The Madness Called ‘Signing Out’
About a month ago, a friend’s daughter was all over her father discussing her imminent ‘Signing Out’ ceremony. She is 11 years old and the so called ‘Signing Out’ is from Primary Six as she would be heading to Junior Secondary School! The preparation was hectic, a special white shirt was needed, a new hairstyle needed to be made; her nails and all too, should be primed. T4T was amused, but not surprised. The madness called ‘Signing Out’ has infected even nursery school pupils, and it all started when someone introduced it in tertiary schools some years ago. How it started requires a long research to unravel, but it appears it has come to stay and it is getting weirder and weirder by the day with even teachers and lecturers getting involved, shamelessly.
A picture of a lecturer ‘Signing’ with a marker on the breast of a female student emerged online some couple of years ago and of course secondary school students saw it and just recently, a male student was photographed ‘Signing’ on the breast of a female colleague. School authorities across the country seem to be enjoying this ravaging epidemic, but not the Sokoto State government, which recently upheld the ban of all forms of “signing-out” celebrations by graduating secondary school students across the state.
The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Prof Ahmad Ladan Ala, announced that schools would be sanctioned, and parents of students arrested if any event of that nature was ever held again in any secondary schools across the state.
One can argue that the northern state, that may be a Shariah one for that matter acted typical to type, but that other states are still gloating over this modern day madness shows there is a problem! What do nursery, primary and secondary kids know about life that they are ‘Signing Out’? That is even if we have to excuse university graduates who their lives struggles just started o. Now, T4T does not really have much problem with the so called ceremony even with the financial burden it now heaps on the already weak shoulders of parents who feel they may be outshone by other parents at the event and so go the extra mile to make their kids look good in the eyes the public even if it costs them the dinner at home that night, the nudity that is creeping in should make any parent very worried.
So, T4T is of the opinion that it is high time other states picked up the gauntlet from Sokoto and immediately stop this madness even up to the university level because there is no sense in having the official Convocation ceremony by the school authorities and a raunchy ‘Signing Out’ organised by the students.
Happy Married Life, Tubaba, But…
NIGERIA music legend, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as Tu Face, got married to his second wife, Natasha, a lawmaker in Edo State, months after he announced the break-up of his marriage to Annie Macaulay.
That is not the news here.
Many bad belle Nigerians and online in-laws were obviously not too happy when photographs of the traditional marriage came online, so, they had to find a way to ‘kill’ Tu Baba’s joy by claiming he was not looking happy in the photographs, like he was forced to marry Natash baby. Bad belle world people!
Pray, how did these wicked Nigerians perfect the act of knowing who is happy or not just by looking at his face in a photograph? Sebi dem say inner joy is better than the outward one?
Anyway, T4T believes the only way to shame these unhappy Nigerians still sulking over the failure of Tu Face’s first marriage is to make this one work even though Tu Face for women side be like who is suffering from epilepsy, he is no longer a stranger to the land of the dead as every time he goes into an epileptic fit, e be like say na die im die.
If you understand this proverb, na you sabi!
Our Nigeria Police!
NIGERIA policemen are a special breed and T4T is saying this with all sincerity. And so, T4T was watching a video online some couple of days ago where the police were called on a man who was beating his wife who gave birth to a child just four days ago! Just for the records, beating a wife is atrocious; beating a wife who just gave birth to a child four days ago is the height of monstrosity!
In the video, the man was seen cuffed and held in the waistline by two policemen and when the woman who was being asked questions by the ‘good neighbours’ confirmed she just gave birth to a child days ago, one of the policemen instinctively gave the monster of a man a very hot slap. T4T could not help but smile.
I love Nigeria policeman, even when he knew he was breaking the law (by assaulting a suspect in cuffs), with a camera filming him, the Nigerian/African in him had to react because what manner of a man will beat his wife who just gave birth to a child four days ago? Well, American police will pet the monster husband, but not my Nigeria police. Very hot slap, but sha, it does not make oga police right o.
