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Login: Password: Forum | Make a Journal Enrty | View Journal Entries | Submit An Article | Make as StartPage Homepage Register Forgot password News Business Politics Sport City Diary Features Special Report Behind The News Art & Review Editorial Comment Letters Right Of Reply e-Business Law & Judiciary REAL ESTATE Education Development THISDAY Extra THISDAY Saturday THISDAY Sunday ARCHIVE     LINKS City Guides Hotels Business Exhibition Business Services Nigerian.TV Capital Markets Shops Domains WEB HOSTING Family Trees E-Africa.info E-Nigeria.net FlightsSearch.net MailingBox.net Payments   ThisDay question Should the National Electricity Power Authority be privatized? Yes No Indifferent View results Latinwo Urges FG to Tackle Poverty From Tunde Sanni in Ilorin, 12.05.2004 Kwara Former military Governor of Kwara State, Salaudeen Bola Latinwo, has taken a look at the nation's five years of democratic rule and posted a not too cheering balance sheet, tasking Federal Government to address the growing rate of poverty in the country. The former military governor noted that Nigerians had not fared better, citing increasing rate of poverty in the country and other poor economic indices which the former governor said had turned altered the hope of Nigerians for a better nationhood under democracy. According to him, most of the economic reforms being embarked upon by government were being dictated by international organisations such as International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and Paris Club. Latinwo, who spoke with newsmen in Ilorin attempted an economic comparison between Nigeria during and after military systems, maintained that the standard of living has dropped drastically under democracy than under military rule. His words: "If you look back say to about 15 or 20years ago, with due respect, you would see that the quality of life is reducing. An average Nigerian is now living on one dollar per day, compare to the same people that presumably were living on three or four dollars per day 10 years ago. This is very bad. "And when you go down the town, you see a lot of people who cannot afford one square meal in a day. So there is poverty in the land and when you have poverty, it is part of hunger and when you have hunger, people become angry and when they are angry, they are desperate, and when they are desperate, they can do anything and that is what we are witnessing today across the country."         REMAIN INFORMED WE SEND IT TO YOUR MAIL THISDAY NEWSLETTER Name E-Mail   Who We Are | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000-2004 Leaders & Company Limited This Site Created by White Pages Limited

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