Bus Stop Parliament

‘’Hmm! We can’t continue like this in this country oo. Something has got to give,” said Carol, a commuter in the CMS-bound bus as a lady complained about how much she spent on just bread for breakfast. “My problem with us as a people is that we are too docile. We can complain from now till eternity, yet refuse to do anything to change the situation. We will rather keep adjusting and readjusting like the toad placed in a pot on fire with water. As the temperature of the water rose, the toad kept adjusting its own temperature to suit the surrounding temperature until it died,” said Comfort.

“I swear wahala dey. No money, no food, no light, no water,” lamented Julie, a passenger in the CMS-bound commuter vehicle. “A derica cup of rice is now N250 up from N150; small paint bucket of garri is N650, tomato nko? No go area. God please we need your intervention before we perish oo.”

“I swear wahala dey. No money, no food, no light, no water,” lamented Julie, a passenger in the CMS-bound commuter vehicle. “A derica cup of rice is now N250 up from N150; small paint bucket of garri is N650, tomato nko? No go area. God please we need your intervention before we perish oo.”

“Oh Chineke God, deliver us from this wahala. Is this what we voted for? The suffering is too much,” lamented Patrick, a commuter in the Apapa-bound bus, in reference to the long queues at petrol stations, often spilling into the road and obstructing the free-flow of traffic.

“Are we moving forward or going backwards?” asked Simon in the CMS-bound commuter vehicle.

When you think you have seen it all in Nigeria, another season of the movie begins,” said Chris, a commuter in the Apapa-bound commuter bus this Thursday morning as the newscaster gave updates on Ese Oruru, the 14-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in Bayelsa State and taken to Kano State.

I’ve never seen a set of people who crave imported goods more than Nigerians; so much so that somebody once said if excreta is packaged and imported from abroad, they will buy,” stated Emmanuel this Friday morning in the Apapa-bound bus.

there is nothing like Abacha loot. You cannot probe what does not exist except of course you are a magician. As for Halliburton, it is a no-go area and he knows it. The people involved are powerful and have a dossier on him so if he exposes them, they will expose him too,” said Tony.

‘BUT wait oo, what is this talk about President Buhari favouring the part of the country where he got more votes than the part where he got less?” asked David, a commuter in the Mile Two-bound bus as people discussed a statement credited to the President during his visit to the US.