Nigerian Music
Eedris Abdulkareem – Jaga Jaga
There’s no better moment to revisit the highly contentious song “Jaga Jaga” by Eedris Abdulkareem, which brought him into conflict with Olusegun Obasanjo, the president of Nigeria at the time, and was eventually taken off the radio due to its allegedly unsatisfactory lyrics regarding the happenings in our country.
We’ve reached the stage where we need to be reminded of some of the topics he sung about as election season approaches.Now turn off your computer, hit play, and experience this!
Quotable Lyrics
(Chorus)
Nigeria jaga jaga
Ev everything scatter scatter,
poor man dey suffer, suffer
(gbosa, gbosa) gun shoot
inna the air (x2).
Verse 1
Armrobber came your house
Eno take money Eno
Rape your wife
went straight to your house
side and shot you down
Which arm robber now want money
Na which arm robber no want jolly
na political arm robber be that
na wetin dey kill Nigeria. O
(Chorus x2)
If you see kiamo bia bia dem
Lock am for
jail for Abuja Akinsley Agbe
Himself dey for there Ade
Gbedo na him, They feed all of
them (ye pa) inside
Prison prison everything
scatter, scatter poor man
Dey surfer, surfer (gbosa, gbosa)
gun shoot
inna the air (x2)
