Yomyom

Moral uprightness was imprinted in the DNA of many of us born before and during the 70s. It was the responsibility of everyone in the community to raise a morally upright child, a misbehaviour is sometimes addressed with a slap, knock or flogging from an elder on your street, which immediately can reformat your brain setting. Parents hardly asked what offence one committed as everyone wanted what was good for their child.  But today is a radical departure from then, as mothers even go to school to fight teachers who chastise their misbehaving wards.  This attribute is common amongst the wards of our so-called leaders who cannot correct their wards and would not allow anyone to correct them. We seem to have lost our moral compass as a nation.    Moral compass is an internalized set of values and objectives that guide a person with regard to ethical behaviour and decision-making. It directs a person's ability to judge what is right and wrong and act accordingly...

Nigeria is described as the most populous black nation. It is often said that one in every five black men living is a Nigerian and this comes with some boastful territory but what you won't  hear is that Nigeria is a madhouse. A base of impunity and the fountain of corruption. How do you explain a people who personify greed and gullibilty? How do you describe a nation that exhorts religion above righteousness? A  nation where persons of low moral values occupy our highest offices? Pastors and Imams line their pockets with riches stolen from our commonwealth and then look away when the rulers suck and lick us dry. Then they mount their cursed pulpits and spew out hatred. The pastors remind us of how we should not be easily yoked with unbelievers while the imams propagate and reemphasise the need to behead infidels.  Imagine their retinue of security personnel. Yet they claim God is their defence. I have come to see religion and politics as Siamese twins. ...

Day after day, year after year as I grow, I am more convinced that being a Christian is not the same as going to church every Sunday or being present at every weekly service. Every Sunday the churches around my nation are filled to capacity and sometimes you even have what you call "spillovers" but by the next day - Monday morning, no Sunday evenings you wonder where the 'Christians' went. Everyone driving against traffic. And you see and hear cursing lips spewing vituperations at anyone who tries to make sense in the senseless stage called 'Naija'. Evil permeates our nation like the air we breathe. So I ask, where are the Christians in Nigeria? How else would you explain that a boss who goes to church every Sunday would go for months and not pay his staff but will spend every other weekend abroad? Or a governor who finds it convenient to close a school because there is no money, yet there is money to buy new cars for commissioners. There is even eno...