BORROWED YEARS

Life has been unfair
Throwing bricks on my path
I could not hide from the storm
And unable to journey very far

I tried to find shelter in the storm
With every breath within me
I fight to move on
Despite my vision is unclear

Days turned into months
Life got the best of me
Determined never to be weary
Yet keep fighting for what I believe in

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Buhari says he's committed to reducing poverty, hunger in Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari says reducing extreme poverty and hunger is one of the cardinal's objectives of his administration. The president stated this in a keynote address at the Nigeria high-level side event on ‘SDG Integration – Bridging the Policy Planning – Budgeting Gap for the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.’  

President Buhari at the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA74) on Tuesday in New York. Stated that the rate of poverty in Nigeria is the root cause of insecurity in the country. But forgot to address corruption among politicians, cabinent members and government officials which have resulted in inadequate economy planning and poor governance. There is a lot of abandon projects all over the country, not to mention the billions of dollars injected into the power generation project annually, yet there is barely electricity supply to last the citizenry for 24 hours.

Education is crippled and deteriorating by the day yet no one seems to notice anything wrong with it. Healthcare system is outdated, which has resulted indeed constant growth of human mortality rate. Is it that our leader is cursed by their covetousness for wealth that has made them indifferent to the well-being of the masses who voted them in? Or maybe I am the one hallucinating and probably out of my mind.

Life in Nigeria for an average is as a basis of survival of the fittest. Having three Square meals has now become a luxury many households cannot afford to achieve. Yet we pay bills, upon bills and constant hype in taxes which government heightens anytime they try to find a new standard to embellish their pockets. We are made to believe that the Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSF) component is feeding almost 10 million school pupils daily and empowering over 90, 000 local catering staff across the country. I strongly doubt where these statistics data is derived from.

Nigerians need to wake up to reality, that our so-called leaders do not have our best interest in heart, how come the labor demand for the new minimum wages for worker have yet to see the light of the day, despite deliberation on meetings with government over the months. Isn't this obvious that it is a case of every man for himself. 

No wonder there has been raising casualties to suicide, kidnapping, ritualism, arms bandit, boko haram killings recorded lately.  Someone needs to take the blame for this injustice. But will the dilemma ever be curbed and the country's economy work clockwise? 

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It is never unduly late
To make a choice that is right
The moon may be up
While the sun may be down

It does not mean life can not put up a smile
The stars and moon carves a beautiful life
Just as much the sun brings warmth
To the world after the winter is gone

The man pulling a chart across the street
Might not be affluent as someone
In a multi-million dollars office
It does not imply he can not sustain his family

The trees do not plead to the earth for water
Yet she grows tall and reaches the sky
And the birds seek shelter in her bosom
The earth restored by the little seeds that fall off her heels

Life sometimes teaches us hard lessons
Like we have to till the ground to harvest
A man does not need to fight for freedom
The heart got all the resources she needs

Watch around you oh beloved brother
Does death have the mandate?
Knocking at a helpless woman's door
Stop the hate, life will be restored with happiness

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