Nigeria is a skit. Someone said when God created Nigeria, He went to a corner to laugh. In fact, heaven is like a comedy channel to God. Well, of course, you can't help but agree. This country just keeps on disgracing you. Many are ashamed to call themselves Nigerians.
Recall that Nigerian athlete Tobi Amusan called out the AFN for substandard kits. Someone said, “Watch them defend this?”—and they did.
Within hours of Amusan’s Snapchat video, the AFN fired back at her, noting that she used business class at her request while her fellow athletes traveled in economy. They revealed that they didn’t send an incomplete kit but had only failed to send a traveling bag, which they claimed would arrive the next day. The Federation accused Amusan of being ungrateful, noting that she had only shown the world a batch of what was sent.
However, other news circulating has revealed that Nigeria is currently handicapped in relay races after officials deliberately failed to register 11 qualified athletes, instead reserving the spaces for themselves. As a result, the number of officials who traveled to Tokyo to “support” our athletes was even greater than the number of athletes themselves.
But are you surprised? Isn’t this the same country where a snake apparently swallowed millions of funds? A country that turned the then Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, into Sherlock Holmes? A country where a sitting President had the effrontery to call its youths lazy? A country that has turned terrorists into army members and kidnappers into skit makers? A country where the President is literally living in France?
A country that takes but never gives, just like they ruined Favour Ofili’s chances for a good eight years until she decided to put her career ahead of a faux sense of patriotism. A country that is apparently owing the Super Eagles, yet still expects them to give their all on the pitch?
A certain someone once said, “Nothing survives here—not dreams, not viruses."
