effect of poverty in nigeria
Study has unveiled that poverty has increased in Nigeria, with about 100 million people living on less than a $1 (Â£0.63) a day, after all Nigeria experiences significant economic growth. (BBC News Africa, 2012) The effects of poverty in Nigeria include: high death rate, increased crime rate and illiteracy. Firstly, due to poverty, Nigerians experience a high death rate. Death rate is a measure of the total demise in a populace, scaled to the span of that populace, for every unit of time.