A lot of us by now may
have seen the new N100 notes that just got circulated this past Friday. What do
you guys think of it? Personally, I think it’s the prettiest of all the naira
notes we have as of now. May be the Federal Government and
the Central Bank may have plans for the other denominations but that I doubt very much. I do know that
the N100 was only printed in celebration of
the centenary. I make bold to say that these new bills could pass for an
euro bill or a pound note. (You could argue in your bed).
Today, I paid someone
for the services they rendered, but of course from the new N100 bills and tonight, she called to tell me that she went
to the market and was refused to buy food. That the people she tried buying
food from told her that the money isnt from Nigeria. At first I thought she
exaggerated the gist a little, but then I found out that she was telling the
truth. She was illiterate, and so were the people at the market. When I paid her
for the services she had rendered me in the morning, was she blind to not have
noticed what money was given to her? The currency says Central Bank of Nigeria.
Shouldn’t they have known by now how to spell NIGERIA? I would be happy
spending new notes, or for the sake of getting people's attention to make them ask for change from me. Don’t you guys think?
Everyone in this country
is either paranoid about who is winining next year’s election, or whether their neighbor has been sent from their
village to witch- haunt them. We get very worried over the littliest things and
this bothers me.
