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Egbon Jimoh (Episode 27): Extreme Poverty… not news

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Mazi, you hear wetin world bank talk?

Egbon, allow me to die first before you bury me; I never even land finish you don dey question me. Okay, wetin dem talk?

That extreme poverty may hit Nigeria in 2020

Mtshw. That one na news, look around you; you think say extreme poverty never reach? With all the hunger wey dey everywhere

You know wetin extreme poverty be? Extreme poverty means that a high percentage of the country will be food insecure; do you know what that means?

No Egbon I don’t. I don’t know what you are talking about; all I know is that there are people who are very hungry in this very moment and do not know where their next meal will come from

Tor Mazi that’s the meaning of food insecure, now World Bank is saying that the amount of people like that in this country will increase next year

Who that announcement epp? Abeg jare all these bad prophesies everywhere don tire me

No be prophesy na economic prediction

Ehen what is the difference? Are they not all predicting the future? By the way did you hear that NUC has discovered one hundred fake professors?

I read the news o. I believe if them reach one hundred, there will be more.

I Agree, but I get one question. Why now? Are they trying to tell us that 100 fake professors have been working in the educational system for how many years and there are just finding that out? Is that NUC has not been doing its job before?

This one wey you ask so na jamb question and as I don write my own jamb over thirty something years ago pass; I no fit answer that your question. At least them don finally discover the fake professors; at all at all na em bad pass

Gbam. Federal government don finally collect Saraki house

How many dem collect?

E be like say na two but he wan contest am for court

He go contest before now; Saraki mess up sha, after all the power we en show for office see where e come land

Na so politics be, one moment you are the king of the world and another moment yawa don gas; nothing is permanent in politics.

Indeed, not even enemies and friends. Today your enemy can become your friends and vice versa; that is why I can never join politics

Haha. Police don dey arrest pastors wey dey do fake miracles for Lagos

Ehen. That is wonderful news. Ahn Ahn I am happy to hear this; this miracle business for this country don dey too much

Honestly, the length at which some of these so called pastors go in order to perform miracles and increase their church members is something else

Didn’t you hear about the one that they gave the man injection to make it look as if he was dead, they took him to church to pray and the man did not wake up again; that is how his wife started confessing that the pastor paid them to help him perform miracle of raising the dead

My goodness, so the man died?

He died o

Which type of injection did they give him like that?

I know? They said it will make the person look dead for some hours then the person will wake up during the pastor’s prayer and people will think that he raised the dead

How much did he pay them to do this?

I don’t know, maybe two hundred thousand naira

Two hundred thousand naira!? For my life?

Not your life Mazi, the man’s life

Tufiakwa… there is nothing people will not do for money. I thought you were going to say ten million naira

Ten million ke, if the pastor has ten million naira to dash people, do you think he will be looking for members with fake miracle?

Hmmm. Nawa o. Egbon, Buhari no wan open boarder o; which kind life be this now?

Where you come dey go? You wan go use hand open the boarder by yourself?