Nigeria is changing, but will you agree with me if I say it is changing in the wrong places?
We have got "musicians" trying their possible best to get signed to a foreign record label, tripping over each other, beefing, breaking up and coming together just to get famous and further enrich their pocket. Getting featured on intentional TV channels like BET, MTV...
On air, TV personalities clawing at each other, trying their best to be the most prominent. Long expensive wigs, perfect make ups, designer clothings, dating fellow top notch socialite in their circle. What an attractive way of life!
Actors and actresses who play the same roles all the time, in fact roles that fit their lifestyle, so maybe not acting just living their life out on TV, handsome and beautiful people flaunting expensive dressing and living in style.
On the flip side, we have a Nigeria ridden in poverty and getting poorer by the day, a Nigeria lacking in basic social amenities, a country ridden with inflation, crime, corruption, incompetence... fill up the list.
Lest I forget, we also have people like the leader of Ugbo Kingdom in Ondo state who is the first black to own the newest Bentley, a 2014 model. People like Oba Akinruntan, another ruler in Ondo state who owns a personalised Rolls Royce similar to the Queen's.
In a poor and developing country, the rich and flamboyant are made the focal point and quite naturally, the envy of youths. So youngsters think of ways to fit in, ways to jump on the band wagon of 'let's get rich and famous' craze.
Like the smell of a delicious cooking meal that is out of reach and may never be tasted....
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