As Nigerians, we love to use the names of those who have achieved. If there is anything we love more than award ourselves with titles, its to attach to and name drop. A man opens a small shop in Peckham and a few months later, he travels home to boast about his new supermarket store in the 'heart' of London, before he could say, "I love my country", he had been awarded a doctorate in business management from the university that refused him entry a few years earlier. Now the guy calls himself a Doctor, forgetting its just an honourary title. This is not the first time Africans have done this, Zik and Nkuruma did this as well. In time, its difficult to know who is who?.

There is now a proliferation of compound names, children desperately trying to ride on the back of the names created by their parents rather create their own names.

So, instead of saying "do you know who i am"?. Its better to say, "do you know who my father is"?.

Its like a bully who struggles to get his way on the play ground asking for reinforestment from his father to beat up other kids. Why win an election based on policies, when you can on the basis of your name or who you know.

You are rarely expecting a saintly behaviour from the son or daughter of a thief?.

In time, a plain Mister with simple surname will become a rarity, well, i can only hope.

I find Nigerians the most colourful people ever to grace the world. So, our country is in a mess, we are all scattered across the world like headless chickens. At the first sign of trouble, we run to church to pray for deliverance. Even the scammers, the drug peddlers, the embezzlers all run to the same church as the victims to ask for protection.

Every idiot now has a church, what is more worrying is that we have even bigger idiots donating to those mushroom churches to make the pastor richer. Starting a church is big business, especially if you can convince the mugs into donating 10% of their earnings, a case of the pastor growing richer, whilst the congregations starve.

Can this people not see the wood from the tree?

The Pastors are now like coaches and personal trainers, most of these guys run the churches like businesses. In years to come, we will all find out that the greatest legitimate scammers are the pastors who are able to charm your money out of your pockets. Wake up and smell the coffee, unless you are doing good business in the church, get the hell out of the place. You probably know the bible more than the poor soul at the alter.

By the way, who is solving our problems and developing our nation whilst we all seat down in churches for endless hours. The same people then spend all their hard earned money on some stupid parties to be shown on BenTV.

As a group, Nigerians attend churches more than most people, yet the country is riddled with anti social behaviours, because we would rather someone else solves our problem for us than tackle them.

How can we claim to be so educated and yet to dumb?.