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Sunday, February 11, 2018

2018 – Trouble Settles In Nigeria


By Kole Omotoso
It started small, like all big things.
Little drops of water
Little grains of sand
Make the Gobi Desert
And the sea by the strand.



As part of his settlement Mr. Trouble married Miss Rachelle Palaver. Miss Palaver was a gentle woman and although she now became Mrs. Trouble she remained an oasis of peace and tranquility in the midst of Palaver and Trouble. She wrote her name as Mrs. Rachelle Palaver/Trouble. It was later corrected as Mrs. Rachelle Palaver-Trouble. But this is not the matter of this piece, but for later on. For now, it is 2018 and the coming federal elections of 2019. Not about them either but about what it caused to happen in the country – carpet crossing.