“” – A Nigerian Story on Political Ethics and Living Standards"
In the bustling city of Lagos, where the streets never truly slept and the horns of yellow buses echoed from morning to night, lived a young teacher named Tunde Adeyemi. Tunde loved his country, Nigeria, but every day he wondered whether his country loved him back.
Tunde earned a modest salary teaching civic education at a government secondary school. He believed strongly in political ethics—honesty, accountability, and leadership that served the people. Ironically, these were the same values missing in the political environment around him.
One morning, as he walked through the crowded market in Balogun Market, he stopped at a stall to buy rice.
“Madam, how much is one bag?” he asked.
“₦85,000,” the woman replied.
Tunde’s heart sank. Just two years earlier, the same bag cost almost half the price.
“Why is everything so expensive now?” he asked.
The woman sighed.
“My brother, na corruption. Government people chop money meant for roads, power, farming, everything. We suffer am.”
Her words echoed the reality many Nigerians faced daily. Corruption had slowly...
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