If you’re a young Nigerian and you feel like you didn’t make progress this year, please read this slowly.
Progress is not always money.
Progress is not always relocation.
Progress is not always a new car, title, or house.
In Nigeria, staying sane is progress.
Choosing not to be bitter is progress.
Learning a skill while the system frustrates you is progress.
Refusing crime when crime looks like the fastest way out is progress.
Progress is waking up every day in a country that keeps moving the goalpost and still choosing hope.
Some of you:
•Supported your family on a small income
•Paid school fees with stress and dignity
•Didn’t give up when your plans collapsed
•Survived inflation, fear, uncertainty, and silence
That is not failure.
That is resilience under extreme pressure.
The world measures success in years.
Nigeria measures it in endurance.
If you’re still standing, still dreaming, still learning, still trying you are not late. You are being forged.
History does not remember those who had it easy.
It remembers those who survived impossible systems and still built greatness.
One day, the same world ignoring you today will call your story “inspiring.”
Keep going.
@iam_polymath@Thingummy_Fire I think it could be related to herd mentality. The first people that rushed to the site were traders around the park, drivers and passerbys. It was the noise that attracted students from the hostel, those returning from lectures or those just passing by
@iam_polymath It was really a display of religious folly that day. I remember I was at the PG School and the incident happened close to the Anglican Church, close to the old motor park.