Everything most women want from a man costs money. Everything men want from a woman is free.
Yet even the free things (respect, accountability, and peace), most women still refuse to give.
Some people want developed-country living standards without developed-country obligations. They want clean streets but refuse to stop littering. They want reliable institutions but tolerate corruption when it benefits them. They want order, provided they are not the ones expected to obey the rules.
One of the loneliest experiences in life is being needed by many but cared for by few.
When people value your utility more than your humanity, you begin to realise that being needed and being loved are two very different things.
prioritizing an 11-billion-dollar road over fixing the power grid defies the most basic order of operations in economic development. And they barely even delivered the coastal road. What a country
there is something deeply unsettling about a society that keeps telling people to be more resilient while making the conditions of ordinary life progressively harder to withstand.
This is what Nigerians across all levels don’t understand. We are not all going to get rich, the chance is even slighter in this climate. But we all deserve a decent life, and for that, we must have functioning systems & institutions.