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salbis:
If living below $1.90 a day is considered poor, more than 70% of Nigerian populace would be considered to be poor.

Living below $1.90 cannot be used as a standard because that's relative to where you reside. For someone who lives in the village, and is a farmers, he may not be seeing those cash on daily basis but net worth is more than that by the time he harvests and does the tabulation. And he doesn't starve. A large portion of Nigerians are farmers. So, that $1.90 can only be used to judge those who live in the town. As for me that spends most of my time in my village, how often do I need to buy anything? Is it not when I need something and I cannot afford it, that I say I am poor?

pfadom:
This Peter Obi uses both accurate and inaccurate statements to discredit Nigeria to be politically correct even when it is glaring he is wrong.

Stop being intentionally myopic. Comparatively, the rate of poverty in Nigeria is way higher than what it is in India. India has an estimated population of 1.3 billion people with just less than 10% (100 million plus) living below the poverty line while Nigeria with a population of 200 million has over 40% (above 90 million) living on extreme poverty. Do the maths yourself and stop sounding stupid for sentimental or partisan reasons. Nigeria is on a very steep precipice and with people like yourself who will rather play the Ostrich than call out failure for what it is, it only a matter of time before the country is consumed by its failures. Cheers!

Keep deceiving yourself. Have you been to India or have interaction with Indians? I have first hand information on poverty in India. Many school leavers are jobless and Indians are leaving for greener pastures in millions.

I am apolitical. You are entitled to your myopic opinion. Good luck.

Bamibor:


Stop being intentionally myopic. Comparatively, the rate of poverty in Nigeria is way higher than what it is in India. India has an estimated population of 1.3 billion people with just less than 10% (100 million plus) living below the poverty line while Nigeria with a population of 200 million has over 40% (above 90 million) living on extreme poverty. Do the maths yourself and stop sounding stupid for sentimental or partisan reasons. Nigeria is on a very steep precipice and with people like yourself who will rather play the Ostrich than call out failure for what it is, it only a matter of time before the country is consumed by its failures. Cheers!

chumada:
yes, I serviced in the North and tour almost all the northern States due to the nature of my job.... The rate of poor people is high... South west own is worst seeing a healthy thug begging for small money makes me wonder if they're mentally OK

I won't reply any mention

Oga, what exactly did you SERVICE in the north?

Your comment is full of confusions. The figure you quoted about India is quite unfortunate. India is over 1bn in population. Nigeria is officially 200m in population. Poverty percentage in the 2 countries are 10% in India and almost 50% in Nigeria, given the declared population of each country.

chumada:
yes, I serviced in the North and tour almost all the northern States due to the nature of my job.... The rate of poor people is high... South west own is worst seeing a healthy thug begging for small money makes me wonder if they're mentally OK

I won't reply any mention

Yea, South west is truly worse than the north on poverty, south south and south east. I can see how people are picking food from dustbin and lots of south west doing maiguard and gatemen in the north and other parts of the country. People aren't coming to south west, including lagos for greener pasture because there are no industries or opportunities there at all. The movie industry is also located in maiduguri. Most of tech firms and young entrepreneurs in Nigeria are located in Asaba and Nnewi . See your mouth.

Isinkwocha:
How on earth does India, which has over 1.2 billion people in their enclave for only 100 million people in extreme poverty while Nigeria with only just under 200 million people having over 90 million people in abject poverty line?
And you’re here doing fact checking. Otolo gbagbukwe gi there. Thes kind of mod are the reason why SW and Edo are now crying out of Fulani menace. People that will sow a scarecrow cloth and portray as a human. This is a vile and evil write up with an intent to reduce to nothing the dire situation of bad governance and societal menace we face as a nation. Must we chase shadows and leave the substance of which Peter Obi’s message was all about?
Be guided Nigerians lest this lion we feed turns around one day and take us for a meal

Peter Obi just lied and he was busted. Simple

Isinkwocha:
Another Afo warrior write up

Tell your Peter Obi to stop lying. Facts checking are done everywhere even in U.S

bluefilm:


Oga, what exactly did you SERVICE in the north?

lol, I serviced you

When was the last time you were there?

pfadom:
Keep deceiving yourself. Have you been to India or have interaction with Indians? I have first hand information on poverty in India. Many school leavers are jobless and Indians are leaving for greener pastures in millions.

