Nigeria is not hungry because it has to be

Nigeria at the mercy of hunger amid abundant arable land

There is a particular kind of national failure that is hardest to forgive, not the kind born of poverty or limited means, but the kind that occurs in the presence of abundance. Nigeria has 70 million hectares of arable land, one of the most productive young populations on the continent, and rainfall

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