Nigerian Poems

Three Nigerian Christians

June 2024, in Borno state, Nigeria,
three young Nigerian Christian men,
knelt with hands tied behind their backs,
under the fiery African sun.
Then shot dead into eternity by Islamic State
West Africa gunmen.

Rev Ibrahim Abako, secretary of the Yobe State
Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria
condemned the murders.
The martyred men of Christ,
with their King, their Savior.
Nigeria's Christians' blood on

The Nigerian Super Eagles

In the land of Nigeria, strong and bold,
Super Eagles soar, stories to be told.
To the final they’ve flown, no easy feat,
God’s grace and hard work, a victorious beat.

Nwabali guards, a goalkeeping gem,
Protection’s force, a powerful emblem.
Ekong, a titan, no one dares defy,
In the field, his strength reaches the sky.

As the final whistle nears, in the

A Reminder To Nigerian Current President, Dr Bola Ahmad Tinubu

A reminder to Nigerian current president, 
Oh ! Uncle president Bola Ahmad Tinubu, 
One of the  seniors African politicians 
who could direct the youths well not to hell.  
Your honorary doctorate in political science 
and diplomacy will continue making sense 
to the African youths if you Act well not hell. 

Where is your senior President

Nigerian Police Station

Once, I was there to check a tall Zaki
And it became reason to meet khaki,
Very clean but most offices tacky:
A cop could turn one into a lackey!
 
I know The Police is for the Nation
But I shan’t again a Police Station;
A world plainly paramilitary,
Safer, not better than Solitary,
In every station, obvious gyration;
Canteens that could serve

Nigerian Changes Money

While walking around like Satan
I met today’s Weaker Nathan
And was set to accuse the brethren
Then not in church with his children…

Because of the feared dead line
For end of old currency,
Now in banks yielding a scared line
And scenes of genuine urgency!

“Sunday and you’ve priest abandoned!
God! This fool shouldn’t be pardoned 
Elder and his pastor Burden…

Let me

Nigerian Patriot In Us Detroit

Ade is a Nigerian patriot
But permanent in US’ Detroit,
There, charming Nigerian Flag hoisted,
Bared schemes upon him foisted…

Ade, The Rare Nigerian Patriot,
Scarcely planning to leave Sweet Detroit,
Shall unfailingly shoot all of them,
Giving his Giant. causeless problem:
Politicians who might risk Rigging
He’d begun their graves a-digging:
For them the cheapest US caskets,
A little costlier than Mum’s baskets;
Never to stubborn

Rise Nigerian Youth

Hello Nigerian youth!
How are doing? 
I salute your courage
I salute your resolve
To take back your country 
Bedeviled by evils of unimaginable proportion 
That threaten and becloud your future 
You are leaders of today 
Making you believe otherwise 
Tantamount to fraud
Say no to divide and rule tactics 
A booby trap to keep you subjugated 
Stand firm

Challenged Nigerian Pharmacists

The Roadside Medicine Sellers
Are Pharmacists' bold tellers
Of an enduring contest
Not unlike a weighted test!

Ever waxing Drug Dealers
Competing as Sure Healers
But spinning laughing profits
For all their being cursed misfits!

Shame to legalizing Laws
Unbolting illegal doors,
Patent Medicine - obtained Rights
A From - Reality Fool's flights 
That often drop a body
For a post -  Morten study

What a crazy

A Paragon For Nigerian Youths

Like a cheetah that's a natural born sprinter
Tobi Amusan is the world fastest female sprinter
And like an American Quarter Horse
Tobi Amusan has become a discourse

Having proven to be the world best
In Oregon's and Birmingham's contest
The hurdler's emergence is certainly unsudden
A lesson for he who with his ambition plays chicken

Like every tree with a seed to

The Nigerian Politician

Bloated belly, swollen cheeks,
and a sunken stiff neck on robust torso.
Yet well fitted in flowing apparels;
falling and being raised frequently
from side to side.
Obscene opulence is your delight,
your prestige and your pride;
amassed unlawfully by the pen,
ever wet for your deception
and thievery.
The flight of your spoils of office
enlarge the shopping Malls and treasure houses
of the Occident,
leaving your

Ageing Nigerian Politicians

Ageing Nigerian Politicians
Being made younger by beauticians;
Their millions for Plastic Surgery,
Their wealth for Good Imagery;
The emptiest resolve to seem The Youth:
A Soon-To-Be Blind sees its sad truth…

Ageing Nigerian Politicians,
Richly trusting nice rhetoricians
Like the Pharisees did their synagogues;
A fat faith in settled demagogues,
Who a lot could lift from The Bible
And into a rally walk with The

Nigerian Libraries of Yesterday

Repositories of The British-Donated:
Of texts like bombs detonated;
Books from their libraries discharged;
The-Given-Out, not a dime charged …

A Harvest of The Happily Released
Because of The New that must be increased;
Books that have lost The Right to Remain There,
Better reasonably dumped elsewhere
Between The Hard paper Back
Like strong keys to hack
And The Partly Fragile of Skin 
Whose sight

A Nigerian Town With My Footprints

Visibly wore she my footprints
While bore I a Restarted Scholarship,
In 1993 flaunting The Dullest Glints
With streets that rather mirrored hardship …

Okigwe was The Sometimes Chilly
And irritably The Hilly
A thing of sure hatred by Asthmatic Roads Users
And of as sure by Escaping Criminal Losers …

I’ve heard ‘By An Embittered Dweller cursed’
And since A Metaphor for The

Proud of That

I am a Nigerian 
I am proud of that
I am an African 
I am content with that
I am a citizen of the world 
I am elated by that
I am created in His image and likeness 
I give Him thanks for that
I am a solution to my neighbor’s problem 
I am  blessed for that
The Lord

Nigerian Preachers and Scary Sermons

Till tomorrow a nasty style
Nigerians stretch a bold mile:
Sermons which begin with obituary 
And proceed to The Mortuary…
 
The Waiting Choice of Deaconess Emmanuela 
Seeking and discovering The Best Umbrella 
For mandating sinners’ fastest repentance 
Of deeds that might no more clinch penance. 

Also, of Pastor Prince at war with Theological Schools, 
Because break a

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