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Nigerians Don't Hate Oppression, They Just Hate Being Oppressed

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Photo Credit: I3ayo_ It rained heavily that day in Lagos, and I was more worried about the traffic than getting wet. To be honest, in a city where everybody seems to be in a hurry, we spend too much time in Lagos traffic.  I lost my ATM a few weeks back, and I have procrastinated going to the bank to get a new one, thank God for POS agents, I can still make withdrawals.  Sorry I digress, on this particular day, I was coming from VI and had taken a bus to CMS, I was low low cash, but had just enough money to take me home or so I thought. I contemplated using POS, but my intuition kept telling me what if the network is bad? What if the transaction fails and I get debited? I just respected myself and said I was going to do it the next morning. I got to the bus stop and met a battalion of workers struggling to catch a bus, all of a sudden they started to come down. I wondered why they were coming from a bus they were struggling for less than a minute ago, only for me to find out t...