Hi Folks,

I was watching AIT News this evening and one of the captions was the plight of the widow in Nigeria and the difficulty they go through to pull themselves and their children through everyday necessities including feeding and schooling and I was wondering if it was possible to set up a social welfare system which would be specific for widows in nigeria. Would this be too hard for us to do? I wonder what government feels about this. A lady that was subsequently interviewed said that wickedness on the part of the inlaws would be responsible for the paucity/lack of help from them but I would reckon the reason to be the pervasive lack/poverty amongst these individuals. It is so hard to make enough naira only for it to be fast losing its value as the days turn into weeks and the weeks turn into months. However our government is not popular for living up to responsibilities. What can we do?