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The Tortoise’s Dictionary

Abuja: A country created out of Nigeria by those who spoiled Nigeria and for those who spoiled Nigeria.

Abuja: A country created out of Nigeria by those who spoiled Nigeria and for those who spoiled Nigeria.

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ACN: A shop set up by Bola Tinubu to force PDP to pay him for a landslide.
 
Aso Rock: A prison built specifically for the man who holds the key to the Central Bank vaults.
 
Babangida: A Nigerian politician who achieved what was once thought impossible – he syndicated corruption.
 
Board of Directors of Political Parties: Crooks who impersonate statesmen.
 
Campus: A training camp for future pastors, politicians and prostitutes.
 
Columnists: Pundits who practice cash for hand, column for ground.
 
Congregation: Normal people who do not know they are not ordinary.
 
Comrade: A man who still wears a safari suit even when the temperature is over 100 degrees centigrade.
 
CPC: A vehicle used by Sani Abacha’s son to launder his father’s loot.
 
Daddy (in the Lord): A general overseer who has walked on top of water just to show off.
 
Deacon/Deaconess: A title you get when you are too contaminated to be a pastor and yet too valuable- for your tithe – to be an ordinary floor member.
 
Defriend: To clean out ones’ Facebook friend’s list. It usually involves taking out haters, trouble making lovers, jealous former lovers, convicted former friends and dead friends.
 
Diaspora: Stupid and unimaginative cowards busting their behinds abroad to make $100,000 a year – an amount senators earn in a month without breaking sweat.
 
Diplomat: A failed politician who as a reporter for his country sees no evil, hears no evil and reports no evil.
 
EFCC: An agency that pulls down the pants of a disfavored crook until the crook drops something.
 
Election: A means of resetting the musical chair of politicians involved in the stealing game.
 
Enough is Enough: A preferred expression of men without balls.
 
Evangelists: A title given to a man or woman who has graduated from preaching inside luxurious buses.
 
Evolution: A process of seamlessly mashing the new breed politicians with the old breed without leaving a stretch mark.
 
Facebook: A safe heaven for a president who wants to be liked and befriended but knows not how to earn them.
 
Friends of a politician: Groupies willing to be screwed for a drop of juice from a politician’s table.
 
GCFR: A title given to a certified criminal who the State considers too big to be arrested.
 
General Overseer: Any man who is able to convince a group of people that he was at the manger when Jesus was born.
 
Honorable: A title given to those who are allergic to honor.
 
Immunity: Like a bullet proof vest given as a baptismal gift to armed robbers.
 
Intellectuals: People whose only job is to think for their country- even if the country is burning and their bucket is full of water.
 
Jegajega: A natural progression from Wuruwuru.
 
Jonathan: Too humble to be strong, too clueless to be great and too weak to put it all together.
 
Junk: The thing stuffed inside the brain compartment of a Nigerian politician. Researchers at the University of Lagos believe it is made of saw dust soaked in cunning fluid.
 
Marriage: The last bus stop for a wife and the first pick up point for mistresses.
 
National Assembly: A place where $1,000,000 a year earners decide if it is time for millions of $1 a day earners to be paid $2 a day.
 
Niger Delta: A compost site where farmers get crude oil.
 
Nollywood: Film makers who celebrate the very things Nigerians want to hide.
 
Okija Shrine: A launch pad for the black man’s predator drone. Important people go there to buy immunity from attack by depositing their DNA in its sensory portal.
 
Olusegun Obasanjo: A politician who has mastered the art of keeping himself trending by pissing down his leg.
 
Pastors: Ordinary people who do not know they are not normal.
 
PDP: A party that is so fraudulent that it buys more votes than is necessary to win every election.
 
Personal Assistant: A well-dressed politicians’ baby sitter who also picks up laundry from the drycleaners.
 
Pointblanknews: News made up by reliable sources.
 
Pundits: Journalism equivalent of charge-and-bail lawyers.
 
Radical: A vocal politician with no record of doing anything.
 
Rogue: A politician who plays with himself.
 
Security vote: An unspecified amount of money given to governors and other chief executives to encourage them to steal government money.
 
Snob: Like a woman who won’t swallow.
 
Stakeholders: A group of foxes with blood stains on their mouths and loot in their pockets.
 
State House of Assembly Members: A group of idiots put together for the sole purpose of sanctioning whatever idiotic idea the idiot-in-chief sends down to them.
 
Testimony: Public rehearsal of would-be- Nollywood actors, typically in front of a church’s congregation.
 
Thugs: Unemployed men who exploit politicians’ desire to always have people around them.
 
Worker: A title given to a man or woman in church who is still preaching inside the molue.
 
Youth Corpers: Lambs sacrificed on the altar of national unity. Usually youths sent to a part of the country they will never live in, by a nation that never cares about them, for a mission the nation cannot articulate.

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