After going home last year to visit, im convinced that Naija needs to be 3 different countries...I actually visited the University of Ibadan and it was terrible. Power went out multiple times, web administrators begging for money so that I can have access to WIFI, food subpar smh...And dont get me started on the airport in Lagos..This is supposed to be an international airport hub and its worse than your local regional airport in the states..I am ready for each major tribe to be its own country outright, its the only way forward as I see it.
That airport is a joke. Leaky ceilings and it was my first time in three years back to Lagos and this airport always seems like it is under permanent construction or renovation (reminds of the DC metro system LOL). It's never a finished product. even if you were to give it 10 years.
On aside note, I went to a suya place. I got a Sharwarma and fries for what I thought was 1500 Naira. For some odd reason the guy making it didn't want me to pay it to the cashier, I found it odd. I thought dude was going to give me some type of discount or hook me up. He tells the cashier that I ordered just the sharwama for 1000 Naira. I thought he was looking out but this guy wanted to collect the extra 500 Naira on my way out of the place. This basically sums up Nigeria and even "corruption" on the low level. I basically wouldn't let anybody do a favor for me at any time because I always expected people to expect me to pay money. The things we take for granted in the US for just someone looking out for you in daily life (hailing a cab for you or telling you you dropped something on the metro, giving you directions to a new place when you seem lost) all of these things people expect you to hand over a little something for that. Culture of poverty and corruption meshed in one has contributed to it.
The thieving men and women at the top do not get shamed and so society normalizes and even rewards corruption that's why the women LOVE money because they see men who haven't earned it instead have stolen it spend it recklessly and see it as the norm. The extreme deference that people have for you when they think you have money is scary (People kept calling me "chairman" uncomfortable as hell). I was talking to a young guy who was telling me that women won't even talk to you if you tell them you live on the mainland LOL.
Couldn't even use my company/business card because commercial places don't take international credit cards if there is no PIN associated with it. I had to basically run to the ATM use my personal debit card and guesstimate how much money I would need for the week and avoid rack up international withdrawal ATM fees from UBA, Access & Ecobank And that's if they had any money in these ATM machines to be withdrawn and they say Lagos is supposed to be a regional commercial hub when you can't even use credit cards issued from non-Nigerian banks.