Human Rights
From Bad to Worse: Global Freedom Declines for the 18th Consecutive Year
Global freedom is under siege.
Shereefdeen Ahmad
April 5, 2024
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Global freedom is under siege.
The essence of financial freedom lies in the ability to make choices aligned with personal interests and goals, and this new policy appears to curtail that autonomy.
Nigerians don’t necessarily need alms, they only need an environment that makes it possible for them to make money and create wealth.
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.
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.
When you look at a slave, you resent how miserable he is. Of course, he is poor because he possesses no property rights, no right to choose which business to venture into or what to sell, and no right to the fruit of his labour since he labours only for his master.
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