1/ UKRAINE 🇺🇦
One of the two representatives of Ukraine at EUROVISION finals this year, Franky, is a Nigerian, born in Lagos and went to Ukraine 🇺🇦 when he was 16yrs to study pharmacy; he has since completed his studies settled down in Ukraine and will be singing some songs in Ukrainian language.
– I know when he wins or if he wins some people will chuck it as “up Nija” but my take on it is, he and millions of others like him are “big loss Nija” not “up Nija.”
Ukraine is not a First world country or advanced country or economy by any stretch of imagination.
2/ PERU 🇵🇪
The last President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori was just sentenced to 25 years in prison for bribery while in office.
Hmm Peru is not an advanced country.
While we don’t know the politics at play, what we know is that he is amongst ex leaders of countries that have recently been sentenced or being prosecuted for graft including those of our neighbors: South Africa, Brazil, even Isreal… etc.
Chew on it
Think of the message being sent out loud and clear…. more resounding about the “perennial war against corruption in Nija.”
3/ UK 🇬🇧
Archbishop of Canterbury just days after putting the crown on the king of England was fined and paid £600 for speeding (8 KM over the speed limit) near his home.
Na wah.. he never dropped the “do you know me? Do you know who I am? Do you know I crowned the king? Bla bla bla ?”
Just imaging if he was a Nigerian living in Nigeria who has just been nominated as one of the transition committee members or named as the imam that will swear in the president elect on May 29 and the name flashed on the media and road safety stops him for speeding.
I don’t want to think anymore.. you fill in the gap.
4/ PAUPA NEW GUINEA 🇬🇳
The Prime Minister just resigned for calling protesters “primitive people.”
They were protesting the high cost the government spent on attending the coronation of King Charles.
However, our House of Representatives just had a second reading for a law making it a “criminal offense” punishable by six years for protesting in Nigeria 🇳🇬
Meanwhile Nigeria is supposed to be a signatory to multiple international and bilateral agreements that give the populace the right to protest, and I asked our House of Representatives members on Friday 5/5/23 when the bill passed its second reading “is this the most pressing issue in Nigeria “that you will be hell bent on passing it into law?”
People are dying of hunger and the country is suffocating in debt, but you are bent on criminalizing protesting as if we have a “protest infestation.”
Anyway, just got these off my chest!
Our problems are self-inflicted.
Not foreign inflicted.
Ya ga zie
Boris being nosy.
Dr. Boris Emeka Oji is based in the United States of America (USA).
