A shocking report about how hardship drives some Nigerians to look for food in garbage, appeared on the front cover of the Vanguard Newspaper of Friday, January 17, 2025.
To many Nigerians, the said report was almost unbelievable. How can a nation so endowed with human and material resources degenerate to this level?
Experts have reportedly described the situation as “a national emergency with devastating consequences.” They have also warned of the dire consequences the situation portends for the health of the citizens especially, children.
For sociologists, this kind of hardship that drives citizens into scavenging for left overs in garbage, mostly in market places, strips citizens of their dignity.
No matter how the present administration in the country tries to convince Nigerians to accept its policies (or reforms as they call it), it is becoming increasingly obvious that the much-hyped reforms have not been able to quell the prevailing excruciating hardship pushing citizens to the brink.
And just as Nigeria Newspoint had previously suggested, President Bola Tinubu-led
federal government should as a matter of urgency, reconsider its position on subsidy, a major factor widely believed to have finally brought the country’s decade-long wobbling economy to its knees.
Who says petrol cannot come back to N300 a liter if subsidy returns in the meantime atleast, pending when both state-owned and private refineries will compete in supplying energy to the entire nation.
The president ought to have realised by now, that his administration’s deployment of palliative measures in an effort to cushion the harsh effects of the subsidy removal action, has apparently fallen short of the expectations of Nigerians.