Nigeria is rich in human and material resources, the country’s wealth has not been translated into meaningful gains for the vast population of ordinary people. Instead, the vast national wealth has been hijacked by the elite, a ruling class ...
on the top of the global and national agenda. This is amidst measures such as social distancing, lockdown, and the likes, all geared towards improving public health safety. While palliatives have been used repeatedly to suggest an effort by governments and well-meaning individuals to support the less privileged, the vulnerable and poor, the term has also acquired some unfortunate connotations.
Combating poverty has remained top on the national agenda for many years with several past governments in Nigeria either genuinely pursuing policies to reduce poverty or paying lip service to the aggravated cases of the rising annual poverty rate. Reckoned as the poorest country in the world, according to data released by the Brookings Institution in 2018, Nigeria currently has over 90 million citizens living below the poverty line.
The poverty situation in Nigeria did not need the COVID-19 to reveal its true extent since without this health crisis the nation is already suffering heavy consequences as a result of growing poverty rates. The COVID-19 pandemic has merely made it worse. Global poverty rates are projected to rise from this pandemic. For instance, researchers from the Columbia University project about 15.
This is so because the government seems not determined to solve the problems that have continued to force people into poverty. The various poverty alleviation programs by governments in Nigeria, past and present, have often turned out to be insufficient in addressing the real causes nor indeed, prevent an eventual crisis of poverty. This current government led by Mr.
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