Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is rich in human and other resources. But those resources seem to go to the top one percent of the population, especially well connected politicians.
They crisscross the planet on private jets and send their children to the most expensive schools on the planet while the rest of Nigerians are stuck in squalor and hopelessness.
Aisha Buhari, Nigeria’s First Lady, and her children
They jet out frequently for the best medical care around the world while Nigerians are made to pay with their lives in ill-equipped hospitals.
President Muhammadu Buhari recently returned from London on a private visit. He’s in Egypt today after Saudi Arabia and a cornucopia of other places.
Muhammadu Sanusi II, born Sanusi Lamido Sanusi 31 July 1961, the 14th Emir of Kano, was the former Central Bank Governor of Nigeria, here with his son
So, they fly, they enjoy, their children fly and enjoy, while the rest of Nigerians suffer daily without food, water or electricity.
Pictures are better than words. This is Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, with oil and gas and wealth all over the place, but with also poverty, hunger and anger all around.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, wife and kid
In the end, while rich Nigerians crisscross the world in jets, others, we the others, have nothing, nothing, nothing to live or hope for, except God.
But God is the majority. God can turn dilapidated schools into serious and beautiful places of learning.
Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, wife and and son
May the other 99 percent of Nigerians one day be able to go to proper schools and good hospitals. With a good government, one day, they will.
Former Governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha, wife and daughter
El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State with child
Nigerian Minister, Rotimi Amaechi with child
Bukola Saraki, former Senate President, wife and son
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