I do not watch the news because it's filled with lies... Like you just sit there, behind the TV and watch adults lie to you.
I also find watching the news to be a waste of my time, I do not know about other people but information just comes to me. Other times, I have my friends calling me to tell me about the news and seek my opinions too.
Sometimes, when I stroll on the street of social media, I bump into news headlines or I see someone post about something disturbing they hear on the news. If I find it interesting and need to know more, I’d just Google and the news will pop up from any of the main stream media site.
Again, if I don't see such news on mainstream media, I take it as fake news.
The thing with politicians is that, there is never a moment of truth with them and they control the media. The other day, my friend and I was discussing about the economic situation of things in my country then he went Nigeria is broke.
I told him that’s false, Nigeria is not broke, it’s a false narrative by mischievous politicians to pacify our spirit while they loot us dry. If you have trhe mind set that the country is broke, it will create doubts in your mind when you hear of their embezzlement of funds.
He kept arguing and I told him, trust me, if the country was broke our politicians will not have anywhere to loot aggressively from.
The only time the news is accurate is when those in power wants to punish and publicly humiliate their political nemesis but once it concerns them, the truth will be so diluted up to the point that even a lie will seem more honest and truth.
I have studied the Nigeria situation so much that I am able to articulate and decipher the economic performance of any government policy or action from the moment it is implemented.
I remember when Former President Buhari was campaigning to be President and his party sold him as a saint to us. This is the same man that ruled in the 80s and people were dying of hunger and starvation.
The All progressive Congress he was coming under for the second time, had the theme change as his manifesto and everyone was happy. Finally, a breath of fresh air they thought.
I smiled and told some of my friends supporting the agenda that change could be negative too.
When I listened to Buhari’s campaign promises of stabilizing the Naira and equating it to the dollar, plus the promise of taking petrol price back to sixty five Naira it was being sold before the removal of subsidy, I knew the change was dead on arrival.
The thing with politicians is that they are all talks and no action. More so, the thing with the masses is that they are gullible and easily deceived because for starters, if you are promising to do something for me, you must tell me how you hope to achieve it but these politicians never do. It’s all noise and no plan.
Buhari ruled with his lies and Tinubu took over as President. Seeing how much Tinubu invested into becoming President, I knew we all will pay the price and he will squeeze out every penny from our commonwealth to reclaim all that was spent.
In the same vein, the labor union was fighting for minimum wage increment and I wrote a post in response to a prompt on minimum wage in my country.
I wrote about how minimum wage increment is not the solution rather, government should increase spending and invest in capital project and industrialize.
Somehow, most people felt increasing the minimum wage was the way out of the biting effect of inflation, as that was the message the Labour union of my country was passing in the news.
Not long after the minimum wage was doubled with some additional money raising it from Thirty thousand Naira to Seventy thousand Naira, price of petroleum was doubled too as predicted by me.
To even think that the increment is yet to be effected, but most workers are already exhausting over 80% of their salary on transportation.
Thus, the income inequality gap continues to widen. Personally, I will rather not judge politicians by what I hear on the news, but by their actions and past records. This is because leaders in my country are often recycled but unfortunately, we do not learn from history.
We study history to repeat history.
