Nimi Wariboko honors his Mom

[Toyin Falola]

Today, Nimi will do the celebration of life for his mom at Abonnema. I thought I could be there, an hour’s flight from where I am now, but our dear Africa is not like that! I wanted to be there, and I promised him. To get to Lagos from Banjul, I had to stop in Monrovia, Accra, and Lome, and then catch a flight, 20 minutes, to Lagos. A flight of 3 hours became 12 hours! To go to Mali from Lagos, it is a whole day, if not two,  part of which includes taking a ferry! To go to Yaounde from Lagos, you must first of all travel westwards to connect Eastwards.

 

So, I could get to Port-Harcourt, but for any who has been there before, from one point to another in that city is one hour. And as I realized, if I could get to Port-Harcourt from Yaounde through Abuja, getting back must begin in the afternoon of Sunday, sleeping in a hotel, and commencing the journey on Monday. The road option that used to protect us is no longer reliable---bad roads, police harassment, and kidnappers.

 

Nimi’s Mom will deliver our message to Angels in Heaven to look upon us with mercy. A mother’s prayer always gets to God’s attention fast.

 

Pray for us, Mama, for God to make us like Nimi, a most brilliant scholar, a passionate son of God.

 

Sleep well, the Mama who produced the mind of a Nobel Laureate.

TF

[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

AMEN

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Prof. Wariboko,

I join you in spirit as you celebrate the Mom of motherhood virtues.

TF, I wish you a safe trip back home.

Segun Ogungbemi.  

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[Okechukwu Ukaga]

May mama rest in peace. Thanks for the information. But I can't help but reflect on the following:

"The road option that used to protect us is no longer reliable---bad roads, police harassment, and kidnappers" -TF

More evidence of bad leadership. Until and unless we start demanding better and stop making excuses for bad leadership, things will only get worse. -OU

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