MOTHER NIGERIA

MOTHER NIGERIA

Our Social Studies teacher told us that there are three main tribes in Nigeria. Blessed pregnant Mother Nigeria was diagnosed by a doctor who told her that she is going to give birth to three children. On delivery, compassionate Mother Nigeria named one of the triplets Mr. North and asked him to live in the north. She named the second child Mr. South and southern part of the country was made to be his dwelling place. The third child who decided to settle in the east was named Mr. East.

Mother Nigeria owns a very large herd of cattle which she entrusted its rearing to Mr. North and Mr. South successively. As good and responsible children, Mr. North and Mr. South did their best in keeping the herd healthy and secured through the provision of veterinaries and strong shepherds who are ever ready to guard the cattle at the price of their own lives. To prevent the cattle from hunger they introduced valuable programs like Operation Feed the Nation, Green Revolution, Back to Land etc. Beside these, they constructed good roads and bridges for the cattle to roam about freely in the country in search of pasture.

Alas! Poor Mother Nigeria! She is now 54 years of age, seriously in need of help and support, Mr. East assumes the responsibility of taking care of the cattle. Unfortunately, many of the cattle were mercilessly murdered. Well we are not surprised. Mr. East had once made Mother Nigeria cry in 1966 when he executed the first bloody coup which engulfed many excellent cattle from the north and south. Since then, Mother Nigeria had pogroms, political paralysis, a vicious civil war, depression, unrest fueling ……..

My friends, I am very sorry for the grammatical errors, I don’t mean to make them BUT NA DEM WAKA COM.