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@AgbogaVictor@grok which of this scholarship suits someone who did forestry and wood technology at undergraduate level and wants to apply for masters degree?
Nigeria, man. There's no escaping the rot, insecurity and dysfunction, no matter how rich you get.
1. Buy an SUV because the roads are bad, and you become a prime target for kidnapping, extortion, and inflated prices
2. Live in an estate for quiet and security but the moment you drive out the gate, you're back in the same poverty, crime, chaos and insecurity everyone else suffers. Your safety exists only within the walls of your expensive prison
3. Spend millions on solar so you don't have to suffer generator noise but your neighbours still use generators. You stop hearing yours, not theirs.
4. Make money and the women will come but the women who come are poor. You work hard to escape poverty, only to give your money to women who are hoping to escape their own poverty by 'working' you
5. Buy Starlink to escape MTN and Airtel, and now the whole compound wants your password.
"But it's unlimited now?"
Decline and you're a bad neighbour
The tragedy of trying to buy your way out systemic dysfunction is that you never truly solve the underlying problem. You just spend money trying to insulate yourself from it, and in that process, create new problems for yourself.
But you interprete it as progress because you no longer have the exact same probems as the next Nigerian.
Because progress here is less about better roads, reliable power and security for all.
Progress here is more about owning an SUV while everyone else dodges potholes in their Camry, having steady power and uninterrupted airconditioning whilst everyone else sweats through the heat, and living behind the 'security' of estate gates while everyone else lives with insecurity.
It is that contrast that gives me fulfilment. It is what makes you stand out, and provides both of us something to brag about. So the benchmark is not whether the system works; It is whether I am better than others in a system that does not work.
And I say "I", because I, also find myself thinking that way sometimes.
I also want to brag about paying 8 million for rent, rather than demand afforable housing for all or protest against the fraud of agents and the greed of landlords.
Afterall, I am also a product of the system.
As a result, most of what I, and by extension, Nigerians broadly speaking, consider progress, is a maladaptation to systemic failure.
It is, to condense it, progress measured against dysfunction, rather than freedom from it.
And 'Maladaptation' because the actions we have adapted to help us cope with the dysfunction, ultimately does more harm than good.
So for example, rather than protest insecurity, bad roads or unreliable power, we maladapt by travelling by air, buying SUVs and installing solar.
We spend money to work around failing institutions while the institutions themselves continue to decay.
But the problem with our "I better pass my neighbour' cope is that it will eventually reach its limit. Because as the rot and decay deepens and spreads, even our workarounds will fail, our estates will no longer keep the criminals and the abokis that surround us out (Abuja residents beware), the kidnappers will come to our doorsteps, like they're doing in Ekpoma, and our roads will get so bad even our four-wheelers will no longer be able to handle them, leading to accidents that will land us in hospitals with no doctors and nurses because our best health workers have japa'd.
Checkmate
Permit me to annoy you.
Are you aware that 99% of young people living in Nigeria are working much harder than they did eight years ago just to buy food and pay their landlords? Even you reading this is among the victims!
The Nigerian government has done something impressive.
They have convinced millions of people that struggling to eat, struggling to pay rent and struggling to survive is a personal failure instead of an economic one.
That's genius.
If I was an American, I repeat for the umpteenth time, just like Elon Musk, I would be a white Supremacist. To me, racism is justified. As an American, I would see myself superior to someone from a country where students were kidnapped, teachers beheaded and an
Many of you want great relationships but all you want to do is take.
There’s nothing great that comes out of always taking. Even friendships but you want life long partners while being a leach.
If you like stay online and let people deceive you that you are some sort of prize that no one can get tired of.
I’ve always had this stance. Working is not my problem as far as I get value for my work and I live the lifestyle i want.
Sadly, Nigeria does not pay for value
That thread of married men sharing their marriage experiences. 🥴
80% of the replies are about financial struggles, & theyre blaming their wives for "bringing bad luck" instead of seeing that Nigeria's economy is the primary reason.
One person even said his wife is a corper. You people clearly don’t knw the value of a two-income household.
You'll intentionally target young girls with no jobs while you're earning peanuts yourself, then turn around & complain about financial hardship after marriage.
You want a patriarchal lifestyle on a ₦150,000 salary? Better marry your agemate & build together by pooling resources.
You ppl should keep lying to yourself that religious leaders do not control their members.
A whole generation of Deeperlifers didn't watch TV for years because their G.O said so.
Witnesses are dying every other day because their doctrine do not allow blood transfusion. LOL
The people employed as good citizens earn salaries that cannot even sustain them for 10 days after feeding, rent, transport and children’s school fees are removed, yet you expect honest civil servants everywhere.
A constituency has a senator, House of Reps member, chairman and a chancellor, yet no good roads, no clean water, no stable electricity in that area and nothing to show for all the allowances and project funds collected every month. Why does a poor country have so many elected positions? To do what? There are governors, commissioners and countless political offices everywhere, yet there are zero basic amenities to make anyone a good citizen while you listen to one politician stealing billions.
Every 3 and half years another shambolic election with billions thrown everywhere, showing same set of failed people, then you have no choice than to choose who failed less when we clearly know they are failure but because of tribe, religion and the token you have been paid you start fighting on X and want others to also defend your bullshit and then suddenly everybody wants a safe society? lol, This system of government needs a reboot and a complete overhaul because this one is not working.
Even when I don’t have strength to make anti Tinubu tweets I RT everyone I see.
Amplifying the cancer that this Tinubu led government is, is essential to our survival as a people.