By Dele Ogbodo
Aligning with the recent international poverty index survey that Nigeria has overtaken India in poverty index ratings
with 87 million people living below poverty level against India’s 73 million, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK), Mrs. Theresa May, has decried the alarming poverty index especially in the midst of abundant resources in Nigeria and other African countries.
The PM who is slated to visit Nigeria and Kenya SHARPEDGENEWSOnline learnt made the observation in Cape Town, South Africa, while on tour of that country, stressing the wide inequality in resources and wealth distribution among Nigerians.
With over 87 million Nigerians struggling to live above $2 per day she retorted that Nigeria is housing very poor people than any other nation in the world.
While advocating that the world should embrace free market and free trade as it is the greatest agent of collective human progress the world has ever known.
May, also lamented the disparity in the world economy especially in the emerging economies, adding that Africa is home to the world’s fragile states and a quarter of the world’s displaced persons.
According to her, Boko Haram and other extremist groups within the continent have rendered millions of African homeless and devastated.