yes, people make choices. but when the same problems appear across all the sectors, maybe we should stop treating each individual failure as an isolated character defect.
until we fix this shitty system, we will keep having the same conversation about how terrible nigerians are.
"nigerian are the problem."
no. nigeria is in fact the problem.
see, the nigerian system has been structured in a way that constantly produces and normalises the very behaviours we complain about.
you cannot separate nigerians from the environment nigeria has created for them.
when people spend years surviving in an environment defined by scarcity, insecurity, weak institutions and constant competition for basic opportunities, society itself becomes more transactional.
nigeria produces these conditions and nigerians as we do so well adapts to them.
a lecturer extorting students is a problem, but so is an educational system where lecturers can operate with little accountability and students have no protection. weโre living in a country where institutions meant to enforce the law are themselves poorly funded and compromised.
most of you guys quoted this tweet, do you even know what quotation marks are?
heโs literally saying people who make such statements are the stupid fools, not if youโre using iphone 13 in 2026.
omo ehn, go school, you say no.