British Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged a package of 12 billion pounds in foreign aid for developments in the third world countries including Nigeria. But here is what I see as a hiccup and disturbing.
According to Trevor Tavanagh of the London Sun, the British Department of International Development gave Nigeria 171.5 million pounds to help improve education, as well as family planning and immunization services, they say could be a welcome relief in a country where the majority of the population still earn less than one pound a day.
As it goes, the lingering issue has been how much of this money was actually utilized for the purpose of the aid. It was also pointed out that Nigeria is one of the world's major oil suppliers, pumping out about 2.2 million barrels per day with a GDP of 256 billion pounds, ranking Nigeria the 30th largest in the world and 3rd in Africa.
Question here is, does Nigeria still need these kind of aids from around which funny books have been kept and projects the aids were meant for not carried out? And how could foreign aids be effected where widespread scandals of bribery and corruption have not been eradicated?
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