Oizee:
■ I'm not even making reference to the present married folks, I'm talking about the victims(children's) of old folks.
For instance I know a guy who is a chronic hustler but, his father keeps bringing the younger ones for him to train, so how can he make headway? Someone even suggested to him that he should get married maybe the father might finally leave him alone when he sees that he is struggling with his own family. The Dad is married to multiple wives.

flokii:
Worsening economic situation.. those that lived and raised families up till 80s' can't compare life in Nigeria back then to what it is now.

Kobojunkie:
You folks have been blaming the economic situation since time immemorial for the plight of the poor. Face facts abeg! Foolishness is the major problem faced by the poor. And only those in it can help themselves.

VeryStingyMan:
■Funny how I agree with you on pretty much everything except this. Poor people globally don't choose to be poor. They are made poor because they are not prioritized by governments across the world, not just Nigeria. Take the US for example. Why would the American government decide to give more money in tax cuts and rebates to already rich billionaires rather than taxing the rich to solve their chronic homeless problem? Why would Nigeria continue to maintain a broken, elitist neocolonialist system which serves to cater for the elite and industrial complex like Dangote, Otedola and Elumelu rather than build a system that works for the other 99.99%? And when the poor complain, they are simply told that they don't work hard. But the system simply doesn't allow the poor to become rich... the system allows the rich to become richer.
■ Which is why Elon Musk and others who all came from relatively wealthy, comfortable homes can continue to be rich but an average homeless Joe on the street of Manhattan can't be a rich tech tychoon. Though I agree with you that poor people especially in Nigeria and Africa don't help themselves with the burden they carry like the number of wives and children they have but they aren't the inherent cause of their problem - the system simply gives Otedola's daughters and Elumelu's sons a platform than it does to the guy with 5 children who live in an uncompleted building next door.

Kobojunkie:
1. So what you are saying is that a poor man who goes ahead to have 5 children he is unable to fend for or send to school, is poor because his poverty was not prioritized by the government?

2. Are you suggesting then that a poor man should, in his poverty, compare himself and his situation to that of Otedola and Elumelu whose children are giving a platform, according to you, because they are not poor?

We need to begin holding the poor responsible for their own fate abeg! The excuses don too much.

VeryStingyMan:
■ Of course, the poor in African countries aggravate their own situation with the number of children they have but their situation in general are borne out the a deep-rooted lack of interest in their welfare by the society.
■ Also, the poor can't afford to compare themselves to the elites. The system makes sure that a poor person's child has to work thrice as hard as a rich person's child for only a fraction of what the rich person's child has. Is that what you call fate?

Digital204:
... So a lot of factors are responsible for poverty....
But is it a crime to be poor?
... No, no, no.
... Some poor people have become rich, true.
... Some rich people have also become poor suddenly, yes, true.
... These have all happened, yes we've seen it happen.
.... Life is a mystery. Don't be too rigid in your opinions, things happen, life happens, nothing is 100% guaranteed.
... Life is a mystery.
... Do your best, hope for the best. Be positive. Don't give up.

Exmilitant:
which government?My tenant who is an ogwu Aja (bricklayer helper) has six children. No one dey go school. All of them dey hawk different items for Aba road. All them stays in one room.
Na government cause am? I think say you Sabi book?

Kobojunkie:
Because wickedness runs directly through the veins of even the poor.

Digital204:

Ref: Taken from the book "Why People Are Poor" by David Samuel.

Digital204:

Ref: Taken from the book "Why People Are Poor" by David Samuel.

madridguy:
Blame our wicked government.

They created mass poverty to be able to control people.

madridguy:
Blame our wicked government.

They created mass poverty to be able to control people.

qtx:

A man cant be poor unless he is first poor in the mind and brain. This statement of mine I know is pregnant. But i cant talk more than that.

Wixje9wd:
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qtx:

A man cant be poor unless he is first poor in the mind and brain. This statement of mine I know is pregnant. But i cant talk more than that.

Digital204:
And a lot of people are suffering, really, but they still have large families and many children.