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Some still have money, there are still Billionaires but majority of Nigerians are getting poorer.
34yrs old Dolapo Bolade surprised many of his friends and family members recently when his wife, Adebisi, was delivered of their first baby. A highly sociable young man who regularly attended parties and kept a network of revellers as buddies, there were expectations of a big gig from almost every quarter immediately the business man’s daughter, Ifeoluwa, arrived.
Men, women, young and old – all who knew him had their eyes fixed on August 31, 2016. But when the day finally arrived, Bolade shocked everyone…
“Immediately people heard that my wife had been delivered of a baby, a lot of them started calling me, asking how big the naming ceremony was going to be, whether there would be aso ebi and which musician I was hiring to perform at the event.
“There was too much expectation but inside of me, I just laughed because a lot of these people don’t seem to understand what I am passing through at the moment,” Bolade said during a friendly chat with a Punch reporter earlier in the week.
“On the eve of the naming ceremony, some friends called and even came to my house to find out how I was preparing for the next day,” he continued. “But they were all surprised when I revealed that there was not going to be any elaborate ceremony. What we simply did on that Tuesday morning was to give the baby a name, no ceremony whatsoever followed,” he added.
This is the reality in many homes today, with the poor state of the economy. If you want to do a party, the things you could buy with 50k before, now even with N110k you will struggle to meet up.
Those into catering and events planning are already complaining of low patronage.
#LetsKeepHoping

The spokesman added that among the rescued ''include 21 children and a 6 day old infant, 7 women including and 3 nursing mothers as well as two elderly male adults.''
The 7th Army Division rescued no fewer than 30 civilians, including a six-day-old infant child, in Dikwa, Borno State yesterday.The announcement was given to members of the media in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, through electronic message from the 7th Division spokesman, Colonel IT Gusau.He stated that ''as a result of ongoing operations, under the aegis of OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE, to clear Dikwa and its environs from Boko Haram terrorists. The troops of 7th Division yesterday rescued 30 internally displaced persons from the hands of the terrorists in KWAYABE and WUFE wards of DIKWA LGA in Borno State.''The spokesman added that among the rescued ''include 21 children and a 6 day old infant, 7 women including and 3 nursing mothers as well as two elderly male adults.''Nigerian troops reclaimed Dikwa town from Boko Haram terrorists last weekend after Dikwa had spent months under their control.Our troops also discovered a training center inside the vandalized and looted Palace of the Shehu of Dikwa where weapons and anti-aircraft training was being taught to fresh Boko Haram recruits.

The Ooni of Ife, Alayeluwa Oba Okunade Sijuwade is dead. He died today in London at the age of 85.Oba Sijuwade was the fifth Ooni of Ife. He climbed unto the throne on December 6, 1980. As the Ooni of Ife, he presided over the Ife territory, in the South West Nigeria but his influence went far and beyond.He came into office at the height of the supremacyfight amongst Yoruba Obas. The crisis pitched him against the Alaafin of Oyo. It festered on until Osun state was carved out of the old Oyo State.Before he became an Oba, he studied at Abeokuta Grammar School and later at Northampton College in the United Kingdom before he became a manager at Leventis stores.Oba Sijuwade’s term as Oba was characterised with political treachery, as he was one of the traditional rulers that meddled in politics. He was infamously instrumental to the annulment of June12, 1993, elections won by late Moshood Abiola. The Ooni  had also been severally fingered in the failed effort to have Senator Iyiola Omisore elected the governor of Osun state in 2011. He survived by several wives and children.