A political coalition known as the Big tent, yesterday, warned that the country is collapsing under the weight of poverty, insecurity, institutional decay, and elite failure.
Speaking on behalf of the coalition at a media briefing, Convener of The Big Tent, Prof. Pat Utomi, described the situation as an existential crisis requiring urgent civic action, further identifing this poverty as the most visible sign of leadership failure, noting, that 75 per cent of rural Nigerians now live in chronic poverty, with hunger ravaging the land.
However, Utomi proposed structural reforms including overhauling land tenure laws, empowering universities for extension services, and supporting agro-processing clusters to address it.
