Nigerian Universities lament…
Are we not akin to nursing mothers?
With maternal tenderness and compassion, we breed.
Etiquettes and knowledge in our students
Isn’t it from our breast they suckle?
The milk of freedom and wisdom
To enable them differentiate right from wrong
And to make their future bright
But melancholically, with choppers, these tyrants unceasingly chopped off our udders.
Who delivers us from the clutches of tyrants in the jungle?
Nigerian students lament
Dear Mother, beloved patron of our course.
In every whisper, they hear your anguish
In lieu of salvation, to the ground, they malevolently choose to turn their ears.
From the serenity of academic society, they always exile us
To the ennui of waiting idly in our parents’ home
When and what will halt this malice?
When do we have our basic rights to education?
Who will shake sense in the diseased brain of these monsters?
Who can deliver us from their shackles?
Inhabitants of Northern Nigeria lament.
Our beloved students and varsities
Your blues and agonies we are sorry for…
By her visage, we say the country is extremely sick
And remedy from the omnipotent Lord we should only seek
Strong security measures they feigned
Yet in homes, our lives are at stake
We are famished but our farmlands irrigate with our blood
Enroute to worship, work, business places we are waylaid
Quotidian reports place our pogroms and theft at a toll of hundreds of thousands rate
But to the mercy of the blood-sucking beast we are always left.
Chorus: God we are helpless in the hands of tyrants.
Only You can deliver us from the clutches of their mischief…
Abba Muhammad Tawfiq is a 500L Medical Rehabilitation Student University Of Maiduguri.
