Who be dat craze man wey talk say Nigeria na shithole?!

Nigeria is not a shithole–
It’s just a thing of pride for us that 89 million out of 198 million of us are living in abject poverty and the number keep increasing by day.

Nigeria is not a shithole–
It’s just that we value the lives of cow more than that of human beings.

Nigeria is not a shithole–
It’s just that we prefer to live in perpetual darkness.

Nigeria is not a shithole–
Workers just love to be paid in arrears of 10 months at intervals.

Nigeria is not a shithole–
We just love God so much that we have more places of worship than factories.

Nigeria is not a shithole–
It’s just a choice that all our basic amenities are grounded.

Nigeria is not a shithole–
We just love to be brutalised daily by our police and other para military organisations.

Nigeria is not a shithole—
It’s just that we don’t fancy a functional healthcare system, and prefer to get treated abroad.

How can we be a shithole with all our skyscrapers and mansions, even though there are no drainage and waste disposal systems?

How can we be a shithole with the amount of exotic cars we ship in daily, even though the roads we drive them on are death traps?

How can we be a shithole with our vast natural resources, even though we don’t have people with the intellectual capabilities to harness them?

How can we be a shithole with the ingenious ways our unemployed youths have created jobs for themselves as scammers and hoes?

Nigeria is not a shithole
It’s just that everybody is fed up and desperate to relocate somewhere else.

Ayelala kee the person wey talk say we be shithole!