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The UN Wants More of Your Cash Because Nigeria is Starving Again

Buck Valor
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Thursday, January 22, 2026
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The UN is back on its knees. It is shaking its tin cup. It is making that sad face it makes when it needs a few more billion dollars. This time, the story is Nigeria. The World Food Program says a million people are about to go hungry. They call it a catastrophic crisis. I call it another Tuesday in a world run by morons. We have seen this movie before. We know how it ends. The credits roll, and everyone stays hungry.

Let’s look at the players. First, we have the UN. They are the world’s most expensive middleman. They fly into disaster zones in white SUVs that cost more than your house. They stay in nice hotels. They write long reports with big words. Then they realize they ran out of money. How do you run out of money to feed people? It is literally their only job. It is like a fire truck showing up to a fire and saying they forgot to buy water. It is a joke, but nobody is laughing because the punchline is a million people with empty stomachs.

Then you have the Nigerian government. Nigeria is not a poor place. They have oil. They have gold. They have plenty of rich guys in fancy suits. But for some reason, the money never makes it to the north. Why? Because the guys at the top are too busy. They have to buy luxury cars. They have to build mansions in London. They have to make sure their cousins get good jobs doing nothing. They treat their own people like an annoying chore. It is easier to let the UN beg for scraps than to actually run a country. It is a perfect system of greed. The leaders steal the pie, and then they ask the world to pay for the crumbs.

And what about the rest of us? The donors. The big, rich countries. They love to talk about helping. They love to hold meetings. They love to post on social media about how much they care. But then they look at their wallets and get cold feet. Maybe they spent too much on a new drone. Maybe they gave all the money to some other war that looks better on the news. Hunger is boring. It does not have flashy explosions. It does not have a clear bad guy in a cape. It is just slow and quiet. It does not get clicks. So, the donors get bored and stop sending the checks. They move on to the next trend.

This is the cycle of human stupidity. We wait until the house is already ashes before we ask where the hose is. The UN knew this was coming. They always know. They watch the numbers go down. They watch the silos get empty. And they wait. They wait until it is a catastrophe because that is the only way to get people to pay attention. They need the drama. They need the sad photos. If they fixed the problem early, they would not get the big headlines. It is a business model built on misery.

Look at the rebels too. In the north of Nigeria, you have groups of guys with guns who think they are doing god’s work. They burn farms. They steal cows. They kill the people who grow the food. They want to start a new world, but they are too dumb to realize you cannot have a world if everyone is dead. They are the kings of nothing. They break everything and then wonder why there is nothing to eat. They are the perfect example of how ideology makes people stupid. They would rather rule a graveyard than live in a farm.

In the end, everyone is to blame. The Left will cry about it and do nothing. The Right will say it is not our problem and do nothing. The politicians in Nigeria will keep stealing. The UN will keep begging. And a million people will just sit there and wait for help that is probably not coming. We live in a world that can send a robot to Mars but cannot send a bag of grain across a border without losing half of it to bribes. It is pathetic. It is predictable. And honestly, it is exhausting to watch. We are a species of high-tech apes who still haven't figured out how to share our snacks. Don't act surprised when it happens again next year. It is the only thing we are actually good at.

This story is an interpreted work of social commentary based on real events. Source: ABC News

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