The latest ranking of countries with the highest unemployment rate has shown Nigeria at the top of the chart for the wrong reason. The World of Statistics in its latest release on Sunday via its verified Twitter handle ranked Nigeria high, indicating the country has the highest level of unemployment in the world at 33.3%. […]
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A middle-aged man, identified simply as Ezekiel, was electrocuted while trying to steal a high-tension wire in the Utako area of the Federal Capital Territory. The incident occurred on Saturday night. A commercial driver, who asked to be identified only as Hassan, told our correspondent on Sunday that Ezekiel sustained severe burns from the incident. […]
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A total of 40.1 per cent of Nigerians earn less than N377 daily, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The NBS made this known in its 2019 poverty and inequality report. According to the report, while four in every ten Nigerian earn less than ₦377 per day, about nine in ten individuals in […]
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A senior legal practitioner in Nigeria, Olusegun Bamgbose, has told President Muhammadu Buhari that he has nothing doing in the State House if he can’t eradicate poverty. According to him, extreme poverty in Nigeria is alarming and it’s assuming a new and dangerous trend. In a statement to newsmen, Bamgbose said “Extreme poverty in Nigeria […]
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Speaking at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York, on Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari says climate change remains one of the greatest challenges faced by the West African region. According to him, it has intensified poverty, terrorism and other vices in the region. He said, “Climate change remains one of the greatest challenges […]
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The federal government has boasted that it has moved 10.073million Nigerians from poverty to prosperity. The minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma made the claim Tuesday while speaking on arrangements for the 24th Nigerian Economic Summit (NES#24) held at the conference room of the ministry in Abuja. He said federal government […]
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NIGERIA – The minister of trade and investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, says there is no cause for alarm in respect to the recent global poverty report released by Brookings Institution – a report that said Nigeria has replaced India as the world’s poverty capital with six people slipping into poverty every minute. While responding to questions […]
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ECOWAS Parliament has appealed to Nigeria to put measures in place to address the issue that surround insurgency in the Northeast. Mr Ibrahim Sadiq, Chairman, ECOWAS Parliament delegation to Northeast Nigeria, made the appeal when he presented the report on the fact finding mission to the region. At the plenary on Friday in Abuja, he […]
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The UN says violence, displacement and hunger will drive record humanitarian needs in 2018, with nearly 136 million people worldwide in need of aid. The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said protracted conflicts in Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Yemen, the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar and natural disasters exacerbated […]
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More than 180,000 modern houses are to be provided free in all the 36 states of the country, according to an NGO — Africa National Development Programme (ANDP). The two-bedroom houses to be situated in an estate or scattered in different locations will have facilities such as schools, police stations, markets and hospitals. The ANDP, […]
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