The sad situation experienced by most Nigerians today is comparable to that experienced by a family that lost a very young and promising bread-winner. It is also like that of the family of a couple who had a child after several years of bareness ad suddenly lost the miraculous child to the cold hands of death mysteriously.

The present gloomy condition of Nigeria and Nigerians are caused by several factors. Among them are tribalism, nepotism, religious intolerance, political manipulations, insecurity, especially in the Northern part of the country, and economic crisis, among other causes.

What is happening in Nigeria today is far more than what has caused wars in many other countries of the world. It is more than enough to trigger a full-scale war, yet we have continued to remain warless; not necessarily in peace.

Ironically, as tension is building up continually in Nigeria and causing Nigerians tension, so also are funny things happening in different parts of Nigeria. Below are some of those funny things for your perusal and enjoyment.

1. A lady attended the wedding party of one of her friends some Saturdays ago and returned early enough to be able to attend choir practice at her church. As she was removing her trouser suit in order to put on a blouse and a skirt, her friend who had just arrived her house asked her: “Won’t this waste your time? Why not go for your choir practice as you are now until you return from church?

The visitor had hardly finished offering her suggestion when the lady in suit exclaimed: “Ah, do you want my pastor to kill me? Don’t you know that our church preaches against women wearing trousers?”

If a church preaches against women wearing trousers, why then should a female member of the church wear trousers at all? If she wears trousers to parties and not to church, are we not told that God is everywhere?

Now, let’s consider the action of the lady in suit from closer perspective. Since God hates trousers, according to her pastor, why should she wear trousers to party, knowing full well that God is everywhere? In other words, why would she wear trousers to other places and not to church when she knew that God sees us everywhere we go?

What a funny lady, you would say!

1. A man was driving and making calls at the same time some time ago in the Ajah area of Lagos. As he was trying to make a U-Turn at the Ajah Bus-stop, while still making his calls, his new sleek Mercedes Benz 4-Wheel Drive car mistakenly hit a taxi which was painted in yellow and black colours of Lagos State.
   On noticing the damage on the front bumper of his car, the big man alighted from his car furiously, speaking plenty of grammar.

As soon as I noticed his plan to intimidate the taxi driver, I left where I was watching the incident and moved down to the scene-proper.

I didn’t wait to be invited into the matter before telling the policemen that the Mercedes Benz car owner hit the taxi driver because he was driving and making calls at the same time.

While I was testifying against the car owner, another man who noticed what had happened came to the scene and also witnessed against the Mercedes Benz car owner.

It was my intervention and that of the other witness that saved the taxi driver from being intimidated and oppressed. If not for our intervention, the police officers would have dealt ruthlessly with the taxi driver with the influence of the big man with Mercedes Benz car.

Two days later, I saw the same Mercedes Benz car owner at the Victoria Garden City, VGC, Shopping Complex in Lekki, Lagos. I saw him coming out of one of the banks there and he was making calls with his hands-free, which some Nigerians call head phone.

My question here is: why should a sane person drive and make calls at the same time, but make calls with his hands-free while walking on the street?

Isn’t that funny?

NB: Please, feel free to send me any funny thing that you’ve noticed among Nigerians.