The World Bank has raised a fresh concern over the rising poverty in Nigeria, saying that a staggering 75.5 per cent of rural dwellers live below the poverty line.The World Bank stated this in its ...

Nigeria’s agriculture story is often told with pride. We speak of hectares cultivated, yields improved, farmers mobilised, ...

Poverty and cultural norms have been identified as major contributors to Nigeria’s ongoing malnutrition crisis, despite the ...

Oil-rich Nigeria can’t seem to catch a break. From an unemployment rate forecast to rise to 33.5% by 2020, to a global pandemic that could push at least 5 million people into poverty and, a near 14% ...

For decades, Nigeria’s middle class symbolised stability, aspiration and economic balance, families that could afford decent ...

A twist has been introduced into the narratives about Nigeria’s growing poverty rate what with the claim by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited that fuel subsidy payment is to blame ...

Priors: IDRC Fellow at the Center for Global Development; Public Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics Studies that reflect the movement of poverty levels ...

The five richest men in Nigeria could bring nearly all Nigerians out of extreme poverty for one year, according to a new Oxfam report on inequality in the country. It's one of many stark conclusions ...