By Tunde Opalana To advance on the World Bank Group’s mission to end poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet it rely on strong data which is the bedrock for policy. Deon Filmer, Haishan Fu and Luis Felipe Lopez- Calva in the latest edition of the World Bank Newsletter said for 36 years, […]
By Tom Garba Despite its abundant human and natural resources, ranking as the sixth oil-producing country in the world, Nigeria’s population is living below standard with the northern region having a high level of poverty rate. The current economic downturns and crisis inflicting pains and brunts of poverty scourging the nineteen northern states, some elites […]
The Coalition of Unemployed Youths in Nigeria (CUYN) has hailed the Federal Government’s drive towards poverty alleviation across the country. The group said President Bola Tinubu through the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, is implementing some groundbreaking initiatives and interventions to better the lives of the common Nigerian. Speaking at a […]
By Temitope Adebayo The Director, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) Centre for African Studies, Nanyang Business School, Mr Amit Jain, has sounded a note of warning that over 35 million Nigerians are likely to fall into the poverty bracket. This, he said, can only be prevented if the federal government […]
…to ensure enrollment of 14m out-of-school children By Tom Okpe The House of Representatives is working on a framework that will lift 16.5m people out of poverty and ensure that over 14 million out-of-school Nigerian children are back to schools in the northern part of the country. The framework, which is in form of an […]
…confident of getting justice at Supreme Court By Tunde Opalana The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lamented that anger spurred by hardship and bitting poverty is pushing majority of Nigerians against the President Bola Tinubu – led All Progressives Congress (APC) government. The BoT observed that the nation is […]
The newly sworn-in Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, has assured of the federal government renewed commitment to lift 133 Nigerians out of poverty. Edu, at a meeting with heads of agencies under the ministry in Abuja, said this will be achieved through different interventions and initiatives aimed at reducing poverty. Assuring […]
By Joy Obakeye There are indications that more Nigerians risk becoming extremely poor this year if the Federal Government fails to proactively take steps to review the national minimum wage which is due by 2024. According to the National Bureau of Statistics in its 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Survey, 133 million people are multidimensionally […]
The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba, on Friday inaugurated the National Poverty Dashboard Situation Room (PDSR). Agba inaugurated the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) PDSR at the bureau’s headquarters in Abuja. He said the hub presents a veritable tool for a proper understanding of the poverty situation in Nigeria. […]
By Godwin Anyebe The Federal Government says it has earmarked about $7 billion within the last seven years in its efforts to pull 100 million Nigerians out of poverty through its National Social Investment Programme in the country. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiyya Farouq, stated this in a keynote […]
By Philip Clement The Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Amb. Mariam Yalwaji Katagum has reaffirmed that the Ministry and its Agencies committment to deliver President Muhammadu Buhari’s resolve on lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next ten years. The Minister disclosed this during a courtesy visit to her by […]
The minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, George Akume, has advised Nigerians to always celebrate President Muhammadu Buhari, particularly for lifting the country from the abyss of poverty to economic prosperity. READ ALSO: Nigeria is fast becoming a failed state under Buhari —… Daily Times Nigeria gathered that Akume made this known while addressing […]
Tinubu gave the advice on Friday in his Democracy Day message with the theme, ‘June 12: A milestone for democracy’. June 12 is celebrated annually to commemorate the annulment of June 12 Presidential election. According to the APC national leader, we must keep and nurture democracy, not for its own sake, but for ours. He […]
An additional 8.3 million people will fall into poverty in the Arab region due to the Covid-19 outbreak, a UN agency warned on Wednesday. Many Arab countries have recently adopted tighter restrictions in an effort to curb the spread of the new coronavirus that causes the potentially fatal respiratory disease. The steps include shutdowns of businesses and […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he is cconscious of the havoc poverty is wreaking on the family that he believes that poverty alleviation is central to safeguarding the integrity of our families This came as he advised Christian and Muslim leaders, and preachers generally, in the country to give more attention to issues that […]
True Prosperity International (TPI), an NGO, on Tuesday said that it would engage 3,000 Nigerian youths in skills that would make them self-reliant and generate income for themselves. The Founder of the NGO,Mr Morgan Orioha said in Owerri that the empowerment programme,which would commence on March 20th,was meant for Nigerian youths. According to him, the […]
‘You cannot be happy about 87 percent of poverty in Nigeria being in the north. You can’t be happy with millions of northern out-of-school children. You can’t be happy with nine states in the north contributing almost 50 percent of the entire malnutrition burden in the country’ the emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi Lamido has said. […]
Lagos – As the world commemorates the International Day for Persons Living with Disabilities on Tuesday, an NGO, Centre for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD), has described corruption as the major cause of poverty in Nigeria. Mr David Anyaele, the CCD Executive Director, made the assertion on Tuesday at a symposium to commemorate the 2019 Disability […]
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and the Federal Government have commenced a Human Capital Development (HCD) plan towards moving 24 million Nigerians out of poverty before 2030. The NGF disclosed this in a statement by its Head of Media and Public Affairs, Mr Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, on Friday in Abuja. Bello-Barkindo said that the plan was […]
Now Buhari has travelled outside the country again. He has travelled to Saudi Arabia, and from there, he will go to the United Kingdom. Does that show the trait of a good leader? Buhari keeps on travelling across the globe while Nigerians are wallowing in poverty, the National Chairman of Reformed All Progressives Congress, rAPC, […]