{"id":17941,"date":"2024-12-18T10:41:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T10:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/?p=17941"},"modified":"2024-12-18T10:41:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T10:41:38","slug":"theres-just-something-about-this-place-that-drains-your-excellence-adekunle-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/theres-just-something-about-this-place-that-drains-your-excellence-adekunle-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"“There\u2019s just something about this place that drains your excellence.” – Adekunle Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigerian singer Adekunle Gold has ignited a heated online discussion after expressing his frustrations with living in Nigeria, advising his fellow citizens on X to safeguard their passions, as he believes the country can be emotionally exhausting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span><\/span>There\u2019s just something about this place that drains your excellence. Striving for it here feels futile, as the environment pulls you down until you become just like everyone else. Whatever you do, guard your passion fiercely, be firm and never settle for less.”<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Adekunle Gold’s post resonated with numerous Nigerians, who flooded his comment section with their thoughts and personal stories of struggling to cope and thrive in the country.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some comments:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span><\/span>Nigeria on a daily basis”<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“They’ll tell you , speak positive things about Nigeria What is positive that I can’t enjoy as a citizen too? Is this the way we get treated outside? The place we call home isn’t feeling like home at all? Nothing works.”<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“<\/span><\/span>Well it\u2019s the place we tap initial energy and renew strength. Diamond doesn\u2019t do get excited in the fire. But it\u2019s at best and it\u2019s excellent on a pretty lady\u2019s ring finger. That\u2019s how I like to see this place. It\u2019s not the best place to be but we\u2019re usually better for it.”<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“<\/span><\/span>If AG with all his influence and connections dey feel am, no hope for you wey be regular man on the streets. You go kpai”<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“AG, you gat the money, every available resources to leave the country. This country no be life we dey live inside so. Even rich people dey complain.. wetin person like me wan come talk? Naija failed US”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigerian singer Adekunle Gold has ignited a heated online discussion after expressing his frustrations with living in Nigeria, advising his fellow citizens on X to safeguard their passions, as he believes the country can be emotionally exhausting. “There\u2019s just something about this place that drains your excellence. Striving for it here feels futile, as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1491,2136,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-17941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-adekunle-gold","9":"tag-adekunle-gold-express-his-frustration-with-living-in-niagara","10":"tag-celebrities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17943,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17941\/revisions\/17943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}