Inside Nigeria’s Poverty Factory!

 By Gbenro Olajuyigbe

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice – Nelson Mandela

Poverty and inequality are bombs, detonated by bad governance; they shatter the worth of human dignity, diminish standard of living, enable economic and social injustices and unevadeably trigger social crisis that could reconstruct civilization that returns people to the dark age, with inch, not better than the Orwellian Animal Farm. In the words of Nelson Mandela at the London’s Trafalgar Square in 2005; “Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.”

Tinubonomic And 8000 Litres Of Poverty

 By Gbenro Olajuyigbe

In intervention during emergencies, there is what is called Appropriate Response. Impact of inappropriate response is worse than no response. Responding to the ‘needs’ of 12 million households’ out of 43 million households in a severely polarized country is bad enough. 

*Bola Tinubu 

Aside from the existing inequality between the poor and the rich, it further bifurcates the tribe of the poor, potentially with implications for uneven patriotism and implosive crisis.  Giving the selected beneficiary (270 Naira/ 35 Cents per day) in situation where those who earn 1.9 dollar per day are regarded as living in extreme poverty amounts to glorification of poverty. 5000 Naira per poor household under Buhari, which had more intrinsic value than the touted Tinubu’s 8000 Naira, threw 133 million people into nadir of poverty.

Nigeria: Sixty Years Old Empire Of Vampires

 By Gbenro Olajuyigbe

Kings of empires were historically imperial, feudal lords. They were fearfully revered. They could decide to take their baths with bucketful of another person’s blood if they wanted.

They were the law, the empires and the emperors – trinity of terror! To drive home the omnipotence of their cruelty, one of the wives of the Alafin in the Old Oyo Empire, due to familiarity, tested the potency of such power. She playfully ridiculed the king while naked by saying ‘ I don’t know why people fear  a man with small organ like you?’ Alafin responded, ‘you don’t know?”.