The big news today isn’t the fact that I was perplexed and glued to my PC viewing images of body bags being dragged away from debris resulting from an explosion in Kano or Kaduna State, but the pronouncement or rather, the utterances by Dame Patience Jonathan, Nigeria’s first lady.

Maybe I should have taken a break today but after reading her speech with some emphasis on insecurity, I was forced to push my break aside. Now, this is not the first time madam has been in the “hot-soup” by the media because of some careless statements credited to her, but this one was really scary. I can only imagine if her personal assistant(s) who writes her speech has any level of education, or maybe Madam likes dis-regarding words from her scripted paper just like our western friends most often do.

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