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 ...
The Socialist Workers League (SWL) has called on the Nigerian government to take decisive and practical steps to tackle the worsening insecurity and deepening poverty across the country, warning that ...
The Nigerian economy grew at a robust rate of 3.4% in 2024, the highest it has been since 2019 (except 2021 when the COVID rebound occurred). This should have been cheering news, worthy of ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The World Bank urged Nigeria to end import bans in order to lower food prices as it estimated that around 50% more Nigerians were ...
World Bank says Nigerians living below the poverty line since President Bola Tinubu-led administration came onboard increased steadily from 56 per cent in 2023 to 61 per cent in 2024, before peaking ...
Nigeria has no electricity. Or whatever Nigeria has should not be called electricity. It goes anytime and comes back anytime. The same sets of problems in electricity twenty, thirty years ago are ...
At the same time, the IMF has warned that Nigerians may face even tougher economic conditions in the near term as rising food and transportation costs continue to squeeze household incomes amid ...
Poverty has risen steeply in Nigeria even as Africa’s most—populous country undertakes reforms designed to deliver economic growth, according to a new report from the World Bank. The number of ...
A viral video showing adult supporters hailing 28-year-old Iniabasi Akpabio as "mama" while she shared APC-branded items has sparked condemnation.Condemnation has followed a viral video showing adult ...
A professor of the Faculty of Education at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Professor Tajudeen Adewumi Adebisi, has warned that Nigeria’s deepening mass poverty poses a grave threat to ...