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“I want to gradually work towards building a life around more creative and entrepreneurial things so that one day I can become my own boss”, she says.

Speaking on the country and Buhari’s administration, she iterated that the power sector and foreign exchange rates have to be looked into critically. As a trader, alongside her regular job, she says she has to overprice her products sometimes just to make some profit owing to the current rates at which she imports them.

Yejide Elugbaju, a professional makeup artist, who graduated with a first degree in Accounting while speaking with BusinessDay, says 2017 is the year to get a Masters Degree. With the current exorbitant exchange rates in the country, Elugbaju turns to the University of Lagos as her school of choice for an MSc degree contrary to the mass export of students to foreign countries in search of stronger portfolios and greener pastures.

She hopes to study a course in Finance as part of her plans to maximise her profits in the coming year from her makeup business.

“I want to go into my business fully by March. I don’t want to work for anyone again. If I ever have to, it has to be something that gives me time”, says Irene Ezima a Customer Relationship Officer at the Aquagem Dental Clinic.

Both the President, Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed have come out to assure Nigerians that the recession will ebb come 2017.

However, analyst expect a tougher year ahead. The respite of the economy come 2017 is multifaceted and the decisions the government takes henceforth as it relates to them will go a long way in deciding how the new year pans out.

We can only be sure of one thing: by this time next year, we will be able to say of a certainty if 2017 was a tough one or not.