OPINION: Is Nigeria the next Haiti?

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Poverty pummels the Island country just as ferocious hurricanes visit it from time to time with the fury and anger of a violated person. But a few people know that the highest per capita income in the world in 1789 was not Britain, Germany or the United States. 

It was Haiti’s plantation economy. As the oil age looks clearly to be coming to a close, and clever countries have used savings from oil to build future potential, it seems fair to wonder if Nigeria will be the next Haiti.

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The Tea Leaves, unless something dramatic happens, points to Nigeria travelling that sad highway. This reflection, frankly, and sadly, is a story of a personal recurring cry for a beloved country as the path to perdition has been persistently opted for. Can we save our country from being like Haiti, the economy that did not change, and literally died?