Engineers, who were the leaders of the Underground Railroad, helped slaves who were running away by providing them with food, shelter, and sometimes jobs. They hid the slaves from people who were trying to catch them and return them to slavery.
The GDP per Capita, in Nigeria, when adjusted by Purchasing Power Parity is equivalent to 32 percent of the world's average.
Study has unveiled that poverty has increased in Nigeria, with about 100 million people living on less than a $1 (Â£0.63) a day, after all Nigeria experiences significant economic growth. (BBC News Africa, 2012) The effects of poverty in Nigeria include: high death rate, increased crime rate and illiteracy. Firstly, due to poverty, Nigerians experience a high death rate. Death rate is a measure of the total demise in a populace, scaled to the span of that populace, for every unit of time.