I am apolitical. You are entitled to your myopic opinion. Good luck.

Please explain how Nigeria had 15Million people lifted from extreme poverty from November 2020 to February 2021, a period of 3 months.

Judging by population, Obi is absolutely right!

chumada:

lol, I serviced you

God forbid

chumada:
yes, I served in the North and tour almost all the northern States due to the nature of my job.... The rate of poor people is high... South west own is worst seeing a healthy thug begging for small money makes me wonder if they're mentally OK

I won't reply any mention

I love tourist job.... what kind of job was that precisely?

potbelly:
even if Peter Obi was wrong by saying we are number 1 on that list, it does not change the fact that Nigeria is one of the poverty capitals of the world...

You are very right. Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world.

Whoever wrote that piece is despicably stupid.

Because, the population of India is over 900million people, so if 100million of them live below the poverty line, it is just a tiny percentage of the country that experiences poverty. About 1/10 or 1/9. Again, the Corona Virus pandemic exacerbated poverty in India in 2020 after the lockdowns. India's poverty population was about 57million people before the lockdowns.

In the case of Nigeria where the population is estimated at 200m people and about 100m are living below poverty line, it means about 1/2 or one out of every two Nigerians is extremely poor. This is even a very fair statistics. Over 50% of nigerians are poor while it's about 10% of Indians.

Isinkwocha:
How on earth does India, which has over 1.2 billion people in their enclave for only 100 million people in extreme poverty while Nigeria with only just under 200 million people having over 90 million people in abject poverty line?
And you’re here doing fact checking. Otolo gbagbukwe gi there. Thes kind of mod are the reason why SW and Edo are now crying out of Fulani menace. People that will sow a scarecrow cloth and portray as a human. This is a vile and evil write up with an intent to reduce to nothing the dire situation of bad governance and societal menace we face as a nation. Must we chase shadows and leave the substance of which Peter Obi’s message was all about?
Be guided Nigerians lest this lion we feed turns around one day and take us for a meal

Beautiful! I was just reading thru comments to find out if anyone could spot this. The imp didn't factor in the population of both countries before running to press!

salbis:
If living below $1.90 a day is considered poor, more than 70% of Nigerian populace would be considered to be poor.

Thank you.

Well said.

How many people earn N1,000 everyday, asking shop owners ?

Isinkwocha:
How on earth does India, which has over 1.2 billion people in their enclave for only 100 million people in extreme poverty while Nigeria with only just under 200 million people having over 90 million people in abject poverty line?
And you’re here doing fact checking. Otolo gbagbukwe gi there. Thes kind of mod are the reason why SW and Edo are now crying out of Fulani menace. People that will sow a scarecrow cloth and portray as a human. This is a vile and evil write up with an intent to reduce to nothing the dire situation of bad governance and societal menace we face as a nation. Must we chase shadows and leave the substance of which Peter Obi’s message was all about?
Be guided Nigerians lest this lion we feed turns around one day and take us for a meal

Well said.

Any comparison that is not done in relation to population size is useless.

Jack005:
Nonsense write up by an paid apc urchin... I can bet my left balls that the poverty level in Nigeria is way higher than India even with the population of India.. Nigeria is a cursed enclaved shit hole.

Don't mind him. By percentage, Nigeria is far worse than any country of the world. Close to 50% of our population is living under poverty while India, China that he was trying to compare has less than 10% and 3% respectively.

The population of people living under the index of poverty in China and India are greater in number than the entire population of Nigeria.

Bamibor:


Stop being intentionally myopic. Comparatively, the rate of poverty in Nigeria is way higher than what it is in India. India has an estimated population of 1.3 billion people with just less than 10% (100 million plus) living below the poverty line while Nigeria with a population of 200 million has over 40% (above 90 million) living on extreme poverty. Do the maths yourself and stop sounding stupid for sentimental or partisan reasons. Nigeria is on a very steep precipice and with people like yourself who will rather play the Ostrich than call out failure for what it is, it only a matter of time before the country is consumed by its failures. Cheers!

