Tomorrow, Nigeria will celebrate its 53rd independence anniversary. Fifty three years since the Union Jack was lowered for the final time; since that moving speech in which Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa declared the start of “a new chapter in the history of Nigeria, and of the Commonwealth, and indeed of the world.” Incidentally too, tomorrow, the Academic Staff Union of Universities will “thank” God for the grace to add yet another day to a strike that has now entered its third month. Their Polytechnic counterparts will continue the countdown to the resumption of a strike they “suspended” in July. Up in the North-Eastern corner of the country, the Nigerian military will, as news reports have hinted, continue analysing the video clip allegedly released by the supposedly dead leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau. They will also prepare to kill him for the seventh, or perhaps seventeenth, time. President Goodluck Jonathan, himself, will celebrate the day, not in Eagle Square, but in the comfort of his home, because the fear of Boko Haram is the beginning of wisdom.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 06:21:09 +0000
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