Nigeria likes to boast that “we don’t carry last.” But when it comes to life expectancy, we are not just carrying last, we are digging our own grave. At 64 years, Nigeria sits disgracefully at the rock bottom of Africa’s life expectancy tables, rubbing shoulders with war-torn South Sudan, Ch
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