“When social rules are so rigid nearly everyone has something to hide.” -Sigmund Freud

The exhausting redundancy of Nigerian Igbo baiting and animus. (Bello, dressing up conjecture as fact, is proof positive that even the most intelligent minds are not immune to buckling, enfeebled by the weight of tribalism and the great misfortunes of his country).

A vacuum bomb (Thermobaric weapon) works by scattering a cloud of fuel into an area. A second charge ignites the cloud and creates a massive fireball/blast wave that sucks nearly all the available oxygen in the area. This is a metaphor for Nigerian politics. Money being the bomb

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Franz Schubert. Commemorating the death of Schubert with “Drei klavierstücke” and “Moments Musicaux” (Schubert sadly died at the young age of 31. Brahms edited the 3 piano pieces he left behind and published them under the collective title, “Drei Klavierstücke”)

“Just look at the degree on that chick!” A ravishingly beautiful and clever woman. I’m sliding into her DM

Mood. Alexander Scriabin, The Complete Etudes (Garrick Ohlsson). Quietude. Enlivened by an essential turbulence

A Brigadier-General is murdered. Terrorists, kidnapping syndicates and non state actors are unrestrained and thriving. Nigeria’s security situation has gone from alarming to catastrophic. We need to deal with the problem in bite size chunks. Regional restructuring is imperative

#NowPlaying Vidushi Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, “Raag Bhairavi” Divine. Celestial. (Indian classical. One of my favorite ragas performed by my favorite artiste)

Glib and saccharine. Next time you “receive” a message about Ndi Igbo for your apocalyptic theatre of fickle followers and unresisting prey, just take your meds.

SUNDAY PHILOSOPHY “Observe your life, between two breaths. Breadth is a wind, both coming and going. On this wind you have built your life – But how will a castle rest on a cloud?” - Avicenna (Abu Ali Sina, Ibn Sina), 980-1037.

"Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” - William Congreve (1697 play, “The Mourning Bride”)

#NowPlaying Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, W389: Aria (Cantilena) by Anna Moffo, Leopold Stokowski & American Symphony Orchestra

"Do not build monuments to the living, for they can still disgrace the stone."

A lack of empathy or low empathy could easily mask psychopathology, specifically sociopathy (ASPD) or narcissism, etc. Anyhow, in Schopenhauer’s ethics, whatever shows “too great a solicitude for one’s own person” lacks a noble character.

The Nigerian state is a perversion of the cohesive and coordinated or structured modern democratic state; a grifter’s idea of paradise. A Potemkin construct. A bland simulacrum.

In Christian theology Postlapsarian refers to an event of Fall and Expulsion. Adam and Eve taste the Forbidden Fruit, expelled from the garden of Eden. A cosmic mortal sin from which no one is exempt. In the PBAT government, Wike is Adam and no one is exempt from his moral stain

A thoroughly egotistical and prideful entity ‘inured to brutality and accustomed to prerogative’ who gives himself over to rascality and turpitude that will ultimately devour him. Shakespeare’s Macbeth, consumed by his own desire for power, easily comes to mind

‘Immigrants are animals.’ ‘Mormons are not Christians.’ ‘Protesters are Marxists, radicals, and Islamists, anti-American.’ “Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence" - Ibn Rushd, d. 1198 CE

In an open letter addressed to the Honourable Minister of Finance, Mr Adebayo Olawale Edun of the @FinMinNigeria, I unveiled a bold vision that has the potential to unlock a staggering ₦1.5 Quadrillion in dormant value. By reforming land titles, establishing a robust credit

Loving your country, and acknowledging its dark truths and shortcomings and criticizing it for these reasons, are not mutually exclusive. As Oscar Wilde reminds us, blind “patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." A tool for scoundrels and the morally corrupt