…if gold rust, what
then will iron do? For if a priest be foul, no wonder common man should rust—Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) English poet
and author.
Evicted from Heaven for pride and rebellion against God
countless thousands of years ago, the devil would hardly be expected to move in
the mundane details of mortal man here on earth. But alas that has been his
business, meddling in the affairs of puny man. He is everywhere man is:
bedroom, market, school, politics, institutions, government, environment,
mosque, church, heathen centres and even pagan or atheist abodes. He must order
disorder where there is order, as he sought to do in serene and symmetrical
Heaven. That is if you allow him.
The arch recidivist has also been at work at the University
of Lagos, UNILAG, Nigeria’s foremost institution ranking as the 12th
in Africa. He has cooked noxious menu ready to consume all the parties,
including those we presume are our beautyful
ones, by the standard of Ghanaian novelist, Ayi Kwei Armah. What is on the
table that Nigerians must not take from the devil?