Management of Poverty and its Inherent Crises and Conflicts in Nigeria: The Role of the Church
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2011-07
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School of Arts and Social Sciences, Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria.
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One major challenge confronting Africa is the problem of poverty, coming to the Nigeria situation, the phenomenon of poverty is a pervasive one in spite of her great natural wealth, Nigeria is poor and social development is limited. Since the global economic downturn and the dwindling petro-dollar income, more than 70 percent of Nigeria live below the poverty line while some 35 percent wallow in abject poverty, in fact, real grinding poverty. In fact, Nigeria is represented as pitiably sitting in the bowels of poverty as the 154th of 172 countries in the world poverty marginal index. However, the government of Nigeria from federal 'to local level have since pre-occupied herself with programmes and strategies of alleviating poverty but we are yet to see any appreciable impact of all these programmes to which billions of naira is being spent. The church must collaborate with the government in its effort to manage poverty in our society, and this is the focus of this paper. Striving to improve the living conditions of the poor, and to save them from their plight is the best way of demonstrating the spirit of Christ.
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Poverty, poverty alleviation in Nigeria, Bribery and corruption, Roles of the Church in curbing poverty