Big Head! Tiny Thoughts.

The ruins of Dystopia haunt me! My nightmares are but visions, of streets paved with the craniums and femurs of heroes and villains, laid side-by-side, And rivers that overflow, with a cocktail of blood and mud. The ruins of Dystopia taunt me! The deafening silence, The occasional screams of pain and anguish that pierce the silent air, The smoke that rises from the inferno. All mockery of the faith I once had in humanity! The ruins of Dystopia want me... ...to tell you of these visions, the surreal sights and sounds, the thick smell of spent gunpowder, and the heavy taste of metal. To tell you how just a little love and kindness, will keep this a nightmare that never becomes reality.

I am confusion I reside in the mind of the 12yo muslim kid who was meters away from the mosque when it blew up wondering if his Qu'ran contains the same text as the blood-thirsty terrorists' I am courage I have built an abode in the mind of the 27 year Iraqi Christian who has has picked up arms, helping the government to keep what remains of his motherland I am fear I am the loud whisper in the head of the Mozambican as he pauses and glances one last time at what used to be home escaping xenophobia, fearing that his 'brother' might be his executioner. I am crazy I am the world bearing all the chaos and uncertainty the burden threatens to break me. I am hope I have overcome common sense I envision a world without warring sects each killing in the name of the almighty a world where we won't be looking for useless excuses to kill each other.

Nigeria needs to learn that borrowing is not the way out... LGs are borrowing, states are borrowing, FG is borrowing… Borrowing from commercial banks, borrowing from Paris club, borrowing from the World Bank, borrowing everywhere. Borrowing to build roads, borrowing to drill boreholes, borrowing to build schools, borrowing to steal. Unfortunately, this yeye habit is going to be here for a while. I remember when Simon Bako Lalong ​criticized the immediate past administration for the debt it accumulated. I had to admit that he had a point. “Finally the elephant in the room flees!” I thought. Here was someone one who was willing to talk hard on all this borrowing. Fast forward a few weeks… the story had changed. Shortly after being elected, Lalong mentioned that he was willing to pay salaries even before being sworn in, provided the banks will offer him loans. I was confused, I didn’t know if to join the civil servants in celebrating the end of their plight [after all, the en...