Thread of things Nigerians have normalized
1. A very sick president
2. 6 week pay cycles
3. Massive job losses
4. Lack of new infrastructure
5. Politicians traveling out for Healthcare
6.poor Healthcare services at home
7.poor power
8.getting your own back up generator
9. No water
10. Getting your own water supply
11. Lack of security
12. Poor/corrupt police force
13. The army doing community police work
14. Poor education
15. Affirmative action to access non competitive educative spaces
16. Poor funding for the above 14+15
17. Overpaid representatives
18. Overlooking the lack of valid contributions by said reps
19. Poor legal system
20. Slow legal system
21. Shoddy criminal investigations
22. Reliance on foreign legal systems to convict our criminals
23. States funding religious pilgrimages
24. States unable to pay wages fund health or education.. But pilgrimagesđź’Ż
25. Politicians changing parties
26. Politicians making self contradictory statements after 25.
27. Unexplained wealth in politics
28. How every politician was a good business man before politics
29. Unexplained wealth in religion
30. How politics and religion go so well
31. How wealth in religion needs no explanation
32. Police not being your friend
33. Police taking bribes
34. Cops coming late to the scene
35. People dying in detention
36. Police messing up the crime scene
37. Waiting for the fire service
38. Still waiting for the fire service
39. Fire service finally arrive but no water
40. Lack of insurance
41. Delays before insurance payout
42. No insurance payout
43. Unpaid Pension
44. Pension scams
45. Pensions paying for school fees
46. Adults in their 20s living with pensioned parents
47. Adults in their 30s living off their pensioned parents
48. Gas flaring
49. Massive Air Pollution in the niger delta
50. Massive water pollution in the niger delta
51. Dumping of industrial grade waste in the niger delta
52. IOCs getting away with environmental crimes in the niger delta
53. Poverty and short life spans in the niger delta
54. The death of Ken saro wiwa!!!!
55. The almost arbitrary allocation of oil blocs
56.lack clarity over local taxes
57. Convoluted tax code
58. Opacity wrt tax fund usage
59. Disrespect from elected government officials
60. Worship of elected government officials
61. Reelection of non-performing officials
62 overpowered wife of the president
63 misappropriation of funds for the non existent office of the first lady
64 misappropriation of funds for paid religious riff raff in elective office
65 a delayed budget
66 a fancy name for the budget
67. Copy and paste and not so subtle budget inclusions
68. Budget skewed to recurrent expenditure
69. Senate budget always a mystery
70 bad roads
71 road safety standing by bad roads checking for fire extinguishers
72road safety taking bribes
73 most government officials can be bribed
74. Ghana must go displayed in the senate chambers
75 fisticuffs in the senate chambers
76. Smuggling at the borders
77.delays at the ports
78. Special mention to apapa traffic
79 a gazillion forms to import an item
80 import bans
81 inefficient subsidies
82 government backed monopolies
83 lack of competitive trade
84 calls to support poor quality goods despite better competitors
85 poor customer service
86 disrespectful customer service
87 lip service to agriculture and agro-allied sectors
88 huge interest rates
89 non performing loans
90 massive bank profits
91 special mention to non competitive bans and govt subsidies.. Again.. Oga we see you
92 ethic militia
93 obvious socioeconomic imbalances leading to 92 above
94 ham handed attempts to smother 92 ignoring 93
95 fancy political catchphrases
96 fancy political 3 letter initials
97 fancy political caps
98 poor quality political debates or lack of..
99.absolute disregard for the rights of every single Nigerian

100 absolute disregard for the future of every Nigerian unborn

E. N. D
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