The whole nation's on strike,
And we are completely fine. Thanks for asking. The whole of Nigeria is completely shut down! Every shop, restaurant, everything is closed indefinitely until the strike is over. The problem is that the President decided to take away fuel subsidies. Lemme explain. For a while Nigeria's gas prices have stayed around a steady-ish 65 Naira. The original price of the gas is much higher, so the government pays for most of it so that the people can afford it. But the problem now is that Nigeria's broke like every other country in the world so they can't afford to pay for part of the gas. So now, the gas price has risen to 156 Naira. Riots and everything are running crazy in the streets of Lagos and Ibadan, but not in Ife! We're safe. But it's getting really bad. People are beginning to get violent, and mobs and thieves are coming out and taking advantage of the few people on the street. Shops are getting robbed all over the place, and the police are trying to handle the situation but are pretty much failing. It's getting so bad, that a senator's wife was driving to Abuja with an armed entourage and everything and the rioters and thugs completely ripped apart the car and stopped her from going anywhere. The reason why people are fighting used to be because of the fuel subsidy removal, but now it's become more of a "we're tired of the corruption in the government" sorta thing. The President can't back down with his decision anymore either. The reason is because if he does then nobody will listen to him anymore. Everybody will just say if he tries to pass anything else, "you're too weak! If we just riot again, you'll fold and we'll do whatever we want." So the situations is just bad. We have to stay in the house in the daytime and then go about after 5:00 because the riots and stuff happen between 8:00 and 5:00. They're getting really violent in Lagos and Ibadan. Don't worry, we're fine.
Signing off,
The Traveler
And we are completely fine. Thanks for asking. The whole of Nigeria is completely shut down! Every shop, restaurant, everything is closed indefinitely until the strike is over. The problem is that the President decided to take away fuel subsidies. Lemme explain. For a while Nigeria's gas prices have stayed around a steady-ish 65 Naira. The original price of the gas is much higher, so the government pays for most of it so that the people can afford it. But the problem now is that Nigeria's broke like every other country in the world so they can't afford to pay for part of the gas. So now, the gas price has risen to 156 Naira. Riots and everything are running crazy in the streets of Lagos and Ibadan, but not in Ife! We're safe. But it's getting really bad. People are beginning to get violent, and mobs and thieves are coming out and taking advantage of the few people on the street. Shops are getting robbed all over the place, and the police are trying to handle the situation but are pretty much failing. It's getting so bad, that a senator's wife was driving to Abuja with an armed entourage and everything and the rioters and thugs completely ripped apart the car and stopped her from going anywhere. The reason why people are fighting used to be because of the fuel subsidy removal, but now it's become more of a "we're tired of the corruption in the government" sorta thing. The President can't back down with his decision anymore either. The reason is because if he does then nobody will listen to him anymore. Everybody will just say if he tries to pass anything else, "you're too weak! If we just riot again, you'll fold and we'll do whatever we want." So the situations is just bad. We have to stay in the house in the daytime and then go about after 5:00 because the riots and stuff happen between 8:00 and 5:00. They're getting really violent in Lagos and Ibadan. Don't worry, we're fine.
Signing off,
The Traveler
