Hello ladies and gentlemen of readcash, how are you today? There has been power failure over here for more than 24 hours and we don't seem to know what the problem is, even the university doesn't have light and that's very unusual.
Luckily for me, my powerbank saved my phone from going off 😁 and I gave it to a friend earlier to help me charge it somewhere that has a generator, so at least I am covered for today and will worry about charging tomorrow.
I saw that tweet earlier today on Twitter and I know most of us in Nigeria will know what it is all about; that is the year the current president was elected, and the beginning of our downfall. It's surprising how things have gotten so bad since then and we are just suffering and smiling right now.
That same mistake could have been avoided in 2019, but the same person was voted in again! 😀 I couldn't believe it when he won again despite what the whole country was passing through at that point but I actually saw it coming, we somehow end up electing the wrong person.
Right now, inflation is at its highest ever and a lot of other things have increased as well (and I am not even talking about good things). Earlier today, I was with a friend when she was buying something from a store and she asked for a can of peak milk, and she was told that it's NGN320. I was surprised and I told her that the last time I bought that milk, it was NGN250.
Later in the evening, I went out to buy things I need for tomatoes stew, and I bought 4 eggs for the price of NGN320. I told my girlfriend that I used to buy those eggs three for NGN100 back in 2020, but now only one is NGN80 and I am pretty sure it will soon get to NGN100.
Should we even talk about the price of bread? I can't think of a single thing that has remained the same since 2019, everything has increased in price but sadly, the salaries of most civil servants haven't increased. The worst thing is the price of the dollar to our currency (naira), which keeps increasing every day.
Just imagine someone that was earning NGN50,000 (approximately $140) monthly in 2019 back when a dollar was NGN360 and the person's salary remains the same till now and one dollar is currently NGN415 (according to the federal government 😆), the same NGN50k is now $120, which means the person's salary actually reduced.
Meanwhile, the prices of items in the market are responding to the price of dollar and at the end of the day, we have a lot of families who aren't able to afford food items because of a mistake we made back in 2015 and repeated in 2019. It's baffling that the current president of this country is someone that didn't go to school, even the primary school he went to is still being debated till today.
Back in 2020, there was a nationwide protest by the youths in the country to protest against the brutality of the police and that was the first time I saw youths of my country come together for one great cause, and it was successful (for the most part). There were talks back then that it was time for youths to take control of the country and become the president during the next presidential election which is next year.
A youth political party was even created and a lot of meetings were held back then, but right now I am not even hearing anything about youths going for the presidency anymore and we have a couple of old men popping up everywhere with their election posters and campaign and I can see 2015 happening all over again.
Right now I can't even do much than just observe and lookout for a good enough candidate who I will vote for, at least amongst all the candidates that are coming out, there's certainly going to be a lesser evil. But how are we going to know who is a lesser evil? Most people back in 2015 thought they were picking the lesser evil, but they all turned out wrong. I just hope we don't end up making the same mistake all over again.
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Tuesday March 29, 2022
Too sad that people voted for the worng one, here in our country I'm hoping that people including me because it's also my first time to vote this coming month of may and I wish we can elect better person for the better future of our country, gosh all prices are on the hike yet the wage doesn't increase.