it was once believed that persons living under $1.00 per day are poor?
If that is the case then I do not think poverty exists in Nigeria.
I am very sure that no Nigerian lives below $1.00 per day.
Just think about it ,

I admire your question sir. I believe that poverty is in the eye of the beholder so to speak. If you think your of poor status than thats what you are in your own opinion but others looking at your situation are apt to believe otherwise.

$1 is equal 152 naira, what can that buy?

What can a man with 3kids buy with $1?

poverty is a state of mind

to start with this i must say is a very briliant question, nontheless, i think that word can only exist when one thinks he doest not have enough to sustain him.

Poverty isn't isolated. For one to be poor, he must have the potentials of being rich but fails to attain affluence. Being poor is in relation to either ideology or materialism as a man full of ideas but without cash/assets is not really poor.

Thanks a lot for the thought provoking post ( ideas), i have said that Nigerians are not poor at all, only if we could realize ourselves, most especially the youths technologically and deliver people from lack of information, (knowledge, Hosea 4v6), this Nation is very rich, it is just the mentality of thinking that buying a jeep makes you a rich man, the Jones

you must not have seen those poverty stricken folk without 2 coins to rub together in the village.

Poverty is a thing of the mind.It took me quite a while to really understand it.In lay terms, you are who YOU are in the mind.For instance, you see a young man with a N50 million mansion, CLS Mercedes and BMW X6 in the drive way. . .it didn't just "appear" from no where.It started as a project in his mind and he worked steadily towards it.Riches just don't "happen" like that.It starts in the mind.Everything you are and everything you achieve today starts in your mind and it takes determination to bring it to reality.The way it comes doesn't matter SO LONG as it happens (either by hook or by crook).

Nuff said!