No End to Nigeria’s Poverty Ranking in Sight

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By Terhemba Osuji

As I get older I cannot subscribe to the common rabid manic assumptions of critics. Watching channels and personalizing how I would solve Nigeria’s problems, I tried to Picture all they villagers i know and thought about what I would do as Governor and President to lift them out of multi-dimensional poverty without blindly sharing money. 

Then my mind wandered to how I would finance these plans plans, how long would it take, and how do you measure it to declare success or boast about lifting people out of poverty.


The more I thought about it from studying how to tackle poverty they more I realize that Nigeria does not even have a rudimentary system of disseminating benefits, nor does it really have the data or infrastructure to even begin to tackle it.


Armchair critics have all the answers but in all honesty the challenges of tackling poverty are just too great, in fact I am not sure that any government in Nigeria can even begin to tackle poverty in the near term.


People really need to adjust expectations and stop thinking that the PDP or APC have immediate solutions to our poverty.


In fact Nigerians need to embrace the reality of a sustained period of multi-dimensional poverty for a long time before we crawl out of it through austerity measures, declaration of insolvency and restructuring of our bureaucracy and population control, but only if we act now.


The future for the common man on the street is indeed very bleak indeed and nature will wreak havoc through the death of millions for several years until some sort of equilibrium is reached.


Our problems are beyond Buhari or Atiku and they each have no solutions because there are simply none in the light of increasing responsibilities and diminished revenues.


Nigeria is indeed in trouble unfortunately no one truly understands how poor the country is and they drastic measures neither the APC or the PDP are prepared to take to fix Nigeria.


Nigeria’s poverty may possibly last for 10 more years before an auto correct happens through natural attrition than by government policies.


By Terhemba Osuji

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