Recently on my TikTok live, we talked about this new Tax system, the one that says if you earn below ₦800,000 annually, you won’t pay tax. And everybody seems happy. Maybe some of you don’t know what annually means. Let’s calm down and do simple math. ₦800,000 a year is ₦66,000 a month. Do you know it is impossible to survive in present-day Nigeria on ₦66k? Anybody claiming they can is either drowning in debt, living on someone else’s support, or simply being dishonest. But “Once I get my LLC I will evade the tax” typical Nigerians. Before APC in 2015, when I was in Uniben, I used to survive on ₦10k a month. On days I was tired in the hostel, I would stroll out and buy ₦110 bread and beans with sachet water. To get by sometimes. Today? That same basic meal is ₦1,050, and that is just one meal that might not even hold you for the whole day. Now imagine an officer earning ₦77k a month, that’s ₦994k a year. Under this new law, he still has to pay 15%. What exactly does ₦77k do for anybody in this economy? Can you survive on ₦77,000? Even you that are earning ₦250,000 a month, what is the quality of your life? After you remove rent, transportation, petrol, electricity units, feeding, and normal survival expenses, what is left? Now you’re to pay tax from it can’t you see the stupidity? Last month I contributed money to buy a transformer for my street. Every month, I pay for “security.” I fix my own road, my own light, my own basic survival, last year police kidnapped me and stole my money. Everyday we complain what does the government do? Laugh and gist? So let me ask: Where is the money from the subsidy removal? Where is the money saved from “not defending the naira” anymore? Where is all the new revenue government parastatals are suddenly declaring? And this administration have even borrowed more than others. How has ANY of those made your life better? Why are some of you pretending this tax is a good idea? What has this government done to earn the level of praise some of you are giving them? Black people we are still selling ourselves in 2025? Why are we taxing poor people? Why can’t we have a government that shows real empathy and character? Is that not the bare minimum we deserve? Why defend suffering? Why normalize hardship? Why are we like this?