CORRUPTION ENDANGERING NIGERIA DEVELOPMENT AS 62% NIGERIANS LIVING IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY.. PROF. KAREEM
CORRUPTION ENDANGERING NIGERIA DEVELOPMENT AS 62% NIGERIANS LIVING IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY.. PROF. KAREEM Corruption has been identify to be the major impediment to Nigeria economic development as 62 percent of Nigerians still live in abject or multidimensional poverty. Professor of Resource and Development Economics in the depatment of Economics and Actuarial Sciences, College of Arts, Social and Management Sciences (CASMAS) who also double as the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Crescent University, Abeokuta, Prof. Rasaki Olufemi Kareem made this known during the first inaugural lecture of the University with the theme"Resource Efficiency vs Economic Development: Whither Nigeria" He said Nigerian problem is not about resources but how those resources are being put to use for the benefits and welfare of the citizen, pointing out that about 133 to 144 million Nigerians are living in multidimensional poverty, highlighting the poverty rate percentage from 46 percent i...