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What can you do about it

The Nigerian youth is daily faced with the question of what our government really stands for and if they ever really have the interest of the youths at heart. Several days back through a social media I got to the information that the present administration has decided to print new currencies and make the lower denominations of the naira into coins and I begin to wonder if that is what we really need. I often make bold to say sir that I maybe like you was not born with a silver spoon and I had to toil from a very tender age to earn a little to keep body and soul together. As a child I knew the meaning of 25 kobo in those days and my grand ma would often lament at the loss of the value of the naira. She always insisted on referring to 10 Naira as five pounds and as I write now, I begin to wonder if this would ever become a possibility again in the Nigerian history. I remember when all we could afford to eat was beans because it was cheap, but today 10 cups of beans in Ibadan is