Busybody Nigerians !

    Terrorism sadly has come to stay. It is tragic that every time we close our eyes, we wake up to news of terrorist attacks all over the world. Everyday, they plot and execute ploys to disrupt the peace of unsuspecting people. I once believed these atrocities were meted out to so called non-believers or infidels. To my horror, unbelief translates to not being a member of their sect. In other words, nobody is safe! For some that have argued that they fight because of the wrongs done to them by world powers, my question is, what about my country that does not have the time to throw missiles. What is our crime?

    While we all went about our daily businesses on the 13th of November, these blood thirsty individuals struck in Paris killing over a hundred persons and maiming over three hundred. I read some online reports and at a point, I shed tears. I cannot understand the rationality of throwing grenades and shooting at unsuspecting people. How is it ever understandable to kill people in the streets for an offence they had no hand in.
      I've read about Islam and asked my Muslim friends questions. In all my research, I have never heard that the Quran supports the killing of innocent people ( correct me if I'm wrong). Please tell me is suicide acceptable too? I doubt that.
   Any ways, that is not the point of this post. I undoubtedly understand the horror that survivors and families of the deceased must feel but then I feel more pain for over thirty thousand displaced Nigerians, the missing Chibok girls and  the two thousand people who died in Baga, Borno state from the 3rd to the 7th of January 2015. Not because dead Nigerians are better than dead French people, but because the death toll in Nigeria is far worse than that of Paris. We are dying more frequently and being displaced quite on a daily basis. My point is, both Nigeria and France suffer the same Ulcer but our sore is more critical.
    I think it has become rather insensitive of most Nigerians especially most social media savvy Nigerians to give relevance to international issues rather than local ones. Since the 13th, I've seen half of my contacts use the "pray for Paris" display picture. Others have decided to show their sympathy by putting up pictures of the French flag on their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
      What could possibly be the justification for these busybody activities?  Could it be the need to feel involved with the affairs of the international community ? Perhaps Nigeria's insurgency lacks that "Hollywood" action . Really, what makes Paris attacks more worthy of world sympathy? Not once have I seen so much attention given to our predicament. I'm not talking about international  attention here, I mean from ourselves! Since we no longer claim patriotism, how about some sympathy for fellow Nigerians?
       Do not misquote me, I am not saying that Paris does not deserve our sympathy or that we try to steal the lime light from them. I am simply asking, are we not taking our show of sympathy too far seeing that we suffer the same situation? If you people have not noticed, people in the north are just as human as any one of us. Just because bombs haven't been detonated in your neighbourhood does not exclude you from the hardships they have been forced to endure. If we must cry for Paris, then we must wear sack clothes, cover our heads in ashes and wail for Nigeria period.
     Going further, do you remember the Ebola crisis? Who still remembers Dr. Adedavoh? Very few Nigerians remember her act of valour and I recall that  few people bothered to use pictures of Dr. Stella Adedavoh as profile pictures and display pictures  but when Fashion Police host, Joan Rivers died, her pictures were all over the Internet and social media. Look at the irony, some one dies to save the life of thousands of Nigerians and we don't give her the grand honour she deserves but someone dies on a cosmetic surgery table and Nigerians post pictures of her like she was a martyr. For crying out loud, our priorities are clearly misplaced .
     For all the pictures and the tweets you put up on your social media accounts, how many times has the president of France called to personally thank you for your heartfelt sympathy and for your prayer-tweets. President Buhari still wouldn't call you to thank you but is it not better to spend your time praying for your own country?
      Yea yea,tell me it's your megabyte and you should decide whose predicament to be sympathetic to but if you must know, France or America cannot decide to make your life better but if Nigeria is made whole, you can thrive here. Wole Soyinka once said " A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, it pounces "! I think it's about time we pounced on our issues. No time!