Nigeria, April 6 -- "When beggars die, there are no comets seen; heaven themselves blaze forth the death of princes" - spoken by Calpurnia, Julius Caesar's wife, in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

At first, I took little interest in the Uromi massacre for obvious reasons. How many of such assaults on our sensibilities do we suffer on a daily basis? So, any time I come across them - incessantly - on social media, especially when the authors are kind enough to warn viewers to beware, I delete and move away! To maintain one's good health in today's Nigeria, one must learn to go to Afghanistan, as writers call it. Afghanistanism means avoiding unfortunate issues or ones that could land someone in trouble while preoccupying oneself with ...