Some still have money, there are still Billionaires but majority of Nigerians are getting poorer.
34yrs old Dolapo Bolade surprised many of his friends and family
members recently when his wife, Adebisi, was delivered of their first
baby. A highly sociable young man who regularly attended parties and
kept a network of revellers as buddies, there were expectations of a big
gig from almost every quarter immediately the business man’s daughter,
Ifeoluwa, arrived.
Men, women, young and old – all who knew him had their eyes fixed on
August 31, 2016. But when the day finally arrived, Bolade shocked
everyone…“Immediately people heard that my wife had been delivered of a baby, a
lot of them started calling me, asking how big the naming ceremony was
going to be, whether there would be aso ebi and which musician I was
hiring to perform at the event.
“There was too much expectation but inside of me, I just laughed
because a lot of these people don’t seem to understand what I am passing
through at the moment,” Bolade said during a friendly chat with a Punch
reporter earlier in the week. “On the eve of the naming ceremony, some friends called and even came
to my house to find out how I was preparing for the next day,” he
continued. “But they were all surprised when I revealed that there was
not going to be any elaborate ceremony. What we simply did on that
Tuesday morning was to give the baby a name, no ceremony whatsoever
followed,” he added. This is the reality in many homes today, with the poor state of the
economy. If you want to do a party, the things you could buy with 50k
before, now even with N110k you will struggle to meet up. Those into catering and events planning are already complaining of low patronage.
#LetsKeepHoping
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