in not more than 600 words write an easy on the topic. tolerance and good governance is the panacea to Nigeria socio, political and economic problems.
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Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa and is blessed with a lot of mineral resources; in-fact is
the 8
th oil producing state in the world. But unfortunately the country is in crises ranging from Boko Haram
crises, Niger Delta Militancy, prostitution, armed robbery, kidnapping and bomb blast due to lack of good
governance. A country without sincere leader is always doomed to exploitation, stagnation, chaos and state of
anarchy. The quality of life in Nigeria is dependent upon the quality and efficiency of its leaders. For country to
develop, it need obedient and hard working leadership that has high degree for tenants like honesty and
patriotism. The problem of leader in Nigeria is that it is dominated by people who brainwash their followers,
siphoned public funds which will help in development of the country maintain many bank accounts in several
part of the world living the masses in penury.
The federal office of statistics (2012) reports that more than 100million Nigerians live in abject
poverty earning less than S1 US per day. With over 20 million unemployed youth and security threat to the
country. The country is experiencing low level of institution and administrative bodies, few people are rich and
majority poor, In a country where almost all the institutions of the state are performing below expectation of the
masses, no access to good drinking water, unemployment and crimes ranging from bomb blast, kidnapping and
armed robbery are the order of the day.Muazu (2011) attributed the problems of crises in Nigeria to illiteracy
and poverty which led to bomb last and kidnapping in many part of Nigeria and failure of interligent. The
northern Nigeria has the highest incidence of poverty, there is tendency of the region not to meet millennium
development goals of reducing poverty by 2015, with current population of 168million the children of the poor
likely to become poor due to widening gap in access to the following:-
Unemployment rate is very high with likely hood of becoming third country in the world in term of
rural –urban migration, Some of the incidence could be attributed to the household size, Single member
household has 12.6% poverty incidence, 2-4 member household has39.3%, 5-9 member household has 57.9%
10-20 member household has 75% and 20 member household has 90.7%.
Quality education: education is the only means of liberating populace from squalor, ignorant and
poverty. Statistics has shown that 9 million children are out of school and majority of them are from northern