{"id":740663,"date":"2019-11-08T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/08\/6-nigerians-enter-extreme-poverty-per-minute-reno-omokri\/"},"modified":"2019-11-08T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:09:27","slug":"6-nigerians-enter-extreme-poverty-per-minute-reno-omokri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/08\/6-nigerians-enter-extreme-poverty-per-minute-reno-omokri\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Nigerians Enter Extreme Poverty Per Minute: Reno Omokri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Popular social media activist, Reno Omokri has sparked a debate on social media as he declared that six Nigerians become extremely poor every minute.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_714462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-714462\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-714462\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Reno-book-signing-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"Reno Omokri\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-714462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nigerian author, Reno Omokri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The popular critic made this statement while lamenting about the continued growth of Nigeria\u2019s population and decline of the educational sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Our Roads Are Worse Than They Are Portrayed: Reno Omokri Tells Fashola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The critic expressed that a lot of Nigerians are entering into extreme poverty due to the failure of the current administration to focus on education.<\/p>\n<p>He also attested that development of the educational sector in India has been the underlying factor for the development of the Asian nation.<\/p>\n<p>See his tweet below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Since 2015, Nigeria\u2019s population has increased by 9%. Yet, our 2020 education budget of \u20a648 B is just 9% of the \u20a6492 B we budgeted for education in 2015. It\u2019s the reason 44 people escape extreme poverty in India per minute, while 6 enter it in Nigeria each minute <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TableShaker?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">#TableShaker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/renoomokri\/status\/1192753968172208128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">November 8, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular social media activist, Reno Omokri has sparked a debate on social media as he declared that six Nigerians become extremely poor every minute. 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Also Read:\u00a0Our Roads Are Worse Than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":721675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>6 Nigerians Enter Extreme Poverty Per Minute: Reno Omokri - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/08\/6-nigerians-enter-extreme-poverty-per-minute-reno-omokri\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"6 Nigerians Enter Extreme Poverty Per Minute: Reno Omokri - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Popular social media activist, Reno Omokri has sparked a debate on social media as he declared that six Nigerians become extremely poor every minute. 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