₦airaland Forum

If this is not wickedness, then what is? In just two years, this government has turned life in Nigeria into a daily horror show. They call it reform. Nigerians call it what it really is: survival of the hungriest.

Let’s count the blows. First, they killed the fuel subsidy, the only cushion the poor had left. Then they hiked public school tuition, shutting out children of the masses from education, yet the education budget has not increased in real terms. In 2023 under Buhari’s government, the education sector got ₦1.08 trillion ($2.35 billion). Under Tinubu, the 2024 budget jumped to ₦1.54 trillion, but thanks to the collapsing naira, that’s barely $1.6 billion. In dollar terms, education funding actually went down ($2.35billion down to $$1.6billion) while tuition went up.

And instead of funding schools properly, what did they give us? Student loans, a trap dressed as opportunity. Why must parents borrow before sending their children to school? Why mortgage the future of our children because of government failure? Today, a civil servant who earns less than N100,000 is being turned into an “irresponsible parent” because he cannot pay his child’s fees without debt. Tomorrow, those same children after struggling through school will graduate into the same minimum-wage reality, only to start paying back loans that never should have existed in the first place.

Nobody is talking about the danger this debt system is planting in the future of our children. An entire generation is being set up to begin life already in chains. What kind of leadership mortgages tomorrow just to cover today’s failure?

But it didn’t stop there. Cooking gas? Up.
Electricity tariffs? Up. Customs duties? Up. Dollar rate? Through the roof. Taxes? Increased on every side. And now, after all this, they still have the audacity to add another fuel tax.

Name one thing this government hasn’t touched with an “increase” button in just two years. I’ll wait. But let me save you the trouble: the only thing they’ve managed to reduce is the value of our wages and the dignity of Nigerians.

Meanwhile, while everything else has been rising, only one thing has been reduced: the salaries of Nigerian workers. From over $100 in real value, earnings have been slashed down to the equivalent of $46. That’s not just a pay cut, that’s an insult to dignity.

And then they expect honesty. They expect people not to cut corners. They expect corruption not to thrive. Even the Bible warns about this:

“Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.” (Proverbs 30:8-9).

This isn’t leadership, it’s wickedness with a smile. Nigerians are not blind. We see the games. We feel the pain. And no amount of propaganda can convince a hungry man that his hunger is “reform.”

The truth is simple: this government has broken the people’s back. If they don’t change course, history will not remember them as reformers. It will remember them as tormentors.

Call it whatever you like, but Nigerians know the truth. This is not reform. This is punishment.


Oya, 30k laptop-and-tablet warriors, dinner is served. Come and do what you’re paid for, defend your oga with empty grammar.

helinues:
Is it the government that are killing people or neighbors fighting and killing themselves?

My friend Helinues, I’m sure you didn’t read this before you commented. Try and read first and come up with your argument.

ibabz:
My friend Helinues, I’m sure you didn’t read this before you commented. Try and read first and come up with your argument.

I read what you wrote..It is as usual blaming and accusing epistle without proffering any solution.

and it doesn't look like presido gives a damn about it, more tax are coming im very sure of that.