Social Commentator and Political analyst, Ademola Adigun has said the answer to lifting Nigerians out of poverty is not farming, lifting the standards, quality and access to education and health.

He also said Nigeria needs a digital leadership not dinosaurs.

He said this in a post shared on his Facebook page.

The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has been urging Nigerians across the country to be involve more in farming.

But Adigun said farming an anecdote to poverty is a lazy thinking.

His post read…

A friend told me that most of us are one illness away from poverty. A worrying fact.

If your kidneys pack up in Nigeria, you will spend an average of 300k monthly to stay alive or more.

If you have a debilitating stroke, asides the loss of income, your rehabilitation might gulp 500k monthly.

Now it might not be you, might be your loved one. Most health insurance service providers do not cover these illnesses

How many earn 500k monthly from business or salaries? Less than 3% of the population according to CBN.

Yet, the NASS and the First Lady are fixated on social media regulation. They do not see an emergency intervention in health and education as important.

Despite all his private visits to London, the President is yet to direct an intervention in upgrading one tertiary teaching hospital in each of the 6 zones. Nor have we made efforts to retain health workers!

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Farming is a big man business ...its not for the poor ...

yet China is doing it

Na Yahoo be the antidote, awon werey.

farming is antidote to famine not poverty

He is right about health and education but wrong on agriculture.

He could have mentioned 20th century agriculture that reduced the number of farmers while increasing their produce as in USA.

But the best prevention from diseases is enough healthy and cheap food so that you don't have to spend more on diseases.

Medicine and innovation do not work on empty belly. We saw that during Ebola emergency. It is what you eat before diseases that matters because you may not be able to retain new food after.

This is why doctors and nurses order families to get their sick relatives fed before. Treatment.

Actually, food is all some people need and they rush them to hospital to burden over worked doctors, nurses and health workers and Assistants.

Why won't they be frustrated?

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He is right about health and education but wrong on agriculture.

He could have mentioned 20th century agriculture that reduced the number of farmers while increasing their produce as in USA.

But the best prevention from diseases is enough healthy and cheap food so that you don't have to spend more on diseases.

Medicine and innovation do not work on empty belly. We saw that during Ebola emergency. It is what you eat before diseases that matters because you may not be able to retain new food after.

This is why doctors and nurses order families to get their sick relatives fed before. Treatment.

Actually, food is all some people need and they rush them to hospital to burden over worked doctors, nurses and health workers and Assistants.

Why won't they be frustrated?

Industrialization is also based on the whole agriculture and allied industries. Ethanol is produced from corn and cassava can be used as an alternative/additive to petrol. Hemp is a utility plant that can be used for a variety of products.