Monday, October 19, 2026 -A British journalist, Lowri Turner, has called on the UK government to cut its foreign aid to Nigeria.
In a video that has now gone viral, Lowri, while speaking on
the Channel 5 show in the UK, questioned the accountability of the funds sent
as aid to Nigeria. She argued that the £136 million sent to countries like
Nigeria is often lost to high-level corruption and fails to reach the ordinary
people who actually need it.
She said that a country like Nigeria with so many
millionaires and losing over $15 billion to corruption yearly, should not be
handed more foreign aid that cannot be accounted for.
She said the UK is facing severe domestic challenges,
hardworking British citizens cannot afford their energy bills or food and that
such aids to countries like Nigeria need to be cut short.
She said the UK government has a greater responsibility to
take care of its own citizens before sending millions abroad.
‘’We currently give Nigeria £136 million a year. They have
eight and a half thousand millionaires there, and they lose approximately $15
billion a year in corruption. So, we are giving money to a country that has a
great number of wealthy people in it and this money will be fuelling the
corruption, so I don't think we should be giving them aids.
There is no doubt aid funnels corruption in certain
countries. It also infantilizes them. If you ask some people in African
countries, they say ‘’We don't want white saviour complex'. We want to be able
to build our own economies''
She wondered why the Nigerian government would continue to
require aid from foreign countries when it boasts of so many
millionaires.
Her submission has sparked a debate online.
Watch the video of her speaking below
British TV anchor slams UK Gov’t over financial aid to Nigeria, a country with so many millionaires (WATCH) https://t.co/kbJrUmR1hz
— DAILY POST 🇳🇬 (@dailypost_ng) October 19, 2026
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