EKITI: NOT A LAUGHING MATTER The above statement, ‘NOT A LAUGHING MATTER’, is a typically Nigerian one, albeit with evident grammatical blotches. The average Nigerian is warm, friendly and loves a good laugh. He can go out of his way to render the sort of help that leaves the beneficiary speechless, charmed and enchanted. However, if even while trading banters, the Nigerian proclaims, and says; ‘This Is Not a Laughing Matter’, please beat a retreat, back off and don’t push any further. For he has just expressed angst, switched to a defiant mode and has moved from being jovial to ill tempered, from being genial to unfriendly. The situation in this country today is not a laughing matter. The sorts of things that happen in this clime are unthinkable and the caliber of persons who rule us, mind boggling. I have lived in this country for a long time but I still find some of the things we are capable of, unfathom...
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