
Why Nigeria’s Poverty Persists Despite Social Investment Initiatives
Nigerians don’t necessarily need alms, they only need an environment that makes it possible for them to make money and create wealth.

Nigerians don’t necessarily need alms, they only need an environment that makes it possible for them to make money and create wealth.

Section 15 empowers the regulatory commission to refuse the registration of an NGO simply because “it is satisfied that the applicant should not be registered”.

…Singapore recognises cryptocurrency as a major economic booster; hence, it places no restrictions on its trade. Likewise, Switzerland, Germany, and the US. These countries recognise the advantages of cryptocurrency and prioritise it as one of their economic boosters.

It was learnt that Betta Edu issued a memo to the Accountant General of the Federation in December 2023, ordering the amount in question to be paid into the civil servant’s private bank account… Since 1999, which was the emergence of civilian rule that marked the era of the Fourth Republic, there have been 17 suspended ministers.

Under the NBS’s new system, ’employed’ individuals are anyone in the working-age population who engage in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit… Government uses these types of metrics to determine what to tax and who to tax, and the data processing unit might just be laying a foundation for the government to trap the poor struggling working class into taxation.

…In October last year, 2023, it was reported that a woman bathed her husband with hot oil while asleep over an argument. In the same year sometimes in December, a woman was arrested for a disturbing incident—allegedly pouring scalding hot water on her husband. The Lagos State Government through its Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) revealed 1,108 men to have reportedly been subjected to domestic abuse in six years.

For over a decade, NPFL, despite being the highest-level club football league system in the country, has continued to remain a shadow of its old self.

It is pertinent for the Nigerian government to review policies that might be holding the country back. The leaders must be championing economic freedom, transparent governance, and a commitment to protect human rights

The series of attacks witnessed by Nigerians in various parts of the country is proof that Nigerians are far from enjoying complete personal freedom…. If human freedom is worse, economic investment will not improve, which rings back to underdevelopment.

Nigerian police as an institution was revealed to be the most corrupt institution in Nigeria according to a survey released by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)…

Agbero informal taxes suck drivers their profits and rarely make it to government’s coffers

…the adoption of the e-voting was aimed at curbing election violence in NAKSS, and the students’ stress to allowing them to vote remotely and freely without fear or favour from their halls of residence.
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