World Bank told Nigeria to reopen fuel imports because Dangote’s fuel was 12% more expensive than imports. Dangote called it flawed. World Bank quietly deleted the whole report from their website.
Meanwhile Europe is buying refined fuel from the same Dangote refinery because Middle East supply got disrupted. The same Europe that used to sell Nigeria its own crude back as petrol. You can’t make this up.
An African refinery finally works at scale and the first recommendation is not invest more, not expand capacity. It’s bring back imports.
When Africa consumes nobody says a word. When Africa refines and competes suddenly it’s a problem.
No one wants to hear it but you will have to *work* on everything that is worth having in life.
Your career, your relationships, your health - whatever it is...
So if you don't want to work for it, be prepared to be very disappointed in the quality of everything you get.
Have you ever seen a tweet that doesn't even concern you, but you immediately go to that person's profile and block them because you don’t want to see any more of their thoughts on your timeline ever again?
When they move abroad as immigrants - they make friends based on visa categories. They don't even date below their visa categories. 😂
When they're on Twitter, the reiterate that stratification. small accounts vs big accounts. 💀
I reflect a lot on our ideological design, as a people. Nigerians are morally bankrupt, culturally deficient and rooted in faux elitism.
This is why some markets exist for us, because they can take advantage of that shameless insecurity - and I genuinely don't think the reason is poverty.
I've visited other poor countries. These countries do not see cars beyond what they are, a means a transportation. They don't see restaurants beyond what they are. They don't see dates beyond what they are.
Something fundamentally is wrong with us.
For us, it isn't even enough that we succeed - it is important that other fail, or don't succeed as much as we do. It is important for us to have an edge other others. It is such a sick attitude.
Person A has one house. Person B has two houses. It isn't enough that they both have roof over their heads - Person B innately subclasses Person A.
You should also to hear from a Nigerian gym goer that you're not "man enough" because you don't bench as much as he does. 💀
As segwayed as these analogies are, they are rooted in the same proportionality. It points to the same mental illness.
Who did this to us?
Not to sound delusional, but please pray for grace. Life isn't really about hard work. It's more about meeting the right people, grace, mercy, and favour.
I read a quote that said
"The faster that you do the hard things you want to avoid, the faster you will receive the good things you actually want"
and that has changed my whole perspective.
Last night I decided to buy every single item on this receipt from 2020. To find out how bad things really are .
Total price in 2020 - N25,225
Total price in 2026 - N147,050
A whopping 582% increase in price . If your salary in 2020 has not increased by x6 you are poorer 😭
You spend six years in uni due to Asuu strike.
Add an extra year for NYSC to serve a government that doesn't care.
Then spend another two years job hunting.
That’s almost a decade gone.
Now you finally get a job and they still say you don’t have enough experience.
The pay is average at best.
Four years after uni, you’re nowhere near #300k a month.
Yet you’re heavily taxed. Everything is expensive.
Buying a car feels like a 20-year savings plan.
And they want you to get married early
Exploring the world feels unrealistic.
Total chaos
Teachers are scarce 🤣🤣🤣
Applied to 12 schools in 2024.
7 reached out immediately and I picked my current work place.
Two remembered me last week.
Another two this week.
I love it🤌🤌.. brain drain in the teaching profession will hit hard and it's because of low pay.