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●█● getting a job had by 1989 ( .. just 10 years after 1979 .. ) become a difficult thing to achieve for university and polytechnic graduates
and
in particular, getting a good, well paying job with a good career plan structure and good corporate fringe benefits had become like the proverbial camel passing through the eye of a needle.
the administration had in fact also come out to say that new, fresh graduates should employ themselves i.e create employment for themselves.
the scenario was worsened by a troubled economy which was seeing :
⓿ retrenchments i.e lay-offs of staff in the public and private sectors of the economy
⓿ a shock shake-up of the concept of job security in working in the public sector as government staff were being laid off at 55 years or upon having worked for 35 years .. depending on which came earlier .. instead of leaving them to reach the prior benchmark retirement age of 65 years.
⓿ a further severe additional shock to the concept of job security in working for the public sector as many workers who were retired were either not getting their pensions, gratuities and other emoluments paid at all or being paid after very long intervals of several months.
for the first time in Nigeria, retirees and pensioners began
not only to faint and collapse on queues while waiting in line to receive their cheques
but also to actually die on while on queues waiting in the line to receive their cheques.
( some of these instances were actually reported in news papers and other news media at the time and it may be possible to see linked information via google. )
⓿ closures of many companies, factories, manufacturing concerns as a result of these once vibrant business enterprises failing in the new austere, vitriolic, business-destroying? new Nigeria economic environment
some factories infact re-located from Nigeria to other countries e.g Michelin ? Pfizer ? Unilever ?
⓿ a never before seen extremely very high level of un-employment of all categories of workers including skilled persons, semi-skilled persons and un-skilled persons.
●█● going abroad was no longer a temporary thing as many persons struggled to get out of Nigeria by any means possible leading to the so-called brain drain and skills drain and manpower drain.
whereas before Nigeria residents used to go abroad either for holidays or a visit or to study or for training, now it became the thing to do to get out of Nigeria by all means and to get the citizenship of the country one has gone to and to fully re-locate to that country.
●█● with the people reeling from the impact of the devaluation of the Nigeria (in 1989? .. on-going? since 1989? ) and the attendant caustic impact from a troubled economy, Nigeria residents began to turn to all sorts of ventures and activities in order to survive.
it was in this period that Nigeria began to witness the never-before-seen phenomenon of Nigeria females going abroad to work as commercial sex-workers / prostitutes.
FAST TRACK i.e FAST FORWARD to 2010 .. 2015 .. 2017 .. 2020 and today 2021
( i.e to 1979 + 31 years .. 36 years .. 39 years .. 41 years .. 42 years )
and clearly Nigeria of 2000 – 2021 period is very clearly a different place from Nigeria of 1970 – 1979.
●██● for one thing Nigeria now has
MALE PORN-ACTORS and FEMALE PORN-ACTRESSES
RESIDENT WITHIN NIGERIA
and just like their USA counterparts, UK counterparts, etc ,
these PORN ACTORS and PORN ACTRESSES actually do not hide the work they do from the public eye and in fact run pages at instagram, twitter, facebook and other social media where anyone who goes to those pages can easily grasp the work that they do.
and according to some reports, it seems some of these PORN-ACTORS and PORN-ACTRESSES are making it big financially.
●██● for another thing Nigeria now has STRIP CLUBS in many cities across Nigeria and some of these STRIP CLUBS actually invite and pay STRIPPERS from outside Nigeria to come and perform here in Nigeria.
e.g
● LETHAL LIPPS ( USA ),
● MS. DAMN ( a leading USA stripper rumoured to be of Nigeria ancestry ),
● CHEROKEE D ASS ( USA PORN STAR ACTRESS and STRIPPER )
● VICTORIA CAKES ( USA PORN STAR ACTRESS and STRIPPER )
● ETC, ETC
according to some rumours, it seems some of the Nigeria STRIPPERS are making it big financially.
●██● as for prostitution within Nigeria,
● with Nigeria females being captured en-route Europe via the Sahara Desert in Northern Africa Arab Countries like Libya and being turned into forced prostitution and forced sex slavery there
and
● with Nigeria females either going intentionally to or being trafficked to the Arab World, Asia, Europe, the Americas, etc for prostitution / commercial sex work purposes
prostitution in Nigeria is no longer seen as a big problem they way it was seen in the 1970s
and
averments by persons that the Nigeria government should embark upon a welfare programme for the rehabilitation of prostitutes into persons trained by government and earning income from employment in the Nigeria federal service and state civil services are extremely very rare to come by these days.
what it boils down to is that people need to eat .. and they need to survive.
in a situation where skilled career persons e.g professors, bankers, etc are un-able to provide for themselves and their families and any other dependants
either because
● they have not being paid their salaries for several months
or because
● the organization let them go un-ceremoniously
the person that is socially acceptable and has social respectability accorded to him/her is the person that can foot the bill.
if your 70 year old father is ill and the hospital says it needs NAIRA 5.6 MILLION to do the surgery and whatever else is necessary to save his life and
your brother who is a PH.D in Nuclear Engineering and a Professor at the University can not pay that bill
and
your other brother who dropped his B.A, M.A degrees and became a MALE STRIPPER and a MALE PORN STAR ACTOR deposits the FULL AMOUNT AT ONE GO at the hospital
are you going to
not accept him socially because he is now a STRIPPER and PORN ACTOR ?
or
not confer respect to him in social gatherings because he is now a STRIPPER and PORN ACTOR ?
especially if that your STRIPPER, PORN ACTOR brother is the one footing all the bills of the family and seeing to it, for example, that the school fees of the Professor of NUCLEAR ENGINEERING’s children are paid regularly, on time and that nobody in your family lacks anything ??
