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| 100 Million Nigerians Live In Destitution – World Bank by Controversy: 6:33am On Nov 13, 2013 |
About 100 million Nigerians live in destitution, the World Bank has said. The World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly, said this at the bank’s Country Programme Portfolio Review in Enugu on Tuesday. She said that the bank’s ongoing commitment to Nigeria stood at $5.34bn. According to the World Bank boss, the number of Nigerians living in destitution makes up 8.33 per cent of the total number of people living in destitution all over the world, which the bank plans to reduce drastically by 2030. She said, “1.2 billion people live in destitution out of which 100 million are Nigerians. Inequality is rising in many developing nations. “For this reason, the World Bank’s corporate perspective has shifted more strategically in the past year. The World Bank wants to galvanise international and national support around two goals: to end extreme poverty in a generation and to push for greater equality. “To end extreme poverty, the World Bank Group’s goal is to decrease the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 a day from 20 per cent today to three per cent by 2030. “The goal is to promote income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population in each country. In Nigeria, 63 per cent of the population live on less than $1.25 a day.” Marie-Nelly said although the World Bank was the largest overseas development agency that provided assistance to Nigeria, the contribution of the organisation to the country was very small compared to the budgets of the states and the Federal Government. She said if the World Bank’s small assistance could produce so much result because of effective implementation and monitoring, the revenues accruable to the country could do much more if they were similarly utilised. Giving a more graphic picture of the World Bank’s credit to Nigeria in relation to revenues accruing to the nation, Marie-Nelly said while the bank’s total commitment to Nigeria amounted to $4.67bn by 2012, the budget of the states and Federal Government amounted to $64.05bn in the same year. She said the World Bank’s portfolio amounted to $5.34bn as of June 2013, while the budget of the Federal Government alone for 2013 amounted to $31.17bn. She said the bank had shifted from being Federal Government centric to a more balanced federal and state level support. She said the annual Country Programme Portfolio Review, which the bank undertakes with various governments, was necessary to assess the progress in achieving the development objectives as well as the quality of implementation of the projects. http://www.punchng.com/news/100-million-nigerians-live-in-destitution-world-bank-2/ |
| Re: 100 Million Nigerians Live In Destitution – World Bank by Controversy: 6:41am On Nov 13, 2013 |
This is the Nigerian situation for the last few decades.. Fela Kuti sang about it and sacrificed his life to expose this truth, agitate and demand for a better deal for Nigerians. Yet today some people are still deceiving themselves that there is a transformation going on, and that the country is doing fine.. 1. A country that produces one of the largest amounts of raw crude-oil in the world yet is the largest importer of crude-oil derived products. 2. A country that wastes over 50% of the food it produces because of lack of stable 24hrs electricity to improve storage of such Agricultural produce. 3. A country where the ordinary citizen can be arrested without formal charges, killed extra-judicially and suffer all forms of human rights abuses. 4. A country composed of over 250 ethnic nationalities who in most cases mutually distrust and even despise themselves.. 5. A country where corruption has been institutionalized to a point where corrupt public office holders can no longer be held accountable for their crimes, because “oga at the top, does not give a damn”.. 6. A country that spends less than 5% of it’s budget on education and healthcare for it’s citizens.. The list is endless.. One thing is certain, this generation of Nigerians are not going to sit down and allow some 50, 60 and even 90year old youths, to continue deceiving us in the guises of religion, ethnicity or false national ideals.. Nigeria is just a geographic expression, it does not even qualify as a country, talk less of a nation.. The solution is simple, we either restructure Nigeria into a genuine federation with regional autonomy and 100% resource control, or we split it into autonomous countries based on ethnic nationalities (or a mix of ethnicities based on mutual consent) and their aboriginal lands.. Nigeria is not working, Nigeria is a failed state.. The “born to rule” and “na our time to chop”, pls stop deceiving yourselves, enough is enough.. 2 Likes |
| Re: 100 Million Nigerians Live In Destitution – World Bank by geeez: 7:13am On Nov 13, 2013 |
Controversy: This is the Nigerian situation for the last few decades.. Fela Kuti sang about it and sacrificed his life to expose this truth, agitate and demand for a better deal for Nigerians. Yet today some people are still deceiving themselves that there is a transformation going on, and that the country is doing fine.. Spot on |
| Re: 100 Million Nigerians Live In Destitution – World Bank by Controversy: 7:50am On Nov 13, 2013 |
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| Re: 100 Million Nigerians Live In Destitution – World Bank by Nobody: 8:01am On Nov 13, 2013 |
Controversy: This is the Nigerian situation for the last few decades.. Fela Kuti sang about it and sacrificed his life to expose this truth, agitate and demand for a better deal for Nigerians. Yet today some people are still deceiving themselves that there is a transformation going on, and that the country is doing fine.. My opinion is that at least 100 million Nigerians are not aware of what you wrote here. I have never seen people with so much capacity to suffer and do nothing about it. 1 Like |
| Re: 100 Million Nigerians Live In Destitution – World Bank by adahib: 8:10am On Nov 13, 2013 |
This is common knowledge. Unfortunately, the situation won't improve anytime soon. Pity... |
| Re: 100 Million Nigerians Live In Destitution – World Bank by bloggernaija: 8:54am On Nov 13, 2013 |
Awo On Nigeria As Created By The British "It is incontestable that the British not only made Nigeria, but also hand it to us whole on their surrender of power. But the Nigeria, which they handed over to us, had in it the forces of its own disintegration. It is up to contemporary Nigerian leaders to neutralize these forces, preserve the Nigerian inheritance, and make all our people free, forward-looking and prosperous. " - The Peoples' Republic, 1968. Awo On People's Revolt Against Bad Leadership "A greedy, corrupt, and evil administration is bound to wither, sooner or later, in the face of obsessive desire and mounting clamour on the part of the masses of the people for a welfare regime which will benefit all equally. In the course of time there will be a clash of desires and wills between the exploiters and the exploited. These clash of desires and wills will stir the universal mind into action, and a situation will then arise which will bring about the termination of or radical change in the greedy, and evil regime." - The People's Republic, 1968 Awo on Africa's Dependence on Former Colonial Masters "Today, Africa is a continent of COMPETING BEGGAR-NATIONs. We vie with one another for favours from our former colonial masters; and we deliberately fall over one another to invite neo- colonialists to come over to our different territories to preside over our economic fortunes ... Unless a beggar resolutely shakes off, and irrevocably turns his back on, his begging habit, he will forever remain a beggar. For, the more he begs, the more he develops the beggar characteristics of lack of initiative, courage, drive and self-reliance." -Address to 4th OAU Summit in Kinshasa (1967): In Voice of Courage, 1981. |
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