A Nigerian professor of Law, Joy Ezeilo, has cried out over Nigeria’s precarious economic situation.
She said the inflationary rate is killing and driving Nigerians crazy.
The professor, who teaches Law at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, (Enugu campus), took to her twitter handle to lament the cost of fuel while comparing that with how much she earns monthly.
“Which way is Nigeria headed?” she asked explaining that she “bought 50 litres of diesel for my car at the cost of N40, 000 in Enugu.”
The Law lecturer said, “I’m wondering how we will all survive this hardship. As a Law Professor that has reached the last step and stage in promotion at a Federal University, I’m paid about 400k per
Month after taxes so if I spend forty thousand conservatively for fuelling my car on a weekly basis that’s if I remain within my city times that by at least 200 litres per Month it means 40 percent of my salary in fuelling. What about other utilities, electricity, water, rent, food, children’s school fees, medical, phone and internet etc. Cooking gas is up by over 200 percent? Do we resort to firewood? World Bank’s prediction that millions of Nigerians would be driven to the poverty level is real . We’re in troubled waters with crippling inflation!”
Her lamentations bring to the fore again the worsening economic condition of the country with the citizens getting poorer.
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