POVERTY IN AFRICAN: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE:

Please: what is poverty? That’s the question that our president asked when about 74 million Nigerian are living in Abject poverty. Lofty dreams, lofty Ideas, great thinking, but will the African leaders (Nigerian) ever achieve them. There are some inventions, the NAPEP (poverty eradication programs) that is managed by the egocentric men.

In the developing world, I person in 7 goes is bed hungry every night. Worldwide, about 800 million – 200 million of the, children – are chronically malnourished, sometime between 1988 and 1992, some 550 children in the African sub-region were selected to die by starvation, poverty hungry and malnutrition exist on such a high scale that they defy political economic and social efforts to eliminate them, indeed, the situation is not improving but worsening.

What a world, come to think of a small African village where a man Okot and his wife Matina named their first daughter Acan meaning, I am poor. What does the future hold for such a family in most causes, the average Nigerian man is placed on salary, which is a government idea for you to remain perpetually poor, some earn as little as $190 a year while others ear as high as $21, 598 dollars yearly.

Poverty has eaten deed into our senses, if not how can a man in his right sense become a political thug, using himself as shield or bullet proof to cover the politician that gives him just a little of the national wealth.

Most people in Nigeria never escape abject poverty. It denies them their most basic needs – foods, clothing and shelter. It has robbed them of freedom, dignity, education and good health. The world health organization says; poverty wields its destructive influence at every stage of human life, from the moment of conception to the grave, it conspire with the most deadly and painful diseases to bring a wretched existence to all who suffer from it – little wonder did Mubutu Seseko of Zimbabwe said that before Aids submit should be held in Africa, that poverty should be treated first; that the absence of poverty will reduce aids.

FESTUS OKIKE UKPA