As nice as working remotely sounds, it’s not all roses and sunshine. There’s nothing Nigeria — sprinkled with bad luck from your village people — can’t make difficult.

You wake up to no light

Heaven knows you want to work, but of course, Nigeria has other ideas. Worse still, you exhausted your fuel supply running your gen the whole day yesterday.

You go and queue for fuel

In a bid to not miss deadlines, you rush out to get more fuel. But fuel is gold, so you just wish you didn’t have to work to earn a living. Who came up with the cycle of paying to go to school, working to get money and spending money to work again?

Your generator decides to disgrace you

Struggling to get fuel is bad enough, but getting it and then pulling your gen’s rope like 13 times without a positive “vrooommmm” is even worse. By some bad luck, the generator is faulty, so you put on your engineering hat and try to figure out what’s wrong. Of course, that fails, so it’s time to call Ola, the gen repairer.

Ola says you need a new generator

Okay, I need a new generator. But please, let it just work this morning. I have meetings to attend.

You beg your annoying neighbour for help

It’s a lot worse when you’ve been carrying shoulder for a while. With tails between your legs, you go to beg for their mercy. Let them just put on their generator for a while.

Then your internet stops working

Nigerian internet service providers are in a competition to see who can annoy their customers the most. But the only thing worse than begging your neighbour to put on their generator for you is asking to share their hotspot. 

You still missed the meeting

Thinking you’ve completed all the major tasks, you go back to your house to take a short nap. You set an alarm and settle into your bed. But when you wake up, you notice a yellow sun setting in the west. You’ve slept through the alarm. Talk about village people working overtime. At this point, you know you’ve messed up.