Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poverty in Nigeria comes in various forms: a lack of income and productive resources to sustain livelihoods; hunger and ...

Zacch Adedeji, has argued that Nigeria’s poverty situation would have been significantly worse if President Bola Tinubu’s ...

–Why hardship cannot be made to testify against the reforms that seek to dismantle the conditions that produced itBy Tanimu ...

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% ...

Two years ago, Bola Ahmed Tinubu was inaugurated as Nigeria’s 16th president, pledging to grow the economy to $1trn, eradicate extreme poverty, and overhaul the country’s security infrastructure to ...

By: Odiaka OlikaBetween December 2024 and December 2025, Nigeria’s headline inflation rate fell from 34.80 per cent to 15.15 per cent. Food inflation, the component that governs the lives of the poor, ...

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 ...

Ajegunle City, Lagos State Nigeria in 2018: Busy streets bustling with commercial activity. Shutterstock Studies that reflect the movement of poverty levels at a particular point-in-time attract a lot ...

Nigerians have been justifiably confused by conflicting poverty data presented by the Muhammadu Buhari administration and the World Bank. According to Buhari, his administration has lifted 10.5 ...

(Abuja) – Many survivors of sex and labor trafficking struggle with unaddressed health challenges, poverty, and abhorrent conditions upon their return to Nigeria. Nigerian authorities have failed to ...

Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with an estimated 87 million Nigerians, or around half of the country’s population, thought to ...