Failure Government of Nigeria (FGN)
It is arguably true that the main goal of communication is to pass information. Sometimes, when communicating ideas, the actual meanings in a message may not be understood by its receivers. In other times, the actual meanings may be deliberately hidden in the messages. In Nigeria, many meanings are hidden beneath what the people see regularly and that is why the abbreviation FGN means and remains the Federal Government of Nigeria to millions of people. That is what we were thought in our primary and secondary school days. Even in textbooks, the meaning of the abbreviation is the same, as long as the three-letter signifier is used in the Nigerian context. However, the emergence of Covid-19 virus from China and its spread to Nigeria have exposed the actual meaning of the abbreviation. With hunger and starvations as the dividends of the lockdown, as enforced by the administration of Muhammadu Buhari, the consciousness of the affected gained a new insight that the abbreviation means the Fa...