Oh! thee rich and fertile land
Embellished with green pastures and milk
Languishing in the hands of the doom agents
Seeking aid from the pallbearer
Hoping to be revive from a massive holocaust.
Oh! thee which had been raped and battered
Stripped off her dignity and pride
In her prime when it ought to be salvaged
But led to the fortune of the framers
Sidelining the labourers and the land itself.
Oh! thee land striving to speak its own language
In disguise of paring the crops and the soil
In more than five decades of nepotism and tribalism
which makes the sky autonomy for its rain
And the soil holding conference on its nutrients.
Oh! thee rich and fertile land
Embellished with crops and crude oil
Languishing in the hands of bad leaders
Seeking aid from the imperialist
Hoping to be revive from her economic recession.
The issue of Reincarnation, Akudaya: A Myth or a Reality? Iya ibeji was a popular Ewa Agoyin seller in the whole of Brown street. She got her fame in the street when she moved from selling ofada rice to Beans. No okada driver or bus driver would pass by iya Ibeji's shop without dashing to eat Ewa Agoyin and Bread. The customers in her shop are always massive just as if the shop is a praying ground. The rate at which the people in the locale patronises her shop is akin to how the pilgrims visit the Holy Land. After my secondary school education, I left Ekiti State to settle down in Lagos with our elderst brother. After my first week in Lagos, I decided to familiarize myself with my new environment. After walking a few miles, then I saw the shop of the infamous Iya ibeji. I dashed to the shop just to get my favorite food "Bread and Beans". On getting there, I saw iya Basira; a woman with three kids who died in an auto crash accident along with her husband some years ago. ...
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