power but when it rains, like today,we don't give a heck about it all!

It's always a dicey situation in many African homes.

Who's the devil here?

Eighty Nigerians on fraud charges in America. Twenty-three Nigerians facing beheading in Saudi Arabia for drug peddling.
Ominous clouds hanging over Nigeria's image abroad - not as though it rained anything positive over there but these recent numbers raise a number of concerns about the image of Nigerians among comity of nations. SHAME.

COVID-19 has forced many employers out of business, employees out of work. In one of the most horrible times ever experienced by mankind, the world is groaning from the after effects of a global pandemic.

Many victims of Nigeria's ethno-religious wars are buried without fully accounting for their identities. SHAME.

Nigeria's young men are highly at risk of not celebrating their 25th or 30th birthday if they become successful or appear to be successful by the age of 20.

Many undocumented and documented killings of young men by trigger happy police men.

But who will save our young men?

The Nigeria system creates monsters that feed on the blood of the innocent; only for their nepotic and despotic rulers to turn around and hunt these unfortunate beings for sport. Sad.

By the time I woke up at thirty, and hadn't realised my dreams of thirteen years back, I could have continued to blame naivety but instead I looked up the road and took in my knapsack. STRONG.

Whether satirical or not, stories are rife that that an impostor sits on the hottest seat on the African continent. CLONE? ZOMBOID? BODY DOUBLE?

Caring for and loving, unconditionally, a twenty-seven-month-old girl is nothing I've ever experienced in my lifetime, although I'd cared for my niece a decade ago, this is nowhere near waking up and living with my champion.

No love, more problem.

They're used to satisfy fetishes of rich Arabian animals. They demean female folk for their own inane pleasures: a sick and dastardly fetish. For a couple of thousand dollars, these women sell dignity to the dogs. Out of desperation or an unknowingly harmless fun seeking adventure, many end up being *******, goldenshowered or beastialised. But it's all fun you until that which makes you human questions your sanity. STROKES.

In Nigeria, the oppressed people woke up to need that the convener of a 'revolution now' movement symbolised by orange berets had been abducted by state forces. SHAME.

In the fifth month of our new born son, my wife thinks she missed her period...oh, wow!

Between our first daughter and son is three years and this one, if the two stripes from yesterday's test strip is confirmed, means the next bundle of joy will be fourteen or fifteen months younger than the now youngest...yikes!

My two and a half years old daughter suddenly cries out for her sleep, thrashes around and begin these episodes of shivering, goosebumps all over her body, teeth chattering. She'd been fine all day long, although she'd cried a lot while plaiting her hair in the evening, but it's nothing that he mother and myself weren't familiar with. But tonight she scared the **** out of me; my wife, the cool-under-pressur onele, took her from me, wrapped her and held her close while I stumbled all over the place looking for whatnot.

It will be hours later that her condition made a favorable turn and she'd lay in my chest to sleep. THANKS.

I have never bothered much about their current predicament, no, not until they began taking sides with the generation that has kept them impoverished. The same people that have only benefited from the benevolence of Nigeria but have poured copious amounts of malevolence upon later generations. Elections are few months away and they will again spill blood to give their oppressors free reign to flog more sufferings into their already bent, misshapen backs. SAD.

We have only one life to lead, live.

Nigeria imports almost anything imaginable. SHAME

My wife gave birth to our second born, 12/11/2019 1445hrs, a boy. His older sister, almost three years old, was besides herself with outrageous excitement.
To all the wives or mothers out there doing unimaginable things, beyond otherworldly things no man can do - respect!

Different times, now.

First penned in December 2000, edited in September 2001 and March 2002. Modified in 2020.

How those celebrities have been coming down with COVID-19 leaves more questions than answers in my mind.
The latest is a black man of European descent. After famous footballers have been infected and some achieving remarkable recoveries.

The leadership of certain countries have been infected, others exposed. In one huge play of sorts, this thing gradually finds a stage to present one of the biggest, globally organised tragedies, of the modern era.

At the red table, many things become scarlet.