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Around the world, different countries face various issues such as rising debt or high mortality rates. Although some face more severe problems than others, any country has at least one current dilemma. One such country is Nigeria. Located in Africa, Nigeria is the continent’s most populated nation. While some of its former problems have been solved, others still remain. Nigeria’s unresolved issues are high poverty rate, corruption in the government, and poor health services. To begin, one current difficulty Nigeria faces is its large amount of civilians without homes. Over half of the population is in poverty, according to statistics, “Poverty in Nigeria has been a problem for more than 50% of the population in the last 10 years, with surges

There are quite a lot of negative outcomes from corruption. Money is lost, incompetent leaders easily come into power, and more unresolved issues are created. Godfatherism is one cause of such corruption. Battles for high political positions cost a lot of money and can become very violent. As a result, those wishing to have better campaigns against opponents have individuals, known as “godfathers”, use wealth and manipulation to get ahead. Since most godfathers’ payment is some form of control over the nation’s government, more and more corrupt officials find their way into positions of power. Some people will even use violence in their favor to better their chances of winning an election. Gangs and cults have received payment to ruin elections, “The leader of an armed gang whose primary stronghold stretches across part of Port Harcourt told Human Rights Watch that in 2003 he and numerous other cult and gang leaders had been paid between N3 million and N10 million ($23,000 to $77,000) each to ‘disrupt the election in favor of our governor [Peter Odili]…[w]e stood at the election grounds so people would not come [to vote],’ he said. ‘There was no election’” (“Criminal Politics: Violence, ‘Godfathers’ and Corruption in Nigeria”). Corruption is an ongoing problem in Nigeria that will take time to solve. It is especially difficult as well when the government is meant to stop the nation’s turmoil, and they are the cause of