Nigeria, April 12 -- Dr. Tope Fasua, the special adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on economic affairs, was recently on Channels Television where he made some striking observations.

He cast doubt on the data which puts Nigeria's poor at about 100 million before adding some interesting insights on the Naira to Dollar exchange rate, particularly as it in implies value.

The greatest dilemma facing the Tinubu presidency right now is not to be found in the disquisitions or dissertations of his bevy of economists and technocrats. It lies in a simple distillation: that Nigerians are hungry and need to eat. They need food.

The aphorism that a hungry man is an angry man is very true and even among the hungry hordes in parts of the country ...