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Saturday, September 29, 2018
Friday, September 29, 2017
INDEPENDENCE DAY BLUES!
(Blast from the past. I
look forward to the year I'll discard this article.)
The
Nigerian Independence day has come. I always have mixed feelings every time it
comes around. Why? Despite all the money pumped into the country,
sometimes borrowed, the country doesn’t seem to be moving forward. Some
people spend their time blaming the colonial masters for taking different
confederacies and gluing them together to form a country; some spend their time
blaming the leaders past and present, then the rest don’t even care. Well, the
general news is that our leaders are the problem the country has, they destroy
the country by stealing away the money meant for the masses, they say.
This leads me to the
heart of my thoughts on this. Our national anthem, which I regret to say, some
don’t even know the words, others know it but recite it like a poem they had to
cram. They don’t know the meaning of the words in the National anthem,
especially the first line.
‘ARISE O COMPATRIOTS,
NIGERIA’S CALL OBEY
TO SERVE OUR FATHERLAND
WITH LOVE AND STRENGTH
AND FAITH
THE LABOURS OF OUR
HEROES PAST
SHALL NEVER BE IN VAIN
TO SERVE WITH HEART AND
MIGHT
ONE NATION BOUND IN
FREEDOM
PEACE AND UNITY’
Well, the National
anthem should be scrapped because it is nothing but a farce.
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