Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says 40 percent of his cabinet will be made up of women and youths.The former vice-president said his policy document for Nigeria, if he wins the 2019 election, is ready.He added that Nigeria became the world headquarter for poverty under incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari."Nigeria under Buhari is now the [...]
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More than 40 percent of “extremely poor people” in the world will be living in Nigeria and DR Congo by 2050, a report by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has revealed.In the 2018 goalkeepers report released Tuesday, the foundation said by 2050, Nigeria will have 152 million people in extreme poverty out of a projected population of 429 million.It blamed [...]
Ahead of her August 29, 2018 visit to Nigeria, British Prime Minister, Theresa May, remarked that 87 million Nigerians live on less than $1.90 a day, making Nigeria “home to more very poor people than any other nation in the world.” It is interesting how the statement attracted public attention almost as if it is a new discovery. The truth [...]
BY EKENE ODIGWE The British Prime Minister Theresa May’s poverty remark about Nigeria sparked a conversation of conflicting views across the country, but the fact remains that this is not the first time this has happened. Bill Gates in March this year, at the special and expanded National Economic Council held in Abuja, stated that the execution priorities of the presidency’s [...]
Theresa May, prime minister of the United Kingdom, says Nigeria is home to the highest number of "very poor people" in the world.Speaking in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday, May said Africa is home to a majority of the world's fragile states, and a quarter of the world's displaced people.She added that Africa has the highest number of poor people [...]
Nigeria has now taken over as the nation with the highest number of extremely poor people, a report by Brookings Institution has shown.Before now, India used to hold the position with a population of 1.324 billion people as against Nigeria's 200 million.According to the report, the number of Nigerians in extreme poverty increases by six people every minute."According to our [...]
The neighbourhood at Sangotedo, near Lagos, is graveyard-quiet, and so is his house. Wife and two kids had long gone to bed. At a table in a corner of the living room, where he normally writes because there is no spare room for a study, he is happily pounding the keys on his laptop when it struck. He buries his face [...]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has recounted his experience during doctoral degree programme at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).Speaking at the university's convocation ceremony in Abuja on Saturday, Obasanjo said he rejected favours to facilitate his studies.He said this is because he was determined to experience the academic process of obtaining his doctoral degree.The former president, who was awarded [...]
BY ADEMOLA AKINLABIWith a figure of 10.5 million, Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world, according to UNICEF.This may be underestimated as more children and parents are embracing informal education due to unemployment.Some out- of- school children are into petty trading activities to support their family, while others drop out due to broken homes.Below are some [...]
Jibrin Barau, senator representing Kano north, says poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.He said this on Tuesday while contributing to a debate on a motion entitled 'commemoration of the United Nations International day for the eradication of poverty''.The motion sponsored by Ali Wakili, senator representing Bauchi south, and 22 other legislators.Barau said there is a need to strengthen the [...]
The entire global community must approach poverty eradication with a sense of urgency, Amina Mohammed, deputy UN secretary-general, has said.Mohammed, in her message to the three-day 2017 integration segment of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), said that eradicating poverty remained the greatest global challenge.She called for a collective and comprehensive approach that recognises the multidimensional nature of the [...]
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance and the chairperson of Gavi board, says education is the strongest antidote and vaccine against poverty.Okonjo-Iweala, via a write-up on challenging Africa to achieving sustainbale development goals said "Vaccinations of 1.6 million children are halting an outbreak of measles in Cambodia"."In drought-stricken Somalia, 450,000 people are being immunized against the spread of deadly cholera. [...]
“If not for her, I would have left this country,” Moses Chukwudi, a foodstuff trader at Mile 12 Market, Lagos, says of his new marital status as he discusses the economic downturn in Nigeria.Chukwudi got married in November 2016 and planned to lavish his income – made from selling rice, beans, garri, palm oil, vegetable oil – on his bride, [...]
Ejike Mbaka, a reverend father and spiritual director of the Adoration Ministry, has lamented the effects of the country's economic recession on the masses, saying Nigerians may vote out President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.Mbaka, who supported Buhari's election, said it is high time the president understood that "things are going wrong".The Catholic priest in a recent message published by Punch, said [...]
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy, says Nigeria and the rest of the Africa must eradicate poverty to end instability.Speaking in an interview with Le Monde, a French newspaper, Okonjo-Iweala spoke on subjects ranging from climate change to development, economic aid and real jobs for the people of Africa.Okonjo-Iweala said it is imperative to reform [...]
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