Governors from Nigeria’s North West region have appealed to the United Nations (UN) for assistance in tackling a number of issues including the security challenges plaguing...
A former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar has blamed the forex policy of the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the current poverty and economic hardship in...
The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has bemoaned the recent decision by the Central Bank to increase the customs exchange rate from N783...
The Nigerian govt, on Friday, again promised to lift 50 million Nigerians out of poverty, following in the same fashion of such promises by the former...
President Bola Tinubu on Saturday assured Nigerians his administration would come up with programmes and policies that would address poverty and insecurity in the country. The...
President Bola Tinubu has once again, insisted that there is no reason why Nigerians should be poor despite the abundant resources the country has been blessed...
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu says he was not elected by Nigerians to give excuses but to work hard to ensure the country is taken out of...
The management and staff of the North East Development Commission {NEDC} have been charged to change their mindset and attitude to work, with a warning that...
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, said on Monday the current administration would lift 133 million Nigerians out of poverty in the...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday in Paris, France, joined other world leaders on a consensus for redesigning the global financial architecture, which will favour poverty...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has once again accused President Muhammadu Buhari of destroying Nigeria in the last eight years by taking the country “from top...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja, claimed that his administration had delivered on the change agenda he promised Nigerians, especially in the area of affordable...
Despite the significant inflow of money into the coffers of Nigerian states, from the federation account, residents still face misery. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)...
The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Azare in Bauchi state, Dr Abubakar Dauda Katagum has lamented the prevalence of blindness in the...
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has identified reduction of poverty as one of the solutions to the country’s security challenges. Obi, who spoke at...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has slammed the All Progressives Congress (APC) for accusing the party of impoverishing Nigerians during its 16-year...
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has lamented the rise in the poverty rate in the country. A recent National Multidimensional Poverty Index Report by...
A report by the United Nations Humanitarian Commission says over 70 per cent of people in Katsina, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, are living...
The number of Nigerians classified as poor may rise as the World Bank raises the poverty line to $2.15 (N936.32) from $1.90 (N827.45) beginning this month....
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, has raised an alarm over the escalating rise in prices of food items in the country,...
The Nigerian Association of Economists (NAE), says 90 million Nigerians are currently living in extreme poverty due to bad economy and incompetence on the part of...
A report released on Thursday by a United Nations arm, UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has indicated that extreme poverty in Nigeria and the West...
The former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has blamed poor leadership as the cause of the high poverty, unemployment, and insecurity...
The Senate Committee on States and Local Government Administration, has expressed worry over the increasing poverty index in the country, noting that the development is putting...
Nigerian reality TV star, Khloe, real name Abiri Oluwabusayo has said that only poor people have a mindset that they can never undergo a cosmetic surgery....
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governors on Saturday reassured Nigerians of their commitment to improved living conditions in the country. The Chairman of the Progressives Governors’...
The Southern Youth Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (YOWICAN) on Friday charged President Muhammadu Buhari to address hunger and poverty in order to stop...
About 895 Federal Government contracts and 795 infrastructural projects currently ongoing in different parts of the country are part of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration’s plan...
Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo has said to achieve the high rate growth needed to ensure good-paying jobs and better opportunities for Nigerians, and meet...
The Federal Government has, once again, renewed its vow to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2025, after mapping out strategies with which to...
American recording artiste and music executive, Diddy, real name Sean Combs has disclosed the heartbreaking moment that made him never want to remain poor in his...
Nigeria’s Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Farouq, says the Federal Government has spent $5 billion to fight poverty in the...
More Nigerians are living in poverty as a result of the country’s rising unemployment, according to the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG). NESG said this in...
The World Bank has revealed that soaring inflation has driven an estimated seven million Nigerians into poverty in 2020 alone. This was contained in its development...
Claim: President Muhammadu Buhari made a bold claim on Saturday that his administration had lifted 10.5 million Nigerians out of poverty in the past two years....
The governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, on Friday, named poverty and illiteracy as some of the factors responsible for insurgency in the country. Zulum stated...
Rochas Okorocha, the Senator representing Imo West, has opined that the high level of poverty across the country is the reason for the disillusionment with the...
The current setbacks being faced by Nigeria in terms of corruption, poverty and insecurity could have been prevented if the legislature was carrying out its duties...
Tech consultant and investor, Victor Asemota, has defended bitcoin and cryptocurrency against claims made by Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has said over 120 million Nigerians are facing energy poverty despite the huge natural gas resources in...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Friday the priority of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty. Osinbajo stated this...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has said that the Federal Government plans to lift over 100 million Nigerians out of poverty...
In its bid to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, Angola is to benefit from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) intervention as the executive board of the international...
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says the problem of Nigeria is not restructuring but hunger and poverty which leads to insecurity in the country. Speaking on...
Nigeria, Africa’s biggest country by population with more than 200 million people, now has the largest concentration of the most indigent people in sub-Saharan Africa at...
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday told world leaders that Nigeria was still battling attacks by terrorists group Boko Haram and criminal bandits. A statement released Wednesday by...
Intolerance due to inherent and acquired diversities among citizens is expected of a country like Nigerians. It is believed that football, to some extent, unites Nigerians...
Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has once again berated Nigerian youths for placing much attention on the ongoing Big Brother Naija reality TV show to the...
The poor in Nigeria are continually stripped of subsidies that subside the existential hurt that comes with living in the poverty capital of the world. Petrol...