The man must be the greatest joker of the century! How could he say that knowing full well what his trigger-happy men are capable of doing?” noted John, a commuter in this Mile 2-bound commuter bus in reaction to a statement credited to a bigwig in the Nigeria Police Force, warning motorists and commercial motorcyclists (Okada) to desist from giving the police money at checkpoints.

O God! What is with Africans, especially Nigerians? We love titles so much. It is commonplace to see a man having over seven titles and all the titles must come before or after his name. For instance, you hear something like High Chief, Professor, Dr., AYZ,(OFR, GCFR, BA, BSc.,GCE, SSCE).

Fifty years of independence and we are still crawling?” asked Pat, a commuter in an Ikeja-bound passenger bus while listening to an advert on radio about Nigeria’s forthcoming 50th independence anniversary celebration. “In what single area have we improved post-independence? Instead of all this noise, we should go to our closets and weep for our dear nation and what has become of what was once a promising nation.

IN the past nudity in any form was considered a mark of uncivilisation, but today, it’s like the more you bare, the more civilised or fashionable you are considered. Parliamentarians focused on this when Peter suddenly exclaimed: “Phew! What is this world turning to? Is it now a crime to dress decently? Didn’t these two people look at themselves in the mirror before leaving home?”

Why must civil servants always use strike action to press home their demand? Just look at what this warning strike embarked upon by medical doctors in some states has caused? Some patients have died due to lack of medical care,” began Jeff. “Physicians are not supposed to embark on strike no matter what happens. Their primary duty is to save lives, money or no money!” he declared.

Simply because a few bad eggs exist among us does not make every Nigerian a bad egg. Are all Colombians drug barons? Are all Americans drug addicts? Are all Arabs terrorists? Hell, No! We are not worse than those people but their media don’t go about telling the world how bad their people are.

“Did you also hear that the security vote runs into millions of naira a month? Nobody accounts for that so they do whatever they choose with it,” noted Shola. So although OBJ is not my friend, but he has spoken the truth.

Driver, are you having diarrhoea of the mouth? Since we left Oshodi over 30 minutes ago, you have been talking non-stop. Please concentrate on your driving,” said Mike who was visibly irritated by the constant chattering by the driver..

“The lifestyle in Lagos is pure madness. People are selfish, always looking out for themselves and no one else. It is I, me and myself. And honestly, I see that as primitive. Dog eat dog kind of life.”

Genetics is something that can behave in such a funny way that you can see two very black couple giving birth to a light complexioned baby or even children. I have seen it happen…”.

The homeward journey this Thursday evening was quite interesting as the parliamentarians gave a good account of themselves, discussing very serious national issues interlaced with humour, thus making the otherwise stressful journey an interesting one. A commuter, Ike, opened the floor when he described the statement credited to IBB to the effect that nothing will stop him from contesting as president, as an affront and insult to Nigerians.

Wonder of wonders! We claim to have all these powers in Africa and yet we are so poor and backward,” said Steve. Didn’t you hear about what happened last Wednesday at Ijaiye where a woman called two children to come help her read a text message on her cell phone.

“No, I don’t believe that. To prove that point, the report said that those arrested included daughters of serving senators and state assembly members, and one of the customers is a driver of a General in the Nigerian Army. So tell me, was it poverty that drove them into this?” asked Tosin.

“O boy, read it out loud please,” a number of commuters pleaded with Iyke who said tongue-in-cheek: “You guys should not disturb me. After all you saw the vendor or do you think the papers are for decoration? They are for sale, so go and buy your own,” thereupon he began to read the story aloud to the hearing of all.