From Brain Drain to Sperm Drain!

I was going for a bottle of beer yesterday when I stumbled on this unlikely couple of a young Lagos boy and an old white woman, I suddenly remembered the speech of a chairman of the occasion at a wedding I attended, last year, between an old German lady in her 60s and a young Nigerian boy who was definitely in his 20s. Just when I was wondering how absurd the union is the so called chairman of the occasion in his speech at the reception described the wedding as a union of “opportunity meets preparation”. I was shock-sprised at his apt description of this dubious union; this generation has totally degenerated such that we no longer know what is required for a marriage.

My fear is that while our African brains are being drained in medicine, academics et cetera the drainage has migrated to other parts of our body and now it is sperm drain. Either we choose to discuss it or not it is a new and thriving small-scale-tsunami that has stemmed from our economic woes and the desperation to seek survival in developed lands. If we do not seriously watch it by instilling values in our children in a couple of decades with the help of internet and our hopelessly failing economy our entire young male population would have been exported as either baby makers or sex slaves as I do know how else to explain a union of “opportunity meets preparation” between a woman of 60 and a lad of 20.

If not for the fact that I cannot infringe on anyone’s privacy and I also cannot say there are not some few cases of genuine love, I would have posted a recent and pathetic picture of such a wedding at Ikoyi Registry. I wish I had the resources to isolate a couple of these weddings and track them into the next few years, no doubt, some of them will turn out well but a larger number will not. I know from watching married folks that it takes more than a sexually frustrated old woman and a hungry young boy to make a marriage work.

I asked myself if I would do same given their circumstance my answer was a strong NO as I am a poet and a humble man I would have written my pains and hope that someone might pay me for it than opt for a hopeless journey with a woman I do not love, and then my worry shifted. While I was occupied by thoughts that my sister’s future-husband might get carried away by this drain—I asked myself if I would be happy to see my sister marry a man that could easily get carried away by ordinary drainage waters, I concluded that such a man does not deserve my sister. The comforting news is that many young men will not do it, so have no fear my sister an eligible and credible one will come your way soon, he will not be drained away so cheaply.

MY PRESIDENT, ONCE AGAIN, HAS SPOKEN

My president, once again, has spoken
“Do not admonish me as a child” Jonathan.

Sir, I shall, I shall admonish you as my child.

In the recent history of our beloved country, Nigeria, I do not think we've had a president that talks with less refinement than the current one. The man has proven that even Obasanjo at his military parlance worse was a lot better.

Our commander in chief once said in a self indicting statement that his government has been infiltrated by the dreaded Boko Haram sect and up till now he is yet to decisively fish them out of his government. Chai! Excuse me, what is it with this man, does he know how to hold his tongue? Perhaps the FEC should create a committee to assist the president on how not to speak in public as a president. Imagine the same man only few days ago in Germany saying our Army is below international standards! What kind of president goes about displaying his country’s weakness without a clear cut road map to fixing it?

It has now become the case of "If the mouth of my village chief smells who am I to tell him" I wonder what the court-jesters and praise-singers who surrounds Mr. President tell him each time he goofs which is undoubtedly is each time he talks. It seems that whenever the man opens his mouth an odious smelling fly comes out. At a dinner in honour of the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday, My president said “Even though we expect all moneybags to be in PDP, but we don’t want the moneybags to influence the activities of the party and to stop that of course, we must come up with programmes that will make the party self-sustaining in terms of financing.” Once again the man is excellent at isolating problems but lame at proffering solutions even with the retinue of committees he is surrounded with.

Who are the “we” that “expect all the money bags to be in PDP”? What kind of political party wants all the moneybags (without reservations) as her sponsor? If my president thinks that PDP should become a cooperate organization, so be it, let them start a PDP bank or a PDP automobiles for all I care they may have a PDP Oil company so they can suppress the influence of the so called “moneybags” (aka the almighty cabal). It strikes me that this statement may not be unconnected with the Farouk Lawan led committee’s report, however I hope my president knows that Nigerians are waiting and watching patiently for what his government will do as regards this committee’s findings and recommendations and let him also know that we know that most of those indicted are the “moneybags” he does not want influencing the activities of the party, if his intentions are sincere let him use this opportunity to cleanse the PDP of unwanted “moneybags”.

Like my president I shall end my write with no solution besides my earlier suggestion that we create a committee on how not to talk as a president and perhaps another one on how not talk as wife of the president for his wife.

RE: Sabotaging Nigeria’s public-funded university education

My rejoinder to Professor OMOTOYE OLORODE's "Sabotaging Nigeria’s public-funded university education"


Prof. Olorode has done a good job here howevr we must not forget that this is a country where corruption resides in every fiber of the society hence, adequate funding and absolute autonomy (without the nosing around of NUC) may not be the only panacea required to safe our failing and ailing education system.


Our so called professors and aristocrats have also failed us too, even if our weak successive governments have not succumbed to the external pressure to underfund the education system, are we sure that our VCs and their friends wouldn’t have misappropriated allocated funds?


If I may answer “no” to that question; we all can also say that our education system would have gotten this far worse due to misappropriation if not due to underfunding!


This brings me back to where I started from that adequate funding and absolute autonomy would not be the only needed cure for our failing education system; we also need Nigerians that are dedicated to Nigerians just like we need one in Aso Villa.