According to the 2010 UNDP estimates, life expectancy for a male child in Nigeria is 48.4 years. At 51 years as an independent nation, Nigeria has outlived most of its children. Eight percent of Nigeria’s 150 million people are malnourished. Nigeria spends about 1.7% of its GDP on the health of its people. Adult literacy in Nigeria is 74.8 %. Less than 53% of school aged Nigerian children are enrolled in school. For every 1000 births in Nigeria, 186 will die before the age of five. About 16 people out of every 100 Nigerians have access to the internet. Our government spends less than 0.9% of Nigeria’s GDP on education. Nigeria’s GDP per capital is $2289. Income inequality stands at 0.246. For every 100,000 women that give birth, 1100 will die. Amongst all the nations in the world, Nigeria stands at 142 out of 186 in overall development index.

In Gadhafi’s Libya, life expectancy is 74.5 years. Libya spends about 1.9% of its GDP on the health of its people. Adult literacy in Libya is 88.3 %. Over 95.8% of school aged Libyan children are enrolled in school. For every 1000 births in Libya, 17 will die before the age of five. Libyan government spends 3.4% of its GDP on education. Libya’s GDP per capital is $16,999.

That is our manhood. It is so miserable that it could as well be regarded as having “disappeared.” Almost all of these statistics were a lot better 40 years ago.