Glamsquad Dec - Jan 2021

FEATURE
pervades all other considerations.
In this new world, we bandy new
lexicons: PPE, social distancing, two
metres apart, stay at home, stay
safe, save a life...
I must commend the British
Government - they know how to
care for their people. Rishi Suna,
an equivalent of the Minister of
Finance in Nigeria, announced
a palliative scheme that ensured
that Britons do not suffer unduly.
He launched the Furlough System
where the Government paid 80%
of workers’ salary and those who
were out of jobs went unto the
Universal Credit Scheme.
Under the Universal Credit
Scheme, the Government pays
out of job Britons the equivalent
of N200,000 (two hundred
thousand naira) for feeding and,
in some cases, they also pay for
rent. Companies got between
5 and 10 million pounds sterling
to keep them afloat. That way,
everyone stayed home and
maintained social distancing.
Thus, preventing the spread of the
disease by staying at home and
not interacting with others, other
than members of one’s immediate
household, the lifeline of Covid-19
dried off.
Death rates plummeted; from
800 daily deaths, it reduced to 100
and, a few days ago, there were
only three deaths. So, the 5,000
capacity Nightingale Hospital built
and commissioned within two
months, preparatory for the worse,
was not needed after all and is
now closed:
Indeed, the test of authentic
leadership is in how a country takes
care of its own. Now, let me show
you a country that does not care
for its people - Nigeria!
Covid-19 has exposed the
underbelly of the Nigerian
leadership. It has revealed all
the leaders as a crop of selfish,
inconsiderate band of people
who have no compassion and are
clueless about what it takes to be
true leaders!
Happy 60th Anniversary Nigeria!
THEN, THERE WAS
GEORGE FLOYD...
As the White police officer
snuffed life out of George Floyd -
knee to the neck - George cried
out: “Mama, Mama, Mama...”,
before life ebbed out of him.
People think he was calling his
mother for help. I do not believe
that was the case. I think George
saw his mother who had come to
welcome him into eternity.
I believe that as one transitions
into the unseen world of the dead,
one sees dead relatives who
come to usher one into the new
life. George must have seen his
late mother, hence he called out:
“Mama...”. My late mother had a
similar experience. The last words
she said, before slipping into a
coma, were: “Mama. Mama.
Mama...” Then, silence. She never
came back!
There is life after death. It’s like
transitioning from caterpillar to
butterfly. We all as caterpillars, finish
incubating at the caterpillar stage,
then transition into a new form,
in the end - the butterfly. A new
world with no restrictions, no gravity,
free to fly - just like the butterfly:
beautiful and free at last.
What a wonderful world!
And,
Meghan
Markel’s search
for freedom...
The book that detailed Meghan
and Harry’s quest for freedom
from the stifling realities of Royal
Life sold out within days of arriving
on Amazon. I am yet to read the
book. I intend to order a copy but
if snippets of what I have read in
the British press is anything to go by,
Meghan cannot be held liable for
Megixt.
Yet, despite the book saying
so, the British people still blame
Meghan for Harry ditching his
home country for the United States!
I think all the hatred towards
Meghan is because she is biracial.
If she were blonde and blue-eyed,
they would have loved her; if for
nothing else, for the love of Harry’s
late mother. But, with Meghan,
they couldn’t get past that she is
Black. Oh, yes, there is racism in
Britain although, not as glaring and
in-your-face as in Donald Trump’s
America! But it is there, in the polite
way they smile at you or in the way
they turn you down for a job.
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