Punocracy

… where sa-tyres never go flat

From Our Allies

Naira’s journey through birthday wish lists and lace wigs

The indomie generation can no longer afford indomie. The millennials reminisce about when the naira used to be ₦130 against the dollar in 2004. A UK-used iPhone XR is ₦310k, ₦140k more than its price in 2021. Nigerian Twitter is cheering the Naira on to fight back as if this is another AFCON match against Cameroon, and economic analysts are backtracking from their favourable predictions of the Mayday policy.

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From Our Allies

Letters to Nigeria and planning a party through rough times

Even Amaka is married now. She got married during that eight-month-long strike, a new record for ASUU if you ask me, and she is already an expecting mother. She sent me an invite, but I was too busy trying to work my way to Yankee. Believe it or not, even I caught the japa syndrome. Almost all of our friends have fled for ‘greener pastures’ in another man’s land. It’s funny really.

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