The police made spirited effort at explaining away the fact that the woman was an armed robber. A young man was shot dead by policeman in front a bank in Benin City for engaging in a brawl in front of the bank . this incident took place in January . In the same month of January a young man was shot dead in Lagos by policemen under unexplained circumstances. Some commercial drivers have been victims of either police shootings or other forms of brutality for their refusal to part with their money illegally “usual toll”. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MDGs Following from the United Nations Millennium Declaration which was adopted at the Millennium summit held in New York, September th . th, , Nigeria committed herself to realizing the Millennium Development Goals MDGs by . These goals were
http://www.monsterbeatss.com/Studio-High-Definition-Powered-Isolation-Headphones(White)-p23.html targets for making measurable improvements in the lives of the world’s poorest citizens. Goal I: Eradicate Extreme poverty and Hunger Poverty still stares millions of Nigerians in the face. The degree of hunger manifests clearly at burial, wedding and other social events where free food and drinks are served lavishly by a select few. In such gatherings, several uninvited guests scramble for food. Worse still, are the milling teenagers who anxiously wait for those properly served, to leave the remnants for them to either eat or carry away. Many of our young people have now become scavengers in the midst of supposed plenty. According to Bolatito , poverty
http://www.monsterbeatss.com exists where people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs. These may be defined in a restricted sense as those needs necessary for survival, or broadly those needs reflecting the prevailing standard of living in the community. Poverty describes a situation where peoples resources material, social and cultural as so limited as to exclude such people from the minimum acceptable way of life. Poverty is multifaceted Bolatito . it includes poor access to public services and infrastructure, unsanitary environment, illiteracy and ignorance, poor health, insecurity, voicelessness and social exclusion, including low levels of household income and food insecurity. Between the period to , the proportion of poor people rose from .. in to .. in . This, in terms of numbers translates to . million poor people in
http://www.monsterbeatss.com and . million people in . It is estimated that by , between . million and . million people would still be living in poverty in Nigeria. According to African Forum and Network on Debt and Development AFRODAD , Nigeria with an annual per capita income of barely $, is one of the poorest countries in the world. It is estimated that Nigeria grows at about . and the national savings rate is about .. In the midst of other daunting challenges of infrastructural decay and corruption, how can Nigeria attain the Millennium goal number one Since independence, Nigeria has steadily fallen into the group of countries with a low level of human development, as characterized by an HDI coefficient of less than . on a scale of . With a score of ., Nigeria occupies a lowly th position, where countries like Eritrea and Senegal fare better. This is a very big shame indeed. How can it be said that Benin Republic and Rwanda are higher up the ladder than Nigeria in GDP per capita.
