Take for instance the recent pronouncement that Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living below the poverty line. Contrary to what obtained in Nigeria, in India, intellectuals and the political elite were as shocked as some others outside the country by the UN announcement. Against this backdrop, the targeting of Africa through trying to paint Nigeria, its biggest economy, in bad light is as puzzling as it is inexplicable. Yet this combination of diseases occurs with monotonous regularity in some other continent annually, but such continent is never subjected to the type of campaign of calumny that Africa is being subjected to. Photo: EMMANUEL IKODOR, TODAY NEWS AFRICA– Adeyemi Ishola is a public affairs analyst

Source: The North Africa Journal April 29, 2019 12:33 UTC