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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Carnage And Poverty As National Tragedies

By Sufuyan Ojeifo
Two existential issues – security and poverty- that bear great relevance to the assessment of performance of governments globally reared their heads back-to-back, last week, in NigeriaBoth issues were so tangible that they could not escape essential appraisal and indictment.

While the carnage in Bakin Ladi local government area of Plateau State on June 23, 2018 was so self-evident such that it could not be denied by the Federal Government, the Brookings report that Nigeria has overtaken India as the global poverty capital has been rebutted by government through the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah.