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Nigeria - Sometimes Defy Logic

" Nigerians defy logic, people get killed today, and they look forward to English Premiership football, tomorrow .”- Omojuwa.              Nigerian football fanatics, specifically lovers of  the EPL and European footbal might not like me for my stance on the "craziness" over a game played thousands of miles away on a football field in England or somewhere else in Europe and relayed via the power of technology to millions of faithful of this sport worldwide. Many wonder or even see as unreasonable my comparison in placing side by side the cult follower ship and twitting / facebooking habit of matches while they are being played live on TV against the almost lackadaisical attitude by the bulk of these same Nigerians toward the non ending bomb and gun attacks by an Islamic extremist in the Northern states of Nigeria. Only last week while people where busying themselves hurled up in a football viewing centre in Jos, enjoying a match between Chelsea and Barce