From an outside perspective, one will expect Nigerians to be the most comfortable people in the world.
After all, we have a maximum crude oil
production capacity of 2.5 million barrels per day (According to NNPC)
and then there’s the story of the young moneyed Nigerians who are
living it UP (Click here to read).
But unfortunately that’s certainly not the case.
On Tuesday 12th November 2013, the World Bank Country Director for Nigeria Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly, was at the World Bank’s Country Programme Portfolio Review in Enugu.
According to Punch, she revealed that about 100 million Nigerians live in abject poverty.
Marie revealed that the number of
Nigerians living in destitution make up 8.33% of the total number of
people living in destitution around the world.
“One billion two hundred thousand
people live in destitution out of which 100 million are Nigerians.
Inequality is rising in many developing nations”, she said.
She did also reveal that the World
Bank’s commitment to Nigeria stands at $5.34 Billion. The number of is
said to reduce drastically by 2030.
SOURCE: Bella Naija
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