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In view of the ungoing crisis in Nigeria:

• The Odetola and Lawan Scandal
• The Boko Haram Crisis in the North, and so on...

Here is our own take on Nigeria. Please enjoy the poem below and don't forget to send your own comments to: fabschoolsnigeria@yahoo.com, or on our website: www.fabschools.blogspot.com. So, here it is, as said earlier enjoy...

POEM’S TITLE:      WHY THE BAD PRESS?

WRITTEN BY: BOLUWATIFE NATHANIEL AWOFADEJU

            Everyday the image of an individual is tarnished,

            Everyday our country’s name is soiled,

            What a pity,

Why?

5          Why do we give ourselves a bad name?

From suicide bombings and robberies-

To kidnapping and sabotaging,

From assault, manslaughter and genocides-

To black-mailing, frauds and associations,

10        As you know the list goes on…

I’m simply fed-up of all of this.

Why?

Why do we give ourselves a bad name?

Must some individuals be so irrational?

15        Irrational to kill themselves or others or sometimes themselves and others?

I just don’t get it,

Some rulers are fraudsters,

Reapers of what they didn’t sow-

Later leaving remnants for the oppressed and silent people in the society,

20        This is just giving us a bad name,

This is what we simply call bad press.

Away from the leaders,

And now to the followers,

We are simply complex to understand,

25        Too complex to even understand our individual selves and problems,

Talk less of understanding the needs and problems of others.

Some individuals just love wars and fightings-

They are not cool with peace at all,

They are simply comfortable with a place full of chaos,

30        These are wicked people,

They mustn’t live to see the light of the day, right?

But let me give you a shocker,

They are numerous in this world today,

And we simply can’t do anything about that.

35        All we can do is to re-orientate them,

Not just them but everyone else (inclusive of ourselves),

We all need to reappraise ourselves regularly,

To check-mate our excesses,

To deal with our weakness,

40        And to live rightly in today’s society.

That way we all can be happy,

We would have corrected our bad name,

And left the bad reports from revolving around us,

That way unity, peace and tranquility would truly exist in diversity.