Who vetted this indices in the above statement to certify them as accurate. Very large population of China and India are swimming in abject poverty. Given what the China and India have in of technological advancement, it is foolhardy to stray into such comparison. China and India have been given more by technologically advanced countries than Nigeria.

globemoney:


https://guardian.ng/news/fact-check-does-nigeria-have-more-people-living-in-extreme-poverty-than-india-and-china-combined/

Your analysis is not complete

If India and China has a combined population of over 2b and the extreme poverty is 200m people... While Nigeria, with a population of 200m has 50 percent in poverty class then we have more poor people in reality when compared to our population than the two nations combined

globemoney:


https://guardian.ng/news/fact-check-does-nigeria-have-more-people-living-in-extreme-poverty-than-india-and-china-combined/

Comparatively, do your maths very well by using the principle of ratio or percentage as it relates to the total population per country. you will discover that Nigeria flop Wella. Oga Peter is over right.

Dedetwo:


Who vetted this indices in the above statement to certify them as accurate. Very large population of China and India are swimming in abject poverty. Given what the China and India have in of technological advancement, it is foolhardy to stray into such comparison. China and India have been given more by technologically advanced countries than Nigeria.

Assumption is the lowest form of knowledge... Statistical has been presented, if you disagree present another data feeling the world how you arrive at it

chumada:
yes, I served in the North and tour almost all the northern States due to the nature of my job.... The rate of poor people is high... South west own is worst seeing a healthy thug begging for small money makes me wonder if they're mentally OK

I won't reply any mention

At least Southwest is better than ur region, and u can go to hell with ur useless opinion

Nodogragra4me:




[s]Your analysis is not complete

If India and China has a combined population of over 2b and the extreme poverty is 200m people... While Nigeria, with a population of 200m has 50 percent in poverty class then we have more poor people in reality when compared to our population than the two nations combined[/s]

Go back and read till the end

archangel1:




Comparatively, do your maths very well by using the principle of ratio or percentage as it relates to the total population per country. you will discover that Nigeria flop Wella. Oga Peter is over right.

You and peter are very wrong, go back and read carefully from beginning to end

Crap!

India's population is about 2 billion, Nigeria is about 220 million

100 million of 2 billion is about 5%

90 million + of 220 million is about 40%

So do your math.. 5% to 40%

globemoney:


https://guardian.ng/news/fact-check-does-nigeria-have-more-people-living-in-extreme-poverty-than-india-and-china-combined/

I dont talk fairy tails or opinion.

Great powers comes and goes, If they learn from their downfall they rise again, same is happening with India and China
Even Europe cant be compared with India and China
As world`s ancient civilizations both India and China were more rich, More Powerful, More Innovative then entire Europe.
India and China both had 82% of entire worlds GDP.
For Chinese and Indians the Education, Entrepreneurship, Industrial mindset is with them for 5000 years when Europe was living in caves.

Chinese were doing research on Explosive chemicals during Ming Times.
India was the birthplace of Trigonometry, Complex mathematics (Vedic).
Number system that we use in today's world was developed by Indians and same knowledge ed to Spain(ie. Europe) by Arab traders.

We are not fortunate and focused like them, Since when we have started studying mathematics and science in this continent?? from 70s. so where is the comparison?
If we can make a good schooling available to public and good hospitals in next 30 years then we are successful. Lets focus on ourselves but yes as long as Religion exist, there is almost no hope for us.
And no, Not very large population is living in poverty , they are eliminating poverty at astonishing speed, that we cant imagine, while here it is on rise.

This continent has very long journey to go, Nothing shame in accepting that our countries are shithole of this planet.

Dedetwo:


Who vetted this indices in the above statement to certify them as accurate. Very large population of China and India are swimming in abject poverty. Given what the China and India have in of technological advancement, it is foolhardy to stray into such comparison. China and India have been given more by technologically advanced countries than Nigeria.