My former barber has been cutting hair for not less than 15 years. He can’t even boast of a two-bedroom apartment. He waited a long while before finally deciding to settle down, only for his first childbearing experience to be twins.
He called to tell me, and I felt enraged.
This man isn’t lazy. He’s very good and efficient at what he does. Fifteen years of working, and he still can’t afford a comfortable roof over his head. We haven’t even started talking about owning a car.
Nigeria is raw. It will chew you up and spit you out, no matter how hard you work or how good you are at what you do.
At some point, we have to stop romanticising resilience in a country that makes survival unnecessarily difficult.
Nothing will change until we decide we’ve had enough.
Abroad isn’t easy but one thing is sure, your HARD WORK pays, unlike this useless country