Wealth Ideology

A young woman went to her grandmother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her – her husband had cheated on her and she was devastated. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as soon as one problem was solved, a new one arose. Her grandmother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.

Poverty is one of the greatest challenges facing Nigeria and a recent scale has shown that unemployment, income inequality, are among the main causes of poverty in Nigeria and sustainable poverty eradication is unlikely to be achieved without the proper use of ICT. ICT plays a major role in all aspects of national life: in politics, in economic life, as well as in social and cultural development. It is rapidly transforming our lives, the way we do business, access information and services. It fuels the global economy. IT has played major roles in alleviating poverty in different many ways, especially in the lives of youths whose hopes were almost shattered after finishing school and not finding jobs.