A governor is able to own a six-thousand square foot home fully equipped with multiple security guards, a swimming pool, and far more rooms than needed. Meanwhile, in a neighboring town just miles away is poverty stricken land where someone calls home. It is surrounded by trash, with little food to eat, as the stench of sewage from the city coats the air. This scenario is foreign to people living in the United States. That is simply because this is a problem prevalent to ones living in Nigeria, West Africa. For decades, Nigeria has been infamously known for the non-progressive gap between the categorization of who is considered to be either wealthy or who is labeled as impoverished. It is a country filled with an abundance of resources, and …show more content…
Nigeria’s total population currently stands at over one hundred seventy three million people. With a population so excessively high, it is nearly impossible to reach out to each and every person that may be struggling financial. Problems such as this have not only risen in Africa. For more than three decades, China had enforced that every married couple must only have one child per family due to overpopulation. Although, China does have many exceptions to this rule including economic status and disabilities within the family, it was strictly enforced for nearly thirty years. Overpopulation Nigeria is one of the many countries that does not follow the western world way of government funded financial aid, it is because of this that many Nigerians may feel a sense of hopelessness when put in an unsettling situation involving money. With such a high population in Sub-Saharan Africa, “the proportion of Africans living on less than one dollar per day” has hardly any chances of decreasing any time …show more content…
Nigeria’s economy is one of the largest in all of Africa, “ironically, the country also [has] some of the poorest people in the world with as many as sixty-nine percent of the population living below the poverty line” (_________). This quote gives insight into how corruption has aided in the destroying of the country. In Nigeria, there is no accountability for the government when the people behind it do wrong. The main role of the government is to protect all people of a region; unfortunately Nigeria’s government leaders have not been doing so in the recent years. The leaders of the Nigerian government including the president, have repeatedly made public statements against accusations of a need for solutions to the problems surrounding
The idea that the successful health and health care organizations of the future will be those that can simultaneously deliver excellent quality of care, at lower total costs, while improving the health of their population is taking hold. The main reason is because of health disparities. Addressing health disparities has been a challenge for decades. This paper will look at a few examples of how health disparities can affect individually, thus the overall health of a population.
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Despite the numerous wealth generated on a daily basis from oil exportation over the years and the vast amount of untapped resources laying in commercial quantity, the country does not have a single or recognize means of directly addressing the welfare of its citizenry. Only the present democratic administration has promised to execute out a compulsory cash transfer of N5,000 to the poorest 25 million Nigeria (based on some conditions), pay graduating corp members some stipends for a year and design a one-meal a day for public primary school
According to Reutter, Veenstra, Stewart, Raphael, Love, Makwarimba, and McMurray (2005 p. 518), “Affordable housing was deemed especially difficult to obtain by 96%, but other resources (obtaining healthy food, giving children a good start in life, and engaging in healthy behaviours) were also viewed as challenging by at least 70% of respondents.”. Poverty has now become of the biggest issues in the world, with devastating effects on life opportunities, more severe in third world countries than first world, but still heavily present in both. Each place has its own unique causes such as personal/familial (Rank, 2001), local/environmental (Murry, Berkel, Gaylord-Harden, Linder, & Nation, 2011) and national/systemic (Ferriss, 2006). Some of the effects are mental health (Kuruvilla, & Jacob, 2007), lifestyle (Reutter, et al, 2005), employment (Rank, 2001), and education (Pagani, Boulerice, Vitaro, & Tremblay, 1999). However, there are always solutions such as policies (Duncan, & Brooks-Gunn, 2000) and financial backing from the government, such as the child defence fund (Sharpe, 1996).
Adding to issue was the need to improve the lives of the Ogoni people by giving them jobs, an education, and cleaning up the region. Although “oil deposits in Nigeria’s Niger Delta generate 80 percent of current government revenues” (Weeks 599), “oil revenues have improved the lives of few Nigerians: Some 70 percent of the country’s 155 million citizens live in poverty, two-thirds lack access to basic sanitation and life expectancy is less than 48 years” (Weeks 600). The final proposal that promised education and job training for all people in the region from Shell and the government was hopeful in that the Ogoni would now have a form of income, and it would be a start to helping them get out of poverty. “Payments toward the Ogoni people will
...rd but in the sense of Nigeria the corruption is amongst the elites and found at the highest level of federal power.
... Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, 8(3), 77-88. Retrieved September 22, 2011, from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 2349548361).
Based on the major findings of this study, the following suggestions are hereby put forwards for consideration:
What is culture? Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving
Many unsolved problems in many African countries, but the issue of the rise of corruption are disturbing, and the amends it has done to the polity are vast. The fear of fraud leads to restrict movement of documents in offices, slow traffic on the highways, port congestion, ghost workers syndrome, queues at passport offices, police extortion tollgates and gas stations, vote irregularities among others. Even the nutty people on the road remember the devastation caused by bribery - the funds allocated for their success disappear into some people pockets. Thus, some people believe corruption is the bane of many African countries. Corruption is the main obstacle to slow down, and knock African economy growing. The problem keeps happening in Africa, and the issue will hardly be solved.
Since the beginning of mankind, we have reached many great achievements. We have developed many technologies and theories to solve and explain many of our questions and to improve human life. Through our years of evolution, we have severely increased our own survivability. This has been a great achievement for us, but in the recent decade, overpopulation is becoming a great issue. In the recent years, the rapid increase in population growth has troubled many in the field of political sciences. Scientists like Ehrlich have calculated and expected our population to grow even faster if we do not act upon the increasing rate of population growth. The birth rate of our planet is increasing exponentially, meaning that the birth rate has surpassed the death rate and that the rate of growth will only increase if left alone. The politics of population is a debate that involves both the fields of sciences and moral and ethical considerations. Science may provide an insight of
Seven and a half billion. Enough steps to walk around the globe a hundred and sixty times. Our planet is trying to provide and sustain for a colossal number of people which is expanding every single second. Now the concern that has been put forth by scholars come from the idea that the consumption and effects to our planet by our current society is an international security risk that greatly compromises the future generations. Confucius even mentions this at the earliest start of civilization by saying:
Overpopulation is a growing problem all over the world. This is a very important environmental issue and needs to be dealt with. This environmental problem is affecting many countries in the world, but mostly the poor and impoverished countries that don’t have the resources to help deal with these issues. It also affects the environment like plants animal life and air quality. When the population of people expands we need more natural resources from the environment, so we consume more then we can produce. This leads to the lack of resources in many areas. When expanding we create a lot of pollution in the air, water, and land. The pollution affects many humans health. Overpopulation is doing more harm than any other environmental issue. Overpopulation also causes many of the other issues we are dealing with. This is very dangerous to not only us humans but the planet. Even though many wealthy countries are not affected by this overpopulation, I feel like they should help the cause. There is always two sides to an issue like this. Some people don’t think that overpopulation is a big problem and the ones who say it is an issue that needs to be dealt with.
According to the Ghana Poverty Mapping report (2015), the three northern regions of Ghana are the poorest in Ghana with the highest concentration of poor people in the north-western part of the country. They have experienced tremendous improvements over the past years due to several aid initiatives introduced by the government, NGOs and other international agencies to the area. (The National Poverty map can be seen at appendix 4, figure
In conclusion, the writer exposes us to how corruption had eaten into the daily activities of the Nigerian society and had become a norm which no one really paid attention to since it was usually done by everyone. Also he makes clear of how one is forced to accept bribe in Nigeria by using Obi as an example. He shows us how some people are made to accept bribe under very difficult situations.