FERT

As I mount this stage, all of you here will be thinking that a professor just arrived. No. Not like that. I am a hustler, I'm not a bookworm. It's from my university days that I realized that school doesn't bring in the money. The only person I could recollect that made money from school is my professor of psychology. He once got an international grant to research 'Why Corruption is endemic to Nigeria.' The project grant was to the sum of 20 million dollars, it's a United Nation sponsored project. My professor bought a brand new Range Rover, Married a Second wife, did the 40 years in remembrance of his late father. He was disbursing money like a happy yahoo boy. In no time, EFCC was after him. He'd diverted funds meant for research into personal use. School is not my thing. After all, ASUU strikes more than thunder! This book in my hand contains the list of comedy I'll be cracking for you all. If you like, laugh. And if you want, accuse me of not being a...

Inside a commercial vehicle once, someone talked about how his younger brother - 37 years old died after a brief illness. He was unmarried without any child, yet possessed properties worthy of being a 'man.' After burying the dead, the family burnt all his possessions, ATM Cards inclusive, to totally erase his memories; since he left no child behind. 'That's the culture' he said. Thankfully, I'm not Yoruba. But out of curiosity, I asked; 'Which culture?' And everyone in the vehicle, regardless of the ethnicity or religion chorused; " African Culture" "It's the normal thing to do," said the drunk driving motorist. It broke my heart! Though the dead is gone, and the inanity of acquiring wealth ends once the heartbeat stops, I do not expect the living to treat the dead that way. But hey, this is life; perhaps meaningless! Different cultures with different ways of treating their dead. Many will bury their dead, some will burn, a few w...