Esere🤍

going to live my best life
A.R.M.Y

[hotsexymamayepa💋 @lotoscuffs_]

I hate how the simplest good things are only accessible to very rich people now
Lmaooo I can't save and go to another country because I'm not nepo
Omo I hope the president burns to ashes honestly

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

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.

[Pulse Nigeria @PulseNigeria247]

“Professors are aiding illiterates to rig elections, lawmakers have removed forgery as an offense in electoral matters, and SANs are defending forgery, our religious leaders are now praying for criminal politicians, our judges are singing 'On your mandate we stand'”

- Peter Obi

[Ibeh @masurge7]

The President of the Most populous Black nation on Earth can't prove he attended Primary and Secondary school.

The only Certificate he presented he still begged CSU not to disclose details as it will do him irreparable damages.

You're an enemy of Nigeria if Tinubu's your Choice

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

"You will never find justice in a society where criminals make the laws"

[Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour @GRVlagos]

I find the Deputy Governor’s comments on the waste management crisis in Lagos embarrassing.

After being in government for at least 20 years, how can Mr Hamzat say, “We thought we were generating 13,000 tonnes on a daily basis”?

As Uncle Jimi asked: Who misled you?

The amount of waste Lagos generates should not be a matter of guesswork. Every landfill should have a functioning weighbridge to measure the weight of waste going into the site. With that data, you can easily establish daily and monthly averages and know exactly how much waste Lagos is generating.

It is deeply worrying that Olusosun, the largest dumpsite in Lagos, doesn’t have one. Igando doesn’t have either.

So how exactly are you planning and managing waste without reliable data?

Even if we were generating 13,000 tonnes a day, does Lagos currently have the capacity and infrastructure to evacuate and properly manage it? Do we have enough trucks? Transfer stations? Recycling and processing facilities? Properly managed landfills? A modern waste-to-energy system?

Is the system transparent and accessible enough to boost private sector participation without APC patronage ?

The answer is clearly no.

And that is why Lagos is in the deplorable environmental state we see today.

And please, saying “if you go around Africa, what you see is disorganisation” is not an excuse.

Lagos should not be benchmarking itself against disorganisation. We should be setting the standard for urban management in Africa.

After over two decades in Alausa, Lagos should have the data, the infrastructure and the systems to know exactly how much waste we generate and how to manage it.

And this is not just a problem of insufficient information. It is a problem of poor planning, lack of accountability and a failure of imagination.

What the APC government has lacked the imagination and political will to solve in the last 26 years, they will not solve in another 8 years.

It is time for YOU to experience a better Lagos, a working Lagos, A Lagos that puts YOU first #OURLAGOS

[Marie🧚 @glitchu__]

me at 6am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 8pm, 11pm

[yo 𓃠𓂀 @kafkaseyes]

getting accused of something so out of character will really have you lying in bed for three hours questioning how people actually perceive you

[𝖓𝖆𝖟 ꒰ঌ ໒꒱ @nazzygirlxx]

what doesn’t kill you makes ur eyes well up on public transport

[Idk @Luvidk21_]

when I find out that my family has eaten something delicious while I wasn't home

[4͟7͟ @6ixxLove]

bro i would give anything to experience what i felt the first time watching this entrance as a child man

[Ibeh @masurge7]

When he removed subsidy the whole nation felt it.

Why do we now need Google, analysts and microscope for us to "feel" the benefits 😂?

[liz🧚 @Lizformee]

Let’s normalize making men feel uncomfortable when they say inappropriate things.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

i like niggas that just buy you shit just to see you smile. a lollipop, a purse, a new chapstick, cotton candy, ANYTHING. you know what, hell yeah

[Victoria @wuraa_olaaa]

"your package will be delivered today".

me all day:

[liz🧚 @Lizformee]

My face after hearing the opinion that I didn’t ask for:

[. @Carlosgramosc]

¿Te importa si cancelamos?

Yo:

[⚚ Mr Blur 🫆🍁 𝝅 @real_khanzunlah]

Nothing against you or the estate, but this is something that genuinely bothers me about Nigeria. We have normalized marketing basic human necessities as luxury.

A concrete road shouldn’t be a luxury. Electricity shouldn’t be a luxury. Clean water shouldn’t be a luxury. Proper drainage and access to healthcare shouldn’t be luxury.

These should be the bare minimum standard of a decent community, not the reason someone has to convince you to buy a house there.

[Idk @Luvidk21_]

when i suddenly remember i haven’t seen that one tshirt in a while