In 2018 when Nigeria took the poverty title from India, she had 89.8m people (or 46% of the population) in extreme poverty. The result is that just one year later, there are now 102,407,327 Nigerians—half the country’s population—in extreme poverty. That figure also represents 14.8 per cent of the world’s population living in extreme poverty. With the kind of leadership Buhari is providing, however, the next three years are guaranteed to be worse than the last five. His best gift to Nigeria, especially to the only part he appears to be interested in, would be for him to let someone else do this job.

Source: Punch June 06, 2020 23:26 UTC