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 Yes, am back again with my usual police yen yen yen and this, though not new, is about the pass _way pass, gate pass, bush pass, path pass whatever pass you can mention. As long as there is a police manning the pathway through which a driver/rider is plying, the pass payment is due. In clearer terms I’m basically talking about the no longer foreign but familiar context of police extortion of poor masses on the highway. Terms are clear. Once your are driving or riding to and or from a destination and you come in contact with the-men-in-black at a check point, you must as a matter of “ na so the country be ” drop a tip not less than #50 (fifty Naira) otherwise woe betide you. As Nigerians we’ve grown into this ignoble norm of once a checkpoint is spotted and a police is on the way, a pass transaction is imminent. In fact, how dare you not comply? This is an ugly trend that has come to stay in a vacancy that has been structured to fit. It’s a menace we’ve embraced together with

Today I took a trip to Benin from Auchi after a seemingly long while since I’ve had to ply the highway and today’s experience was quite different from previous scenarios where I’d have to wish nothing should make me travel by land via the instrumentality of a bus or whatever vehicle again. This time I have no energy left after wasting four solid hours en route Auchi to Benin. I could only grumble in sheer exhaustion and irritation. I am not going to bore you with the sad story of how my body aches but permit me to share from how bad to worse land travel has become in the South-South using the highway in view _Auchi/Benin expressway. Auchi to Benin is about 134.4 kilometers of approximately two hours fifteen minutes ride (if one decide to cut the driver some slack) and used to cost five hundred Naira as at the time I started traveling (in my JSS3 days) up until I had my Ordinary National Diploma. Just before you started feeling tired from sitting in one position, the bypas

On Edo Politics Today Victor Okhaimo has this to say THE CURRENT EDO POLITICAL IMPASSE – WHERE I STAND: The political atmosphere in Edo State in the past few weeks assumed a very interesting dimension wherein one is forced to do a critical appraisal and thorough assessment of the situation before taking sides or charting any course. I  have been inundated with numerous calls and messages seeking to know my stand and viewpoint from the alleged thugs invasion of Edo University Iyamoh, to the disagreement between Adams Oshiomhole and his estranged political godson and finally to the decamping of Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu who everyone knows is my political leader to whom I accord great respect and for whom I made enormous though unsuccessful sacrifices to see his emergence as Governor of Edo State in 2016. Firstly, the action of some political enthusiasts and loyalists of a faction of the APC wherein the prestigious Edo University Iyamoh was invaded on the day of its maiden convocat

T W I S T E D Not too long I'll be off From a job (I hold dear) so, My thoughts swirl_ like a mob And am clobbered Down at per with the mud. You can't take this A hanging loop appeals. Alas, further reason Is in all sense bleak and So, am dead_ suicide! Here, there is an unrest. Death, like an emotional cop Puts me in cuffs_ it's an arrest. That loud silence_ shriek it is, Feeds me fright Like the sight of a grimly battered corpse. And so, I die further in this Dirt, value stripped. I'm a coward who betrayed life. Caught shut in a short cut, With no choice but one thought... ...to go back Take another shot at life But this cake has since been eaten and So, I'm trapped in my mistake. Can I wish it away? Why can't I? Instinctively, I force a slap on my forehead That rams me back to reality. Pheew! There goes a long sigh! It's all been a trance! Or maybe not. Maybe this is another shot at life. I guess.

Nigeria was never named after River Niger. The Republic of Niger was. Our dear country was named Nigger Area and this later metamorphosed into Nigeria. Nigger as we all know is another derogatory word to mean slave. You get it now, right? Yes Nigger Area is Slave Area. So after the White man had his term of enslaving and exploiting us, they left us for our Politicians to continue. The Whites robbed us and are still robbing us. How? You say. Through our Politicians who take our resources there under Education/health tourism, money laundering, foreign investments, looting and many other guises. And Yes! Anyone who dares repatriate same no matter how small via the instrumentality of the new media is termed a Yahoo boy and must be locked up, says the law. Right? The story continues. _Jeremiah Kadiri

Before you join in to chorus #sexforgrade radarada, brouhaha... it'll interest you to know that 85% of these female students want and even request for Sexually Transmitted Degrees (STDs) Don't be a hypocrite! Say na she give you do (from her own volition), no mean say you be clean sheet. Say because them never catch you no mean say you free. Even you wey help person wey your colleague dey do nkor? Your hand and legs dey inside this matter. Truth is, everybody hand dey this matter_ From A to Z and everything in between. Just keep playing your game to 'hell' and keep your mouth shut or repent and still keep your mouth shut! Meanwhile, no animal, plant or thing was injured in the course of this publication. Any resemblance between this content and anything else (dead or alive) is a wowing miracle. _Jeremiah Kadiri         #jeyKAD       09_10_019