High Poverty Rate In Nigeria Condemned

An entreaty has been made to the national authorities to redistribute wealthiness passim the state to destruct the existent precocious poorness rate.

A faith-based quality rights advocacy group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), made the appealed yesterday done its enforcement director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola.

MURIC lamented the increasing inclination of extended poorness among the moving people caused by alarmingly mediocre salaries amid abdominous and disproportionate remuneration for the governmental class.

“There is increasing restlessness among the Nigerian moving class. University lecturers nether the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) person threatened to strike.

“Similarly, nonmigratory doctors person fixed the authorities announcement of a strike. Similarly, infirmary nurses person conscionable resumed from a informing onslaught today, Monday, 15th September 2025.

“In the look of this gloomy socio-economic scenario, the Federal Government (FG) is reportedly considering an summation successful the net of politicians.

“Apart from an service of unemployed graduates, the information of the moving people successful Nigeria is pitiable.

The take-home wage of the proletariat cannot instrumentality him home.

Market prices, which deed the extortion implicit a twelvemonth ago, are present up successful the sky, aiming astatine Jupiter. The ostentation complaint was 21.88% arsenic of July 2025.

“There is wide hunger and starvation successful the country. The North is bleeding. The South is hardly surviving. Strangled and suffocated, the jamaahiir astatine the bottommost of the pyramid of poorness tin hardly breathe.

“While we admit the ongoing economical betterment launched by the FG, we telephone for contiguous reordering of our communal patrimony sharing pattern”.

According to MURIC, lone an equitable and proportionate readjustment of workers’ and politicians’ salaries tin stem the existent tide and bring astir socio-economic justice.

“We besides entreaty to FG to reconsider its effort to summation politicians’ wages when, already, a legislator allegedly earns a whopping N21 cardinal monthly compared to a professor’s meagre monthly wage of N633,333.

“This bittersweet improvement has caused encephalon drain successful the universities. Exempli gratia, 239 first-class lecturers near the University of Lagos (Unilag) successful the past 7 years implicit mediocre pay.”

“Medical doctors and nurses are leaving the state successful droves. At slightest 50 doctors permission Nigeria weekly. More than 15,000 nurses near Nigeria successful 2024 alone.”