The Nigerian Naira is shit and it is treated as such
I have been hating on my country, Nigeria and I can't help it, my dislike for the country keeps increasing.
Today 04 November, 2023 makes it 18 days of me being in Nigeria and I have never felt like getting into a country and get the hell out the next minute.
Now this is the country I was born and grew up until I was 27.
The Naira
It has been nothing but a pain to watch the Nigerian Naira depreciate to what it has become today.
At the moment 1$ is equavalent to N807 the figure might be worse off elsewhere depending on the site used and market condition, earlier this week I saw $1 trading for N993 from headline news source.
Basically, the Naira has become nothing but a piece of shit, a toilet paper is even cleaner.
The Naira has always been handled in a filthy way but it seems to have gone worse.
The expression on my face is like someone who just step barefooted into a shit in darkness when I am given these filthy Naira notes.
The whole act has been normalize, resfusing to accept sqeezed notes will get me nowhere.
My wallet has suffered, I am going to get rid of it one of these days. I put some Naira away in my laptop bag, after few days my laptop bags stinks of the Naira notes.
It takes an effort to straighten out the notes and nicely place them in my wallet.
I tried to normalize and squeez the notes into my pocket but failed.
I have never experienced a country's currency treated as such.
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It sounds quite weird. Is everything done in cash and do people reject paying things digitally?
They accept digital transactions from what I've seen but the handling of the paper money is terrible, I can't stand shoving dirty and stinking notes into my wallet.
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Great write up bro, sorry for the stinky nairas; at the end of the day all fiat is just rubbish. The USD might be the cleaner rubbish but still rubbish. Not backed by anything and with relentless printing we all know the fate of fiat in the long run. The fall of the USD has began with the expansion of BRICS countries. As everything goes digital, I foresee bitcoin and crypto taking hold and growing exponentially.
Thank you for sharing and keep enjoying the weekend :}
True when we look at it from a broader perspective of fiat currencies. As for the USD and BRICS, we shall see how things pan out as more countries join BRICS.
I look forward to a digital transaction world dominated by cryptocurrency and my wish is that Africa should be ahead of this transformation.
The stinky Nairas get to me.
A blissful Sunday to you bro.
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I hope every time you touch those notes you hand sanitize with alcolhol-based product. I know our filthy notes I have got exceptionally sick just handling them, keep that in mind.
Africa won't be rid of fiat anytime soon, people are not ready yet, in meantime best alcohol spray, leave them in the sun on a window ledge to sun-bake killing germs.
Money is dirty no matter where in the world you are, touching elevators in public malls are all filthy only good thing from pandemic was selling products in sizeable containers to put in your pocket.
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Unfortunately, I don't have a sanitiser, no doubt it will be best to go around with a sanitiser for each time I touch the Naira, the notes are too filthy.
I never complain about the ones from SA or Benin, these ones are worse.
Positives from the pandemic are sanitisers which most of us have stopped using and social distancing...
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A habit I still do is distancing and hand sanitizer after going anywhere or simply wash your hands with soap all the way up to your elbows.... 🤣
🤣🤣 I would develop washing my hands all the way to my elbows if I was going to stay in Nigeria permanently but I know I will be miserable all day.
What I do though is after washing my hands or taking a shower, I don't go anywhere near touching my wallet again let alone touching the notes.
Hopefully soon a thing of the past where you won't have to live like this.
Yes, looking forward to a better standard of living ahead.
Have a wonderful week.
Banker should take notice of the situation and find a way to take out damage or old fiat Naira.
It is sad that some poeple are recuited to complete these tasks but nothing is done in reality.
Peace
The banks appear to have forgotten their duties, instead, they are busy with ways to take more from customers banking with them.
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