Medium Reloaded; How I Woke Up From Death After Five Months
Leaving medium for 5 months is like taking life out of a living soul. There is no justification and reason for happiness. Obviously, there should never be one considering the fact that the sun shade, the air and atmosphere of the Nigerian situation is hardened and scorching.
Well, is there such a thing like a Nigerian situation? I guess there is nothing like American or Indian situation. Yes, Nigerian situation is when families cannot feed, students cannot afford tuition fee which is disguised as school charges for constitutional reasons and not in reality.
In 1973, the then military head of state, Gen. Yakubu Gowon introduced tuition fees in the tertiary institutions but was flatly rejected by the court for violation of the constitution. The Nigerian constitution place the burden of public Education on the government. So, the use of tuition fee in Nigerian public education is against the spirit of the constitution. But a country whose monthly minimum wage is less than 20$ and students and parents are compared to paying 100$ for school charges (as they want it called) cannot claim that its citizens are not paying tuition fee.
Things are very, very hard in Nigeria. The citizens are living in masochism. It is somehow better to say the people are in nirvana of suffering. The inflation rate in the country is as high as 31 percent according to national bureau of statistics while unemployment stands at 45 percent.
In the midst of protests and cries on the streets, the politicians are growing their pockets while the citizens are groaning. No one cares whether you have fed for the day. The food situation in the country is dire and very terrible. A dollar could previously get you a measure of rice but now you are dreaming. It is two dollars for a measure of rice or you are going to bed hungry. The price of rice has gone up 80 percent from what we use to buy. Just recently, the Ukrainian government donated thousands of metric tons of grain to Nigeria.
While we are crying and frying in the country, politicians, government appointees, national assembly members are flying and buying luxurious SUV cars with tax-payer’s money. Just recently, the senate chamber was engulfed with accusations of budget padding and redundant budget been used by the federal government.
Now that I am back on medium, I am hoping that my sanity will be restored because things are crazy here. Hustling for 5$ subscription for monthly medium membership is my new enemy now since medium CEO
has refused to include Nigeria in the paid partner package. As Nigerians would say on the streets, e no dey over men. That is, it cannot be more than me. There must be a way. They should be a way.Surviving in Nigeria now is the ultimate goal and no one cares about a happy life any more. Young men and women have learned not to sleep. Sleeping for 12 hours is like sleeping over the strategies that could have fetched you at least a little fortune for the day.
You see, poverty has made some Nigerians to question the kind of democracy we are practicing. Our current president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who himself is a first class graduate of Chicago state university, a billionaire, and a staunch capitalist campaigned on the mantra of renewed hope for the country but what we are seeing now is renewed hopelessness. Things have gone over the wire. The removal of subsidies on petrol and the floating of the naira have turned things above the reach of the ordinary man.
The betting industry has seen huge inflow of money worth billions of Naira because the youth have seen a glimmer of hope only in spot betting. For some of us, we have been introduced to the world of crypto where we hope that we will lift ourselves out of the trenches. It sounds funny right? Our daily task now is farming and miming of crypto projects for airdrops. What a terrible life.
I was dead, thrown far away from the world but I have woken up from death. I am back on medium. Well, I am back not to bore you with the tales of our sufferings but to enjoy myself with your fascinating articles. Please welcome me back on the medium space. More gist coming. I hope I am welcomed to enjoy the rematch of Big Joe and super Trump.
