MY COUNTRY: WHERE DID WE GET IT WRONG IN NIGERIA?.-EAGLESFORESIGHT

To argue the peace and unity of Nigeria at this epoch is deniable. A baby waiting for delivery needs no sorcerer nor soothsayer to predict or elaborate the ugly and peaceful away situation of the country. It begins to migrate from the bad to worst on daily basis. Amongst the current battling barbaric and horrific situations of the country are; insecurity, poverty and inflation.

 

The high level of insecurity in the country gulped up during the previous administration as numerous towns and communities in the part of the northern region were dominated by the bandits and rendered many homeless. All efforts and logics put together by the previous administration to ease the fire put fruitless.

During the electioneering campaign of the present administration. It pledged that if elected, insecurity would disappear into the tiny air and becomes the tale of the past in less than three months of assumption of office, but, rather than stemming the tide, it becomes more horrible under the present administration, as bandits and herders continue to perpetrate their evils without government measures to curtain the havoc trend.

 

However, insecurity as a matter of fact could be attributed to joblessness on the part of the teemed graduates roaming round the street without any engagement whatsoever. As popular Yoruba aphorism goes; Ebi ki wo inu ki oro mi ran wo (You can’t be feeling hunger and attend to other issues). These unemployed graduates are leveraged on and recruited to disturb the peace and foment troubles in the country.

Hence, government should make it a constitutional duty to create more series of empowerment programs for the youths so as to be able to engage and meet their needs.

 

Moreso, It is crystal clear that poverty has become the order of the day in the country. Nigerians are obviously wallowing in the shamble and abject poverty. This is caused as a result of the meagre or no attentions of the government to the welfarism of the citizens.

The macro-micro simulations show that more than 10 million Nigerians could be pushed into poverty by the economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis alone. Were the crisis not to have hit (a “counterfactual” scenario), the poverty headcount rate—as per the national poverty line—would remain virtually unchanged at a little over 40%, although the number of poor people would be set to rise from 82.9 million in 2019 to 90.0 million in 2022 due to natural population growth.

Yet with the economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis, the national poverty rate is instead forecast to jump from 40.1% in 2019 to 45.2% in 2022, implying that 100.9 million Nigerians will be living in poverty by 2022. Taking the difference between these two scenarios shows that the COVID-19 crisis alone is forecast to drive an additional 10.9 million people into poverty by 2022. What is more, these simulations only cover monetary poverty: multidimensional poverty is even more widespread in Nigeria and is also set to rise as the crisis evolves.

The dividends of democracy and equality distribution of common wealth fought for by our heroes had long been marginalized as some groups of influential people continue to selfishly milking up the common wealth.

 

Alas! The rate at which the prices of commodities are gulping up in the country these days is so alarming as it maintains 15.97%. Inflation is eating us down the bone. However, more local and ingenious industries should be established to enhance higher local productivity in order to boast the exports and slow down the import goods.