This piece is quite contextual and do have layers of exceptions. Being born in Nigeria on it's own, comes with a bigger lean of weight on disadvantages than the perks. It has become very easy and cliché to label a poor or an unsuccessful Nigerian as lazy or foolish. The latter is specifically pointing at the shady routes to riches or success in one's dealings through crooked backdoor channels or going dark and occultic. The concept of thriving for an extraordinary level of success, let's say squeezing your way into a fortune 500 company position in Nigeria, top 10 on forbes list, holding an influential position with high relevance or even get a comfortable mid class level job has been placed on a code access restriction, firstly with the total ridicule of the substance of a degree certificate. The previously listed opportunities or positions are like family, cabal and clique controlled in the country. Nigeria is like the leading figure of nepotism and favoritis
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