What Nigerians Accept as Normal That Other Countries Find Strange

Many Nigerians no longer see how abnormal some realities are. Take paying for goods and feeling lucky when the seller is civil. Or bad roads that we learn to navigate instead of demanding fixes. Power failures now make generators a necessity. Graduates expect unemployment before NYSC. Honesty in a corrupt system seems odd. When dysfunction becomes routine, we stop asking why. In other countries, people complain early. Here we endure, adapt, then raise our voices too late. It might not be just bad leadership. It might be how we’ve adapted to broken systems. What normal should Nigerians stop accepting today?

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