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If you can’t take a joke or see the funny side of every situation no matter how stultifying, your Nigerian-ness is suspect. This is the land of the happiest people on the planet. One day, one wonder.

Every frown eventually creases into a smile. A Nigerian will tell you that,“I can’t come and go and kill myself because of any problem”. He deploys humour to neutralise latent tension, making lemonade out of the lemon of his circumstances.



Nobody outside the inner sanctum of power saw the change of the Nigerian national anthem coming. The issue was not even trending at the time the government decided to spring it out like a jack-in-the-box. The speed of the passage of the bill to revert to the old colonial anthem must rank among the fastest in the history of the legislature in Nigeria.

And the president signed it into law immediately to press it into service without further delay. Old Anthem Resurrects And the old anthem written by British expatriate Lillian Jean Williams with music composed by Frances Berda, became the new — just like that? Arguments are still raging on both sides of the divide as always. Senator Shehu Sani argues that, “Tampering with or changing the National Anthem or National Pledge of Nigeria should be done after wider public consultation and should be factored in the process of constitutional amendments.

” In the same vein, the Country Director of Action Aid Nigeria (AAN), Mr. Andrew Mamedu, in an interview with Daily Trust on Sunday, said the .

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