The Minister & The Parable of Jollof Rice
If you are in tune with the news on social media, you will definitely be in the know of the epic goof of 2017 given on behalf of the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in an interview with CNN’s Richard Quest. Just to remind you my dear reader, Richard Quest asked the Minister “Which country makes the best Jollof Rice” to which even to the daftest, totally incoherent and irredeemably dumb fellow, the answer would be only too obvious. His response was “Mmmmmm, Senegal”. Richard Quest repeated the word “Senegal?” as though trying to give our “Honorable” Minister a lifeline to recover should his thinking faculty have frozen at the presence of the renowned CNN Business & Travel anchorman, only for the former(or Emeritus) top APC Propagandist replied in a tone synonymous with Nigerians as “a matter of fact”- “Yes, Senegal!” All this happened with the minister grinning sheepishly. Historically, to say that CNN and other western media have been anything but less than gener...
