Article ' WHERE IS FIVE NAIRA'

Where's this money; when Nigeria was Nigeria. But, what am I saying? Weren't not the same Nigeria we have been living? I could flash back. Some years back. I could have gotten my needs with this note. I couldn't even craggy-knock my mouth with five naira note. Then, when miss. Would enter our class, doing our primary school period. She would be asking questions, and promised who gotten an answer, a five naira note. Can It betide again? With a note that our nation has turned to useless with our economy. Of a child who's going to school In the cockcrow, can this five naira note  buy him/her  a pencil? Even It can't buy a satchel, even  what's Inside It.

Please, are we not In Nigeria?  Some years back, when Literature was oral. Storytelling, proverb-telling. Then, Baba Agba ( Old-man) would sleep on his "Agban'ti ara" (Old-men bed) chewing a piece of acacia-tree. Baba would congregate us; when the sun Is moving to It abode. Telling us stories; Asking us questions, and promise who gotten an answer some Cowries. Please, are we not In the same Nigeria?

It's like the same Nigeria? That cowries were used as a currency exchange. And rat voiced like rat, and human beings voiced like human beings. Are we not In the same pitch-dark compound? When the head would feed his families till toes, with five-naira. Are we moving up or down? How far about our economy It's not like  "Abiku" that Wole Soyinka and J.P Clark expressed In their poems? Growingly, It was moving well before, I mean when Nigerian were In black-White. and changes to hell when Nigeria are moving on with their darkness-views.

Where Is five-naira? That I was using to buy Spicy-biscuit, Speedy-biscuit, even pure-water. Are we not In Nigeria again.

Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi.