Kissing in public, hugging, holding hands, showing cleavage, wearing short clothes in home or outside-"Our culture is getting ruined, yaar."
But damn, our parents' generation had such a beautiful culture, right?
1) Peeing in public.
2) Beating your wife.
3) Creating a scene in front of the entire neighbourhood.
4) Killing a girl before she was even born
5) Marrying off girls who hadn’t even finished school (or started periods).
6) Treating widows like they were already dead — white sari, no bangles, no second chance
7) Pushing widows onto their husband’s funeral pyre (Sati still happening in pockets).
8) Declaring a woman a “dayan” and beating or burning her for “witchcraft.”
9) Taking dowry.
Surely, what a glorious culture that was.
Bitch, you’re Black *and* Nigerian. Your president is a functional vegetable who will likely rule you for another four years. You have insurgents threatening your existence in your own backyard and you can’t do fuck all about it. You wake up every day knowing that one day you may have to pay a ransom praying that your body or that of someone you love is at least recovered in time for a proper funeral. You could be dispossessed of everything you own in one sweep. Your life expectancy is shit and there is no lifeline. You are one arrest away from becoming another forgotten sheep in a broken system, one medical emergency away from becoming a dead fly. Your offspring were already in danger before ever being born.
So wherever women’s rights are being taken away, you are still doomed. Doomed as a Nigerian. Doomed as a Black man. Because wherever you go, your rights are next. You too are standing on rights that were fought for, given legal protection, and can be taken away. And any machinery of oppression that comes for women’s rights will come for yours too. You will have no freedom and no dignity.
You are still under the feet and mercy of the white man, still doomed in every universe. Still a lame horse waiting to be put down. Worry about your fate and we’ll worry about ours.
“No rich man will open their door for poor people, that’s why many countries are denying Nigerian visas. By the time we are done reforming Nigeria, Nigerians won’t like to be travelling outside like now. Even when they apply for a visa, they can easily get it.”
— NDC presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, speaking at a town hall meeting in Rivers State.
@Mechelino3@boye4christ2006 That's the issue, a lot of them see it as being smart. The average Nigerian is always ready to cheat you. A lot needs to change in our system
i hate poverty so much.
It turns you into a people pleaser. You avoid conflict because you can't afford to lose access, help, opportunities.
It makes you overexplain. You feel the need to justify your existence, choices, or mistakes , it shuts you up.
Next August, 2027 at this exact time, you will be standing in the places you used to dream about. Living your most beautiful rich life.
Send this to yourself.
I have consistently continued to respectfully appeal to those in office today to prioritise reconstruction and maintenance of existing roads and other infrastructure over commencing new ones.
I left someone in Onitsha on Saturday night to take the first bus to Lagos on Sunday morning. Until I left Lagos at 8 pm yesterday, he had not arrived in Lagos. He only arrived in Lagos at about 2 pm today. A journey that usually takes a maximum of 8 hours now takes nearly two days.
This is not just about bad roads. It is about lost man-hours, stranded passengers sleeping on highways, wasted fuel, damaged vehicles, delayed goods, and businesses losing millions of naira.
Nigerians do not need new projects just for the headlines. We need functional roads that make life and economic activity possible.
A government must understand that infrastructure is not necessarily about the size of the project; it is about the number of lives and livelihoods it improves.
A new Nigeria is POSSIBLE, and Nigeria will be OK. -PO
stupid ass fucking country run by stupid ass fucking people because of stupid ass fucking people who voted for the stupid ass motherfuckers oh my god get me the fuck OUT OF HERE