The Nigeria of today has so many defects that tends to make it somewhat unsuitable for the numerous inhabitants.
Many Nigerians are not having the best of times.
A writer once said that everything in
Nigeria will kill you, here in this satirical piece are top 5 things
that are most likely to kill one in the Nigeria of today.
5. Malaria
As very trivial as this sounds, malaria
has continued to plague Nigeria, with statistics showing that it is the
cause of about 20 percent of the deaths recorded.
Many
within the rural areas of Nigeria still suffer from ncessant malaria
attacks due to unhealthy environs in which mosquitoes breed.
Many cannot afford to get well treated mosquito nets and supply to hospitals where they can get free are very insufficient.
4. Lower Respiratory Infections
Lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI)
applied to various infection including pneumonia, lung abscess and
acute bronchitis. Their symptoms include shortness of breath, weakness,
fever, coughing and fatigue. LRTI is said to be responsible for about 19
percent of the deaths recorded in Nigeria.
About 19 percent of deaths in Nigeria are caused by LRTI
3. Road Accident
It is so sad to say that in this
century, a nation as big as ours has a significant number of deaths
stemming from road accidents.
So many deaths recorded in Nigeria are from road accidents caused by bad roads.
So many Nigerians have seen their dreams
killed following fatal accidents on the various highways across the
country, bad roads have been fingered as number one cause of the
crashes.
2. Terrorism, insurgency and armed crimes
The renewal of hostilities within the
South-south has become a thing of grave concern for Nigeria, the
insurgency in the northeast still leaves its shadows stall the people.
In the southeast, there is steaming agitation and all these have lead to
numerous loss of lives.
So much has been lost and many have been killed in the war against terror in the northeast.
The herdsmen attacks are not left out
and the mayhem wrecked by bandits and gunmen is various areas of the
Southwest adds to the statistics. Many Nigerians have lost their lives
following the a wave of terrorism and insurgency that is sweeping across
the country.
Militancy
in the Niger Delta has turned the region into killing fields, with
groups clashing with the Nigerian army. Many innocents have been
reportedly caught up in the crossfire.
Nigerian troops are fighting hard to
restore peace in various troubled regions, however, so many lives are
being lost in this course.
1. Poverty
If poverty is truly a disease, then that
disease is really ravaging a great number of Africa’s largest nation. A
2015 report based on data collected on years between 2004 and 2014,
suggests that too many Nigerians are poor.
The United Nations’ Global
Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has three dimensions and 10
indicators in estimating overall poverty, each dimension is equally
weighted, each indicator within a dimension is also equally weighted,
and added.
It uses 10 indicators to measure poverty
in three dimensions: Education, Health and Living standards. According
to the MPI report, as at 2010, 46 percent of Nigerians lived below the
national poverty line (Only 28 percent in urban areas, and near 70
percent in the rural). Although a Report by the World bank, released in
2014, showed that only 33% of Nigerians could be considered poor.
Only recently, Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo stated that about 110 million Nigerians were still living below
poverty line despite the policies of past governments to improve their
welfare.
The Vice President however stated that
the policy were wrongly formulated and as a result did not have direct
impact on the people.
Poverty ranks first in top caused of
death within Nigeria, and the economic hardship being experienced at the
moment is about the worst the people have experienced.
If further broken down, one would
realized that things like an alarming rate of unemployment, incessant
cases of unpaid salaries and an ever increasing cost of living on all
sides, has led to many to death, some even having to take their own
lives.
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