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...
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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...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has said that poverty remained one of the reasons many Nigerians got trafficked abroad. The...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday outlined the Federal Government’s plans to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030. The president, who spoke in a...
Forty per cent of the Nigerian population lives in poverty, the latest figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Monday revealed. The report titled,...
In as much it is inappropriate to underestimate the danger embedded in the escalation of Coronavirus, at the same time, the insensitivity of the government to...
The Federal Government has confirmed that the Northern part of the country is way ahead other regions in poverty and illiteracy levels. The Minister of State...
There is no other continent that has contributed so much foreign investments to world development at the time of Peace and Wars than the African Continent....
The Federal Government has reiterated its promise to lift at least 100 million Nigerians, out of the estimated 200 million of Nigeria’s population out of poverty...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has admitted that the country is far behind in the race to eradicate poverty. He added that the reason for this was...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has described the 2019 Nigeria economic update by World Bank as correct but an inconclusive analysis. BMO said the World Bank...
Given the lull and uncertainty in the global oil market at the moment, the World Bank Group has forecast the emergence of another recession in Nigeria....
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum and the Federal Government said on Friday they have commenced a Human Capital Development program that would lift 24 million Nigerians out...
President Muhammadu Buhari has blamed poverty situation in Nigeria for the loss of an estimated US$157.5 billion to illicit financial flows between 2003 and 2012. He...
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Tuesday expressed concern over the level at which participatory democracy had been haunted by illiteracy, poverty and unemployment in the...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has delivered a damning evaluation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise to use education to combat poverty. Reacting to Buhari’s...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT, Enough is Enough (EiE) and 6,721 concerned Nigerians have dragged the National Assembly Service Commission to court in...
President Muhammadu Buhari has told the incoming ministers that government would rely on them to help lift Nigerians from poverty and position them on the part...
When politicians failed you, professors failed you, bosses failed you, banks failed you, relatives failed you, pastors and imams failed you: who is going to deliver...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Daura, Katsina State, told Nigerians he would use his second term in office to improve the lives of Nigerians by...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has praised the President for lifting five million Nigerians out of the poverty bracket within a short time. The president had...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has again called out President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing his administration of ruining the country with misrule and grand cluelessness. Atiku, was...
Borno State Gvernor, Babagana Zulum, on Saturday, said poverty in the country has contributed immensely to the rise of insurgency in Nigeria. He said Book Haram...
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday said the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is creating the largest wave of poverty in human history. Atiku, who...
Presidential candidate of Young Progressive Party (YPP) in the 2019 elections, Kingsley Moghalu has blamed northern elites and politicians of encouraging poverty among the masses. Moghalu...
International magazine, The Economist has attracted the anger of the Buhari Media Organisation, BMO, over it’s latest poverty report on Nigeria. The Pro- President Muhammadu Buhari...
Nigerians have been rated as the poorest set of citizens in the world under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in the last four years. The...
President Muhammadu Buhari has again faulted previous administration ps for the current state of the nation. He said that the insecurity and poverty being experienced are...
The Statistician General of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale, said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) would soon commence the Nigeria Living Standard Survey (NLSS) to...
The President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government claims it has moved over 10 million Nigerians out of poverty into prosperity. This is despite the recent ranking of...
The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has called on Nigerians to shun divisive acts and work with the government to banish poverty from the country. Speaking on...
The level of poverty (productivity index) in Nigeria has maintained a constant rise, reaching its all-time high of 72 percent by August 2016. This is contained...
Nigeria’s Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has said about 110 million Nigerians are living in poverty, adding that two-tenth of the 110 Nigerians are living in abject...
