The Epidemic of Poverty in Northern Nigeria, Dangote and Girl Rising
The World Bank has estimated that 87% of all the poor people in Nigeria are in the north. ... Poverty was significantly higher in rural areas of the country in 2016. “An estimated 64 percent of all poor lived in rural areas and 52 percent of the rural population lived below the poverty line in
87% of Nigeria's poverty is situated in the north, where ironically is the region of the richest black man in the world, billionaire Alhaji Aliko Dangote; and the same region where majority of the Heads of State of Nigeria came from since 1960 to date. Their failures in the sustainable human development of northern Nigeria caused the widespread abject poverty endemic to the northern region.
I started the Girl Rising campaign in Nigeria when I organised the Nigerian première of "Girl Rising" documentary film which inspired the global @girlrising movement in 2013. The USAID sponsored the Girl Rising Nigeria education project in Kano, because only the education of the millions of poor girls out of school will end the epidemic of abject poverty in northern Nigeria. But the ruling class of the predominantly Muslims in northern Nigeria prefer to promote child abuse of the millions of the underprivileged girls out school by using them as housemaids, factory workers, girl brides in early marriages and concubines in their harems. Therefore, the millions of poor girls out of school in northern Nigeria are regular supply chain of cheap labour and sex slaves to the rich ruling class and their middle class.
- EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series
247 Nigeria (@247nigeria) / Twitter
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