MUSINGS: NIGERIA

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Over the week, I’ve decided that it would be nice to add my thoughts and musings to this blog hence, I’m here with one today. What am I thinking of today? You may wonder. Nigeria. I read a book a while back and I couldn’t help but feel some sort of sadness and it wasn’t because the book was uninteresting—here is my review of the book BTW. My sadness was majorly because of the huge difference between Nigeria then and Nigeria now. It was saddening to see how much more value the Naira had then even though the author noted that prices were on the increase. Consider these:
# A bag of cement costing 6naira.
# A storey building being rented at 9000naira/year.
# A bottle of whisky costing between 4 naira 50 kobo and 6naira. And I must say that the list is beyond these.
  This book got me wondering where it all went wrong, when we started heading for the deep and why it seemed like nobody cared to salvage the situation. My mom would at times mention being given HALF A KOBO as feeding money per day and yet all of it wouldn’t be spent. She also speaks about the days when a Naira was equivalent to $20—just imagine—comments like this get me downcast when I compare them to my time aka the present. Not to talk of the times when light was not all that good but it was good to the extent that it was only companies that had plants (what we call generators). The days when almost everyone went to public school with just few exceptions because public schools were obviously taken seriously as opposed to how it might seem now.
  Sometimes, I find myself wishing I experienced those years or the years I live are better but sadly it’s not. I then wonder what tales I would have to tell my offspring, would it be tales of how things were much worse in my years growing up or the opposite? Would they be left wishing they lived in my years or glad they didn’t? There you have it.

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