My Dirty Boxers

  The best brains are leaving the country and you can't blame them, even the next election doesn't offer much hope. (Photo credit: Ramsey's iPhone) As I pen this, my kid brother is in flight to no man’s land and he’s not the only one. We are now reduced to phone calls, DMs and emails – that is what we get for being Nigerians, it is what it is… I am worried for Nigeria. The best brains are leaving and we can’t do anything about it; there’s no help in sight with the sick, the thief and the confused squaring up at the next elections. Lol, I just got a message from another friend that has now relocated to Canada… Con be like say na only me remain LOL. Everyone is shouting, “get your PVC and vote”, social media influencers (those that are not or not yet on the payroll of the big two) are screaming “get your PVC and vote” and in my heart of heart I am asking: for who? For the sick? The thief or the confused? I have tagged Tinubu the sick and that is self-explanatory. Just t...

  Happy birthday kid brother. Have an amazing new year. (Photo credit: Ramsey's iPhone) Some three decades and more ago, my mother handed me my immediate younger brother. He is the only younger one I don’t have a slight memory of his birth LOL of course I was barely two years old when he was born but as things stand today, 25 th of September 2022… He is still my next of kin. Speaking of next of kin, since dude is married, shouldn’t that be transferred to Bennie? Well that one too is planning wedding for December and the girls that followed that one too are married… Who will be my next of kin bayi? Abi I should start putting mumsy’s name ni? As her man don enter great beyond… I digress. There’s so much to write about my kid brother but I don’t know how to feel today. Dude is relocating to the UK like many others around me and that leaves me worried. I feel like a loner already, Maxi moved already and I just might be the only one left by the end of the year. Birthdays are quit...