The Economist’s review of lawmakers’ salaries in 29 nations unsurprisingly hurled Nigeria up the pay rungs, at $189, 500 (about N30 million) in average annually for each Senator or member of the House of Representatives. The figure is second only to Australia.

Relative to each country’s per capita- how much each citizen of each nation is worth when their nation’s total wealth is shared by her population- Nigeria assumed its rightful top, followed by Kenya and Ghana, two other poor African nations, relative to other matched countries.

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