Poverty Spares no one in Nigeria

Poverty spares no one in Nigeria

Nigeria is being overtaken by poverty causing people to be unable to raise their families. It’s said by May Bulman on Independent.co.uk that, “90,000 children could die of Severe Acute Malnutrition in the coming year”. The government is unable to help Nigerians out of poverty with their millions because of the fight against corruption. The CIA shows that over 70% of Nigerians are suffering from issues because of poverty and has remained that way for the past 10 years.

Some people may read this without giving it a second thought, but there are families suffering because of this. This leads to one of the issues that poverty is causing in Nigeria and it is health problems. So many people are suffering from malnutrition because of what little money they have. Unicef shows that nigerians are so deep in poverty, that 70% of people live on less than 1 dollar a day and try to live through the hell they’re forced to live in. It may not seem like much but, this nutrition that they’re missing out on really affects them which is shown by WFP (World Food Programme) who fights hunger worldwide. They show that every 1 out of 3 children are stunted which affects their growth. Hunger is also the main cause of death in Nigeria. Even though the situation of their hunger has been increasing since 1990, they still remain in a serious crisis for hunger because of the many people living in poverty. Even though that Nigeria isn’t the deepest in poverty it’s still so bad that even after 20 years it’s situation has still remained serious. They have also been missing out on the micronutrients that they need which will cause a much greater risk of chronic diseases such as cancer. All of this is being caused by one thing, poverty.

Another issue that poverty causes the people of Nigeria is, health and society issues. It’s shown just how bad the poverty is hitting the people of Nigeria but, it’s much worse when you actually see what poverty causes these people to do. Many people are having difficulty even living because that many Nigerians don’t have the money for medicine or to go to the doctor and, because of that many children born soon die because they aren’t immunized. Society is affected because many parents are unable to afford school supplies or clothing to send their child to school and they end up staying illiterate for the rest of their lives. Many people also remain unemployed because of their education and in turn, this causes the economy to continue to drop. The poverty is also causing many people to become homeless and increases theft because of the people who are unable to support themselves as the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. This really shows just how far down poverty has caused Nigeria to fall. It turns people into thieves, makes people sick, makes people hungry and so much more.

Nigeria seems doomed to fall further into this cycle as the government is rich enough to decrease the 60% of people in poverty greatly but it’s stuck fighting corruption leaving Nigerians all on their own. Nigerians have suffered so much much because they’re lacking what humans need to survive on their own. They suffer from hunger, from society and, from poverty. The source of all this tragedy began with poverty and it’ll continue until something is done to change Nigeria and help them out. After all the poor need others to be their light in these bleak times all around the world.

Works cited

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nigerian-children-starve-to-death-2017-nigeria-africa-help-unicef-international-community-aid-a7546176.html

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ni.html

https://www.wfp.org/stories/10-fact-about-food-and-nutrition-nigeria

https://www.unicef.org/wcaro/Countries_1320.html

http://nigerianfinder.com/causes-of-poverty-in-nigeria/

https://ask.naij.com/economics/causes-of-poverty-in-nigeria-i23669.html