Economy: You all are dead.

Recently, things have been so hard for my countrymen, the economic state we find ourselves in has been hell for many people that earn little, even people that earn more have been finding it hard to substance their daily expenses as they continue to cut down their expenditure just to meet other primary needs.

Apart from other things that have been trying to kill us, like stress, sickness, kidnappers, serial killer, and many more, the country's economy is out there, hiding in everything we do try to kill us. An average human in my country that earns $100 a month might need an additional job to sustain his or her needs. The value of that money might look small in some countries, but in my country, that is about is over 50,000 in naira, and it is not even enough to cater to one need.

A man who earns $100 with a wife and one kid would find it so hard to survive in this current economy, the fee to send his kid to school is already taking half of his monthly salary, not to mention the basic needs like food, shelter, clothing and so on, he will be frustrated every time and hardly will you see him smile, especially when he is the sole provider of the family. In this current economy, if the husband is the only provider of the family, I'm sorry to say that the family will suffer.

Recently, fuel has been scarce in the country and this has caused hyperinflation on all goods and services. Talking from a student perspective, a student who is in school that has to provide everything for themselves out of the allowance gotten from their parent, some students receive 5,000naira which is not more than $9 per month, with the inflation in food, clothes, transport and many other things that money can buy, how do you expect sure student to survive.

That's why I'm not surprised anymore when I see young kids and youth venture into all kinds of shady things just to get money and improve their livelihood, I'm not saying doing a shady job and evil things to get money is the way out, but the economy has pushed them to this, the economy has failed us. Many of these youth are naive and ignorant of the right way to make money, with readcash many people in my country are doing well, there are other means to earn a good living, then at that, the government Ban Cryptocurrency, it's like all the policymaking is just to frustrate the citizen.

But one thing I know my country people for, we are strong, we don't give up, we don't back down when one problem shows up, we are quick to find a solution to it when one way is blocked, another way is open, there are so many smart people among us, but most of them have decided to use their smartness the wrong way.

In conclusion.

Presently in the country, people are suffering a lot to get their daily food. Those who are working and those who do not, have little difference, and all these have little concern to our so-called leaders 👌, what many of them care about is how to add and get more money to the one they already have.

Our dear parents who used their life serving the government are not paid their entitlement and then, some of our leaders refused to retire from office for the young ones because they know they will surely lose everything when they are not there anymore, they prefer staying there till their last breath.

Graduates are not getting employment and some who are getting are not well paid according to their certificate.

Our economic situation has pushed so many people into what they don't plan for, they do this just to survive hunger. People now go the extra mile to get their basic needs, many people cant come out bold to tell the kind of work they engaged themselves in all in the name of 'I want to survive' and everything still bounces back on the situation of our *Economy*.

If the economy continues like this for 3-5 years, we all be dead because the generation behind us will do even worse than what so many youths are into right👌.

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Article type: Economy
Date: 23/02/2022
Author: FashTioluwa