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 ...

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

Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a Youtube video that it had been working in collaboration with the World Bank to adopt the latest International Labour Organisation guidelines for ...

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has decried the worsening poverty level in Nigeria, describing it as one of the nation’s greatest challenges. Atiku made the statement on his verified X handle on ...

Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, has described the poverty situation in Nigeria as one which calls for urgent and deliberate action. Obi urged all levels of ...

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 ...

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% ...

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 ...