Addressing Nigeria's Challenges
The next Nigerian Presidential election is slated for 2023 – Regardless of if you believe the center will or will not hold there will be some type of Government – *What ideas can we start developing now to address the following issues for the next Government at any level:*
1 *Security: Is it the Security Architecture or ther operators of the Architecture and what is the way forward?*
Initial Reference:
Buratai Withdraws Top Army Officers From The Office Of The National Security Adviser
Feb 7, 2020 10:53 AM
2 *Poverty: According to the World Economic Forum Almost six people in Nigeria fall into this trap every minute.* as noted in WEF article below.
Initial Reference:
Three things Nigeria must do to end extreme poverty
About 90 million people - roughly half Nigeria's population - live in extreme poverty, according to estimates from the World Data Lab's Poverty Clock. Around June 2018, Nigeria overtook India, a country with seven times its population, at the bottom of the table. Put in another context, if poor Nigerians were a country it would be more populous than Germany. Almost six people in Nigeria fall into this trap every minute.
3 *Education*: Some of look us back at events that occurred 10 years ago as if it was just a few weeks ago – time moves quickly. *Given that about 10.5 million of the country’s children aged 5-14 years are not in school we must ask what will become of them in 10 years when they are teenagers? What must we do to mitigate this?*
Initial Reference:
UNICEF:
Even though primary education is officially free and compulsory, about 10.5 million of the country’s children aged 5-14 years are not in school. Only 61 percent of 6-11 year-olds regularly attend primary school and only 35.6 percent of children aged 36-59 months receive early childhood education.
https://www.unicef.org/nigeria/education
BBC:
Why Nigeria's educational system is in crisis - and how to fix it
We need data/ fact driven national conversations on these and related critical issues – Let us move far beyond rumours, incitement and blame games towards articulating robust, implementable and realistic solution paths.
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