There's this dangerous programming that has been done on Nigerians and it's really sad to see. Many people don't believe you have the right to anything good, even if you're paying for it.
I complained about Airtel's poor network yesterday and someone replied me with "it's because you don't know the tactics" sigh
Bro! This is 2026
I can't be paying 30k monthly for internet and still be looking for hacks like I'm using opera mini free browser.
What's wrong with us?
I have been thinking about something lately, and the more I think about it, the more disturbing it becomes.
A lot of Nigerians became poor without doing anything wrong.
They didn’t stop working. They didn’t become lazy. They didn’t suddenly become irresponsible.
They simply woke up one day and realised that the money they had worked for could no longer buy the things it used to buy.
Think about someone earning ₦100,000 a month.
The person still wakes up early every morning, goes to work, puts in the same hours, probably works even harder, gets promoted occasionally and does everything society says a responsible person should do.
Yet every year, that person seems to be able to afford less.
At some point, ₦50,000 could buy a reasonable amount of food for the house. Today, you can enter the market with the same ₦50,000 and genuinely wonder where the money went.
Nothing happened to you.
The economy happened to you.
And I think this is something we don’t talk about enough.
Imagine working hard for years, only for circumstances completely outside your control to quietly reduce the value of everything you have worked for.
You didn’t lose your job.
You didn’t lose your salary.
But somehow, you lost your standard of living.
That is poverty too.
And this is why I struggle with the way we sometimes discuss palliatives.
Of course, when people are hungry, you must find ways to help them immediately. There is nothing wrong with providing temporary relief.
But surely, the bigger question should be:
Why did millions of working Nigerians suddenly need palliatives in the first place?
If a man could comfortably buy a bag of rice from his salary a few years ago and today he needs government assistance to buy that same bag of rice, giving him rice may solve today’s hunger.
But it has not solved the actual problem.
The real problem is that his labour has lost value.
And perhaps that is what we should be obsessed with fixing.
How do we make the Nigerian worker’s income valuable again?
How do we make ₦100,000 buy more next year, rather than less?
How do we make food cheaper by producing more?
How do we reduce the cost of energy and transportation?
How do we build an economy where salaries can actually keep up with the cost of living?
Because when I think deeply about it, perhaps one of the greatest things a government can do for its people is not to keep giving them money.
It is to build an economy where the money they earn has value.
There is dignity in being able to take care of yourself from the product of your own labour.
There is dignity in a teacher being able to feed a family from teaching.
There is dignity in a nurse being able to pay rent from nursing.
There is dignity in a young person working an honest job and gradually seeing life improve.
People should be able to look back after five years of hard work and say, “My life has become better.”
Not, “I earn more money today, but somehow I can afford less.”
That is the part that keeps bothering me.
Millions of Nigerians are not asking to become millionaires overnight.
They just want hard work to make sense again.
And maybe that should be one of the simplest ways we measure whether our economy is actually working:
Is the ordinary Nigerian who works hard becoming progressively better off, or progressively poorer?
Everything else is secondary.
@Obumnemetg An interview I did weeks back, the HR asked for my salary expectation. I told her, she told me their budget, and I said it was too small.
She now started explaining that “there’s a budget for the role.”
Ma’am, why did you ask me for my expectation then? Why did you stress me?
I’m just coming from IG and read about Tuface and Nee Idibia. Nee Idibia stormed a club in Abuja with her entourage to track down Tuface, screaming “I am your wife, my husband 2baba is here.”
Omo, we are still keeping up with the Okoyes 😭 Can the Idibias wait till next month?
Build fucking trains. Build industries. Build houses. Solve insecurity. Create opportunities for growth. That's how you build a nation filled with property
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Lmao. My mama younger brother marry woman wey senior am with almost 20 years. 😂. After all the chaos that erupted from trying to stop the marriage. The guy’s mind was made up. All their siblings eventually went to the wedding. The highest thing they can do is not to talk to the woman. They talk to their brother but they barely speak to the wife. If you will disown your brother over his choice of wife, you’re not better than jude then. You people take this family thing too much to mean control, anyone who’s your family must see life from your own lenses and understand things as you do.
I also have an uncle who has refused to marry. He is over 60 years old today. Everyone has talked, arranged woman for him o, promised to sponsor weddings for him. But he just doesn’t want to. He has been threatened to be cut off, nothing dem never tell am. He has been eventually let be. Some of you just don’t understand that your siblings can grow and see life from their own lenses and make independent decisions on their own. It’s this mindset that eventually lead to family long disputes because someone like you has hell bent made decisions that your innocent siblings can’t break. Make una chill abeg.
Igbo people have the oldest history and the oldest continuous kingdom in Nigeria.
One of the earliest domesticators of many of our staples.
Also one of the most complex cuisines and cuisines get more complex over time, not less so.
But this attention seeking olodo thinks Igbo cuisine started circa 1926.
It's the people that give him audience I blame.
@zy_pal@KaiUzama Many men do care about women, but the reality is that some harmful behaviors don't truly register until they imagine those same actions affecting someone they love especially their daughters. That's when their empathy becomes personal and perspectives change.
Your father is right on this, my brother. You are wrong.
Language as a means of transacting with the world, or as a mechanism for global exchange is basically converging on English and Mandarin for everyone in the world, tbh. Even French speakers find that they cannot help the world's inexorable move to English.
Where your children need Igbo is because language primarily functions as a way of transmitting identity, culture and a world view.
If your children don't speak Igbo, they never get to understand their Igbo heritage, they never get to actually participate in their culture, and they will never pass it on.
They'll eventually become just another English or French speaking black person who has no unique connection to a culture that is not commoditized. They will blame you for failing in your responsibility.
you people in the quotes have a problem and you nedd to heal because this is his experience,why are you trying to put it down and compare it to yours??