Comedy skit-making has become a big part of Nigeria’s creative industry. Rated the world’s happiest people by the World Values Survey in 2003, Nigerians are noted for their resilience, and have always found a way to make light of bad situations.
And as President Muhammadu Buhari leaves office today, after eight years of presiding over a far more divided country with highest inflation in its recent history, unprecedented unemployment rate, widespread insecurity, and finally, a flawed election, many have decided to, in rather ligh-thearted manner, award themselves ‘Survivor Certificate,’ that reads, “The bearer of this certificate is hereby proclaimed as a survivor of the Muhammadu Buhari led administration, from May 2015 to May 2023, in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
