This is because, although the country is rich in land and natural and human resources, the people are still considered poor, as in 1999 almost 70% of Nigerians lived in poverty (FOS, 1999; Okojie, et al 2000; World Bank 2000; In 2000, per capita income was still at about the same level as in 1965, and, meanwhile, Nigeria's cumulative oil revenues (net of payments to foreign oil companies) amounted to about $350 billion at world prices. 1995 (Salai-Martin and Subramanian, 2003). Worse, Nigeria's poverty problems are multi-faceted, including the widespread AIDS epidemic, lack of access to good health facilities, lack of essential infrastructure, high infant mortality rate, unemployment and corruption, etc. In recent years, the Nigerian government has spent large sums of money at the state, federal and local levels in vain attempts to alleviate poverty by proposing and executing various poverty resolution programs. However, many of the people who are put in charge of such programs were
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