How being born a Nigerian makes you a natural hustler

 Am a hustler baby! I just want you to know, it ain’t where I been, but where am about to go, now I just wanna luv u . . . . yadiyadi ya, u know the rest of the song ☺

So am sitting down thinking of what business I can currently go into with the very limited resources that I currently have at hand; and well…. I am still thinking :/

Anyway, it got me thinking about how almost all Nigerians are businessmen and women, does not even matter if they are actually jobless, we all do business! It’s just that, well some business pass business o! (Insert thick Nigerian accent here). However, who can really blame them between the lack of good jobs and with the low pay that most jobs even offer 1 + 1 does not equal 2, more like -5.  Leaving the majority of the people struggling to make ends meet. I am not even talking of the poor people of our country even our graduates are struggling. Engineers and accountants are pounding the pavement looking for work or are resorting to working as security guards or serving tea in the banks. Unfortunately, not all of them go the legit route. The other option it seems are 419 (fraudulent activity), armed robbery, prostitution of all sorts and people resorting to all this ritual nonsense where they kidnap their fellow Nigerians and sell them or kill them to make money. It is so very disturbing.

Now even though I believe Nigeria is technically a third world country, do you know that Lagos (the previous capital of Nigeria) is one of the most expensive places to live in the world? Yes!, a place where the majority of the population lives on less than $2 a day. We also buy the most champagne in all of Africa. The flashiest cars dey here, plenty plenty. Range rover, Bentley and all the other expensive cars that are out there (forgive my ignorance am not a big car person, I just like my Mercedes). Land and houses for sale and rent at prices only a small percentage of the population can actually afford and loads of designer clothes and accessories at 5 times the actual price if you went out yourself and bought it abroad. It leaves the majority of the people looking up and trying to aspire to live this lifestyle.

If you think about it, it is actually quite sad. Drivers, house helps and nannies constantly stealing from their employers at every slight opportunity. Girls in the workplace, moonlighting on the side so they can wear the best of the best and drive some luxury vehicle. Boys setting up dodgy businesses and the likes and its so rampant its every where. I wonder what is truly the real solution to this problem???
But to my legit hustlers, more power to you, man (and woman) must eat.

Random thoughts of my mind.