Nigeria as a country has 70 percent of its residents living in Poverty with 50 percent living in Extreme Poverty ( making less than 1.90 per day)
What you see about Nigerians on TV are the wealthiest and most educated of the bunch. This would be the equivalent of me showing you how the black Americans in Woodmore Maryland, Ladera Heights, Hillcrest NY and the upper middle class suburb of Atlanta lives and saying that’s how most African Americans live.
i agree with this overall, but that "making less than $1.90 a day" statistic doesnt give a realistic picture
what is really going on is that there is a lot of poverty in the northern part of nigeria
a huge amount
in the south there is a mix of rich people, not rich but not so poor, and poor people, but its more spread out or balanced
it isn't just one picture of hopeless poverty everywhere with only a handful of rich people
whereas in the north its just poverty upon poverty upon poverty with only a small handful of rich people
the people that the OP met are from the south
most of the the south is not doing so badly except for that part of the niger delta where oil pollution has affected people's livelihood
and the south would be doing better if it were not basically paying for the northern part of the country to have what little development it does have
basically the crushing poverty in the north of the country is skewing those statistics you're citing;
the statistics you cite are true but they aren't a representation of the population that the people that the OP is coming into contact with are really from, since the people he is talking about are all from the south
nikka came in with a machete for no reason
