Nigerians are worried that insecurity is fuelling a new poverty crisis in the country by disrupting livelihoods, displacing ...

At the time the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration took office in 2023, the inflation rate was at 22.41 per cent. However, the ...

Brethren, when a problem afflicts a people, one must seek its causes and pursue means of remedy. Among the noblest principles ...

Nigeria is a country of constant activity, but its economy appears sluggish, remaining outside the top fifty globally. The ...

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 ...

Senior Advocate of Nigeria Femi Falana says Nigeria cannot lead regional efforts against coups without first addressing internal drivers of instability.He made this position known as West Africa ...

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% ...

Nigeria continues to cement its status as the poverty capital of the world as more people continue to slip into extreme poverty. It was first revealed in June 2018 that Nigeria had overtaken India as ...

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 ...