Musings of a Crazy Nigerian
Musings
The Nigerian Immunity to Suffering
“Doesn’t being Nigerian make you immune to human suffering?” These being the words of Right Honorable Sir Farouk that were spoken once upon a chat. Now let us go into Nigerian movie mode and indulge me and take a flashback to an earlier point in time, circa when I first went to the US. Well … Continue reading
Sir F’s Nigerian Workout Plan
Ladies and gentlemen, I am back once again. I cannot say categorically if I am back for good, for that you will have to ask my oga at the top (Yes, I know the joke is old). I haven’t written in a minute, I would have liked to blame a lack of free time brought … Continue reading
Things Are Still Falling Apart – RIP Achebe
I m not one to jump on the bandwagon but I believe today is an exception. I am a fan of Chinua Achebe. He was in my opinion the Grandfather of the Nigerian Literary Renaissance. I say renaissance which connotes a rebirth because I firmly believe he was first and foremost a storyteller of the … Continue reading
It’s MY Turn on The3Six5NG *Cue Parade*
So today is my turn on the3six5ng blog, if you havent heard about the project check out what I wrote the other day about it here. You can skip all of that and just go to the website and read, comment, volunteer here. I kinda have no idea what I m gonna write and I … Continue reading
Let The Fluid Flow: Tales of a Drunken Master
Started out with a sip Ok I lie, more like a guzzle Now here I am pumping away on the bed With reckless abandon and aplomb As she grips the sheets… They say mind over matter The mind of a tipsy man elucidates this point For I did not let my kingdom come For even … Continue reading
Who Do You Love? Musing on Love and Such
Tomorrow is the season to love and be loved. Whatever your take on whether valentine’s day is a conspiracy by the corporations to milk people out of money seeing as there is no consumer holiday to boost spending in February or you subscribe to marking the day as a veneration of the original “St Valentine” … Continue reading
Birthday, Freaky Friday and Kama Farouk
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING BLOG MIGHT BE UNSUITABLE FOR YOUNGER READERS So the 17th of January was my birthday. His Royal Highness, the Kpoi Kpoi of Waffi Kingdom, the Prince of Zamunda aka DJ Zamunda aka Usain Bolt eats my dust aka Adamawa boy toh bad turned the big Quarter Century. I share my birthday with … Continue reading
2012: The Year the World Didnt End, Bring on 2013!
2012: The Year the world didn’t end, 2013: Your Year of…*Insert Pentecostal babble here* Ladies, Gentlemen and other not so cultured people of the reading public, it’s your favorite or not so favorite fair weather blogger and friendly neighborhood pseudo-writer (Let me indulge myself), Alhaji Saint Sir Farouk the First of Gwara-gwara land and Prince … Continue reading
The Long Road to Excretion
At this moment in time he really wished time would stand still. Here he was standing on a moving bus and he had just shit in his pants. Oh how sweet it would be if the ground opened up and swallowed him up. He could feel the moist slurry move slowly down the inside of … Continue reading
Where are you from? Indigene Status in Nigeria and Being a Foreigner in One’s Land
The Nigerian legislature is planning to do a review of the 1999 constitution that was basically a conglomeration of past decrees and constitutions from republics past with a pinch of salt from the military leaders and some “politicians” at the time. So in fact, it did not truly encapsulate the views, preferences, consensus, scruples and … Continue reading
Nigerian News
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- Police arrest man who exhumed, sold corpses of relatives for N16,000 - Nigerian Tribune
- Terrorism: NCS seeks full deployment of IT across Nigeria - Guardian - The Guardian Nigeria
- Hawkers, Beggars Banned From Checkpoints By Yobe JTF - CHANNELS
- Tukur urges PDP governors to prepare for 2015 polls - The Nation
- Court upholds forfeiture order on brothel over human trafficking - Guardian - The Guardian Nigeria
- Tambuwal Commissions Projects In Abia - CHANNELS
- Emergency rule: Army denies recall of troops from Mali - Nigerian Tribune - Nigerian Tribune
